Much like all of our customer call centers and engineering jobs, Hollywood is beginning to move to India. Well, that’s if you consider the writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull to be a suitable stand-in for Hollywood. Fortunately, I do. So, to restate, Hollywood is moving to Bollywood.
Paul Schrader has decided to make a Bollywood action movie in Mumbai as his next movie. According to THR, the writer/director finds Hollywood a “barren, barren place.” Part of the reason he probably thinks this is that he hasn’t had a hit or even released anything good in more than ten years. His last film was The Walker in 2007. Enough said. If Hollywood is a barren place, part of the reason is that guys like Schrader are making fewer Raging Bulls and more Forever Mines.
Schrader thinks things will be better in India and plans to make Extreme City. It is about an American man who travels to India and gets involved with gangsters. The dialogue will be in English and Hindi and, true to Bollywood form, will include musical numbers. This sounds to me like a former major leaguer heading to Japan to extend his career. It’s not where the top players go, but someone on the downside can squeeze a little more playing time out.
