Paramount Home Entertainment will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of director James L. Brooks’ Oscar-winning film adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s 1975 novel, Terms of Endearment, on Nov. 14 with a newly-minted 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack release.
Not only did Brooks win the Oscar for Best Picture as the producer, but he hit the trifecta with Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay wins as well. Shirley MacLaine won Best Actress and Jack Nicholson, for his performance as Garrett Breedlove — which was turned down by both Burt Reynolds and Paul Newman — won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
All that gold. All those wins. And Terms of Endearment almost didn’t get made.
The film was optioned by Paramount in 1980, who hired Brooks to write the screenplay. He delivered the script sometime in 1982, but Paramount balked at the budget and the film went into turn-around.
Brooks landed ever so briefly at United Artists with a production deal, but that too blew up … so back to Paramount and with the help of some outside financing the film finally went into production in the spring of 1983 with Brooks now directing and producing.
Three months later the production wrapped and the finished film was released theatrically at Thanksgiving of the same year … the rest, they say, is history.
Bonus features include vintage commentary (previous Blu-ray release) and the newly-prepared “Filmmaker Focus with James L. Brooks.”
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