The Kentucky Fried Movie
The Kentucky Fried Movie is a 1977 American anthology comedy film directed by John Landis.
David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams made the rounds of the Hollywood studios with the concept for Kentucky Fried Movie and were rejected by all of them, being told that audiences didnt like movies composed of sketches. Since the three believed in their material, which they had honed in front of the audiences with their improvisational troupe Kentucky Fried Theater, they decided to make the movie on their own.A wealthy real estate investor offered to finance the film if they would write a script. After completion of the screenplay, the investor had second thoughts and decided he did not want to finance the film alone. He said he would try to attract other investors if the three filmmakers would produce a tenminute excerpt of the film, which he would finance. When the trio presented a budget of the short film to the investor, he backed out. ........
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