Dan Gilroy has been around the business ? first as a reporter for Variety, then as a screenwriter (?Reel Steel,? ?The Bourne Legacy,? the scrapped Tim Burton Superman movie) ? long enough to be very aware of all this. But he?s also aware of the trick to keep a project from being tainted by a power hungry star (or studio). And Gilroy pulled it off with ?Roman J. Israel, Esq.? (opening in theaters on Wednesday).
?I've never written so specifically for an actor that if they passed on it I wouldn't have done it,? Gilroy told Business Insider. ?I always had a list of people I would have followed up with. This one I did not. I felt very strongly that the character is somebody who believes deeply in things, he's someone who believes there's something bigger than him, and Denzel is a guy who in real life believes in something bigger than himself. Him welding to that character was a quality I wouldn't be able to find in another actor. I felt very strongly about that.?
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