The San Francisco Examiner (6/18/92) reports the following
AIDS-related Hollywood movies in the works:

-  Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs") will begin
   filming "Probable Cause" in September for TriStar Pictures.
   It's about a homophobic attorney who defends a lawyer fired
   from his job because he has AIDS.  Bill Murray and Daniel
   Day-Lewis are reportedly targeted for the leads.

-  Propaganda Films' "Good Days" is also a coutroom AIDS drama,
   with an original script by David Leavitt ("The Lost Language
   of Cranes", to be directed by (openly queer) John
   Schlesinger ("Midnight Cowboy").

-  Columbia Pictures' "Cure" will be directed by Francis
   Coppola, from Diane Johnson's screenplay about the search for
   an AIDS cure.

-  "Blue Earth", produced by Howard Rosenman ("Father of the
   Bride"; "Common Threads"), is a true story about a Chicago
   fast-tracker who returns to his hometown and then learns he
   has AIDS.

-  Jonathan Kwitny's upcoming book, "Acceptable Risks," about
   AIDS activists' fight to bring unapproved pharmaceuticals to
   patients, is currently in development at Warner Bros., as a
   Spring Creek production.

The article also mentions that other projects "languish in
development hell," like Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart,"
which Barbra Streisand still wants to film "despite her
clashes with the playwright", and Randy Shilts's "And the Band
Played On", which is "floundering" at Home Box Office...
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