Film producer Brian Grazer let Foxcatcher opportunity slip by

Brian Grazer (Reuters)

Movie mogul Brian Grazer passed on the chance to make hit film Foxcatcher after the project was pitched to him a decade ago while he was relieving himself behind a bush in the Amazon.

The producer behind films like Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind and Frost/Nixon was drunk at an illegal boxing match deep in the Brazilian rainforest when he wandered off to find a place to pee when he realised he had been followed.

He recalls, "I start to pee in the bush and this guy comes over and he starts pitching me a movie... I just kinda blow him off a little bit... I never thought about it ever again.

"Flash forward one decade... and I'm told by a bunch of friends that I'm in the (New York) Post, The Hollywood Reporter, TMZ, a bunch of publications and things... because there was a movie that was made based on that pitch.

"The guy that pitched it to me... turned it into a movie called Foxcatcher, starring Channing Tatum... That was pretty weird."

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