![]() How many people did you see for the main roles, and how did you ultimately land on Alicia Silverstone for Cher? Then I looked at what could make the bones for the present day high school teenagers, and if I ever thought like, wait, how would this happen, I would just go back to “Emma” and there were the answers. I loved it when I read it in college - it’s the most modern story with the most perfect character, the most lovable, flawed person that you’re rooting for. And here’s how it could be a feature.” I wrote the first few drafts for them and then I started thinking, what would be the three-act story that would work for her, and I started to think of longer forms that had positive characters, and that’s when I thought of Jane Austen and “Emma” and reread that. It started out as a pilot for 20th Century Fox and things weren’t happening and I was annoyed and I switched my agent and I got this guy, Ken Stovitz, and TV people had passed on my pilot, and I gave him things I had written recently and he read that and he said, “this should be a feature.” We went back to Fox and said, “here’s the material that you already own because the TV people have it. I said, “alright, but can I make them a little wacky?” And they said, “yeah.” So then I started combining what I was fascinated with, with what they were looking for and sort of developed the Cher character. ![]() I’m very curious about how that could be, so I started to think about a character that would be so happy and sure things would work out and what would their life look like? I started playing around with that, and I went into the studio to pitch a TV idea I had and they told me all these people came in pitching stories about young people that were the nerds and the depressing people and they wanted to do something about the “in” crowd. Positivity fascinates me - I don’t understand it. Then, I remember reading “Gentlemen prefer Blondes” and how she just assumed all men were in love with her and someone that’s imperfect narrating the story. I was like, “what do I want to do? What makes me happy?” I was thinking about “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and the character not being aware when people were mad at him, it just didn’t occur to him that everybody wasn’t okay with him and didn’t like the same things he did. Heckerling: Pretty much I was going, “it’s all over now, I did a movie that made a bunch of money, which was ‘Look Who’s Talking’ and my life is over.” And I had to make a sequel, and I was like, “nothing good is ever going to happen again.” You get offered stuff that you don’t like or get pressured to do something you don’t want to do, but when you’re not offered stuff, you get mad. TheWrap: How did you get involved with the movie 25 years ago - tell me about the process of how it all started. Read TheWrap’s Q&A with Heckerling below. Since then, it has developed a cult following and has been followed by a spin-off TV sitcom, a musical and a series of books. “Clueless” hit theaters in 1995 and grossed $56.1 million in the United States. It followed a group of Beverly Hills High School teenagers navigating popularity, love and life together. “Clueless” starred Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Paul Rudd and Donald Faison, and was written and directed by Heckerling. I just wanted this fake world that you would see in a comedy of manners about the turn of the century - something more beautiful and happy than what really is.”Īlso Read: 'Clueless' Mystery-Drama Series Reboot in the Works at CBS TV Studios “It wasn’t like I was doing something that was based on anything real, I was making up a world that I liked and that’s the way I want the world to be,” Heckerling told TheWrap about why she made the film. Ultimately, Heckerling wanted to do a film about the “in” crowd while also painting the world in the way that she wanted to see. It’s been 25 years since “Clueless” hit the big screen, so director and writer Amy Heckerling spoke to TheWrap about how the film came together, where she thinks Cher would be now and that controversial love story between Cher and her stepbrother Josh.
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