Grammy-winning rapper Eminem has stepped forward to remember late filmmaker Curtis Hanson.
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Los Angeles police were called to a home in the Hollywood Hills just before 5 p.m. on reports of a medical emergency, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Tony Im said. “Confidential” followed in the “retro noir” tradition of Roman Polanski’s masterpiece “Chinatown” (1974), but Hanson said he had set out to conjure the tone of director Nicholas Ray’s Hollywood-set noir “In a Lonely Place” (1950), with Humphrey Bogart as an unstable screenwriter suspected of murder.
Curtis Hanson, who won a screenwriting Oscar for “L.A”. “He died peacefully in his sleep”.
Actors and celebrities were quick to pay tribute to Hanson.
“Curtis Hanson believed in me and our insane idea to make a rap battle movie set in Detroit”, rapper Eminem said in a statement obtained by the Hollywood Reporter.
Hanson was born in Reno Nevada on March 24, 1945.
“It was the era of mystery and glamour”, Hanson said in an interview with The New York Times promoting the film, “an era when everything started in that postwar boom that’s still very much with us – the freeways, the idea and growth of suburbia, television, the start of the tabloid press”.
“So sad to hear about Curtis Hanson. great director. great man. Riding that river with him was one of the greatest gigs of my life”, tweeted Kevin Bacon, a co-star in “The River Wild“.
The director has films like “The River Wild“, “Wonder Boys”, “8 Mile” and “In Her Shoes” to his credit. “I’m lucky I got to know him”, Eminem said in a statement to Billboard.
Hanson found commercial and critical success in the 1990s thanks to films such as “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” and “L.A. Confidential“, which he also directed.
Hanson was lauded for taking James Ellroy’s massive novel “L.A”.
Basinger also won the best supporting actress Oscar.
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“Curtis Hanson believed in me and our insane idea to make a rap battle movie set in Detroit”, Eminem said in a statement.
