A film that never was, fought for by two rebels with a typewriter.
The story of how Rudy Wurlitzer and Alex Cox worked on six drafts of a feature screenplay titled ZERO TOLERANCE, about the Contra War in Nicaragua...
Direction
Cox directing himself dissecting his own failure — peak meta.
Writing
Wurlitzer's unproduced drafts sound better than most finished films.
Director
Alex Cox
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cox was blacklisted after Walker (1987) tanked; this doc proves it wasn't his imagination.
Rudy Wurlitzer also wrote Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid — the '70s golden boy of doomed American myths.
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