Henri-Georges Clouzot [SEP] place of birth
and two feature films in the 1960s. Clouzot wrote several unused scripts in the 1970s and died in Paris in 1977.
Biography.
Biography Early years.
Henri-Georges Clouzot was born in Niort, France, to mother Suzanne Clouzot and father Georges Clouzout, a book store owner. He was the first of three children in a middle-class family. Clouzot showed talent by writing plays and playing piano recitals. In 1922, Clouzot's father's bookstore went bankrupt and his family moved to Brest, France,
as shot entirely in "cinema verite fashion".
Production Pre-development Obtaining the license.
Before the actual production could take place, William Friedkin had to resolve the problem with licensing, because Henri-Georges Clouzot did not own the rights for the intellectual property. It was owned by the novelist Georges Arnaud:
Upon Friedkin revealing his intentions to Clouzot, Clouzot was surprised Friedkin wanted to reimagine "Wages of Fear" because of enormous praise he had received at the time for his two recent pictures. Friedkin offered Clouzot