| Producer David Puttnam was impressed by Harry Nilsson's song "1941" and asked writer Ray Connolly to create a screenplay based on it. The resulting film, That'll Be the Day, does not, however, closely resemble the story in the song. (Source: Enigma: David Puttnam, the story so far and Ben Paxton-Crick)
Ray Connolly was a newspaper writer for the Evening Standard and the Sunday Times in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Connolly write the screenplays for the films That'll Be the Day and Stardust. Connolly's novels include Trick Or Treat? and Newsdeath. Visitor Comments: |
