It was to be a $48 million film, the biggest U.K. My great adventure had begun.Įvents moved fast and soon the movie was in pre-production. Within days he’d snapped up the movie rights for his DreamWorks SKG and I was flying to Hollywood for a script meeting. It was Steven Spielberg, speaking from his car. The moment I’d finished writing my novel Tulip Fever the phone rang. He falls in love with the wife, Sophia, and they decide to run away together, gambling on tulip bulbs to make their fortune. So I made up a story about an elderly merchant, his trophy wife and a handsome young artist who arrives to paint their portrait. It was the first great speculative bubble, a foretaste of the dot-com and property bubbles, and I thought it would make a marvelous plot for a novel, demonstrating, as it did, the human capacity for self-deception, greed, and lust for beauty. Huge fortunes were made and lost as people made bets on what color the blooms would be - the most valuable being “broken” or striped petals. The whole country was gripped by a craze for gambling on tulip bulbs - “Tulip mania,” it was called. When I started my research, I discovered that something extraordinary happened around 1636. Paris Hilton Reveals Why 'South Park' "Upset" Her, Pretending to Vote for Donald Trump in New Memoir
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