Article: "Brando's Autumn On Hold as Strike Looms", 2001

March 21, 2026

“Brando’s Autumn On Hold as Strike Looms”

by Fox News, Jan 10, 2001

[A special thanks to LeighAnn “the Lamb” for forwarding us this article!]

Marlon Brando’s big comeback was meant to be as the star of a movie adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Autumn of the Patriarch“. Sean Penn was supposed to direct Autumn, but two obstacles have occurred, says screenwriter and producer Jerzy Kromolowski.

“First there’s the whole issue of the strike. Second, Garcia Marquez has been very sick. So the whole thing is on hold. I don’t know if it will ever happen. It’s too bad, the part was written specifically for Brando.”

Kromolowski and Penn who collaborated on The Pledge, which opens January 19th are nevertheless going ahead with another project, William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.

“Oh you know Hollywood,” Kromolowski told me. “A studio executive actually thought the book was written by a friend of mine named William Faulkner. He said, You tell your friend Bill Faulkner.” I couldn’t believe it. Faulkner and Hemingway are the only American novelists to win the Nobel Prize.

“For years Faulkner’s daughter wouldn’t give the rights to the book. So I wrote the script on spec and showed it to her. She said, ‘Bless you, you got it right.’ It’s a black comedy.”

As I Lay Dying may also be affected by the looming Hollywood strike, however. “It’s a summer shoot, down in Oxford, Mississippi, mostly outdoors. If we can’t shoot it this summer, we have to wait.”

Copyright FOX News, 2001.

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