How ‘Dear Mr. Brody’ Filmmakers Used Thousands of Letters to Recount a Hippie Millionaire’s Quest to Give Away His Inheritance
thewrap.comcollection can be found in Columbia University’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, which become fully accessible to researchers in the next year or so.In an interview with TheWrap, Maitland and Glassman discussed the challenges of telling Brody’s story, the crucial letter they almost didn’t open, and the message they hope audiences will take away from “Dear Mr.
Brody.”How did you come across the letters, and what was the path from that discovery to “Dear Mr. Brody”?Melissa Robyn Glassman: I used to work for [executive producer] Ed Pressman.
I headed out to LA where he has a storage unit, which houses some really cool things from his 80-something films over a 30 year period.
I noticed that there were these boxes up on the shelves that just said “Brody,” and I opened them to find that they were [full of letters] all addressed to the same person, this Michael Brody, Jr.
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