Minnie Driver trashes disastrous Grosse Pointe Blank script: It just wasnt funny

Minnie Driver is looking back at the ’90s.The actress, 54, revealed that her 1997 action comedy movie “Grosse Pointe Blank” was “revolutionary” to her.On Wednesday’s episode of SiriusXM’s “This Life of Mine with James Corden,” Driver confessed that the project was almost completely improvised because the original script was “disastrous.”“Grosse Pointe Blank” stars John Cusack as a hitman who returns home for his 10-year high school reunion and reconnects with the ex-girlfriend (Driver) he still has feelings for.“We were making [“Grosse Pointe Blank”] and the script isn’t really that good, and everyone knows the script isn’t really that good, but it’s this great idea,” she told Corden.

“So we shot a couple of days and I remember it wasn’t really that it was disastrous, but it just wasn’t funny.”The leads then decided to make a change.“So [Cusack] went to Joe Roth, who was then head of Disney, and said, ‘Can we just improvise? Will you just give us a week and watch the dailies and tell me if you don’t think that it’s great?’ And George Armitage, who was the director, bless his heart, was kind of forced to go along with that.”In a 2016 interview, Armitage admitted as much, calling the movie “collaborative” before adding, “We had everybody improvising.We shot so much film on that movie.

Everybody was so into what they were doing.”As Driver put it, “We improved the whole thing.”“It felt like we were going to go up in flames every single day,” the “Speechless” star recalled.Despite the shaky start, the film was well-received by critics, and the comedy’s dark humor led the project to gain a cult following in the years since.Driver credited the decision to improvise with making the film “funnier and funnier and more sort of rooted in the insanity of the story.”“The Assessment” alum also took a moment to credit Cusack for bringing her on board the movie.“I got sort of vaulted ...