Daily Variety, February 27th, 2006
Assembling a passionate team can be the best defense against misfortune, as Simon Channing Williams learned when confronted with not one, but two potentially disastrous setbacks to "The Constant Gardener."
After 2 1/2 years of pre-production and the option on John Le Carre's novel about to lapse, director Mike Newell suddenly bowed out to direct the fourth "Harry Potter" pie.
"We were putting up a serious amount of money for such a small company," Channing Williams admits, "and if the movie had never happened it would have bust us, I think. We were absolutely on the line here."
But Channi...
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