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====Roger Donaldson==== Donaldson was an Australian who had forged a career as director in New Zealand with ''Sleeping Dogs'' and ''Smash Palace''. The latter was the first New Zealand film to obtain a distributor in the U.S. Donaldson said he met with de Laurentiis to discuss filming a sequel to ''Conan the Barbarian''. Donaldson worked on a new script for that film. "Some time during that period I mentioned that I thought The Bounty sounded like an interesting project", Donaldson said. "Well, when I finished with the Conan script, he didn't really like it so I figured, well, I'm finished with Dino."<ref name="phil"/> The producer then offered him ''The Bounty'' despite not having seen any of the director's films and the fact that his biggest budget to date had been $1 million.<ref name="los">{{cite news|title=MOVIES: DIRECTOR ROGER DONALDSON: NEW MASTER OF 'THE BOUNTY'|author=Mann, Roderick|work=Los Angeles Times|date=6 May 1984|page=R 22}}</ref> (De Laurentiis later says he gave Donaldson the job on the basis of ''Smash Palace''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mogul on the Bounty|author=de Laurentiis, Dino|work=The Guardian|date=12 May 1984|page=8}}</ref>) "Making the movie was something that, initially, I wasn't sure I wanted to do", said Donaldson. "I thought it might be perceived as some sort of a remake. But I looked at it and decided I'd do it as long as I could do something completely on my own, not a remake at all, but based much more on fact—something to set the record straight."<ref name="phil"/> "I saw it as an intense personal drama about two friends who have a tragic and violent falling out—a drama in which your sympathies change as events change", Donaldson said. "When you leave the movie, I hope that deep down you feel that you've understood a relationship between two men."<ref name="phil">{{cite news|title=HE BASED HIS 'BOUNTY' ON THE FACTS|author=Lyman, Rick|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=13 May 1984|page=I 2}}</ref>
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