Editing Roger Corman (section)

=== Working for major studios ===
Corman said, "For ten years as an independent I could get financing for $100–$200–$300,000 pictures. Everything had been interesting, artistically satisfying, economically satisfying. But I decided I was going nowhere and wanted to move directly into the business. So I accepted a contract with Columbia."<ref name="columbia" />

In August 1965, Corman announced he had signed a contract with United Artists to make two films over three years. He also signed with Columbia to make a Western, ''The Long Ride Home'', based on a script by Robert Towne.<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|155292242}}|author=Martin, B.|date=August 2, 1965|title=Movie Call Sheet|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

He was announced for a number of other projects at Columbia: the biopic of [[Robert E. Lee]], an adaptation of ''[[Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]'', an adaptation of Kafka's ''The Penal Colony'', and a script by novelist Richard Yates about the [[Battle of Iwo Jima]].<ref name="Corman p125">Corman 1990, p. 125.</ref><ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|116987235}}|author=P. B.|date=September 12, 1965|title=Horror with a rich, happy ending|work=The New York Times}}</ref> He intended to make ''The Deserters'' for UA, from a script by Wright, but that was not made either.<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|155331846}}|author=Martin, B.|date=December 31, 1965|title=Menotti opera to be filmed.|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

He later reflected, "Every idea I submitted was considered too strange, too weird; every idea they had seemed too ordinary to me. Ordinary pictures don't make money."<ref name="columbia"/>