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Lemony Snicket author behind Jim Carrey's $211 MILLION movie A Series of Unfortunate Events exposes secret behind-the-scenes scandals - and the shocking antics of 'raving lunatic' execs who made his life hell
The author of A Series of Unfortunate Events - which was turned into a movie starring Jim Carrey - has written for the first time about the surreal arguments behind the scenes.
The author behind the famed books Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events has lashed out at the Hollywood executives behind the movie adaptation of his iconic tomes, branding them 'utter, gallivanting, wide-grinned, swerving lunatics.' Two decades after the Jim Carrey and Catherine O'Hara-led film was released, writer Daniel Handler is now accusing movie executives of chewing him up and spitting him out, denying him his fee, and laying bare his accounts of bitter behind-the-scenes tensions on the big-screen hit. The 2004 movie, starring Carrey, O'Hara, Billy Connolly, Jennifer Coolidge, and Meryl Streep, with Jude Law narrating as Lemony Snicket - grossed $211 million worldwide and even won an Oscar for Best Makeup.
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