![]() ![]() “When we first screened the pilot it was at Mark’s house and it’s like 30 guys and it’s a tougher group – they’re a tougher group, no offense. “The last thing is Mark’s group - how they first responded because there are pieces of them here,” Ellin recalled. Eventually terms were reached according to The Hollywood Reporter: Piven got $5 million and the quartet $2 million each in a modestly budgeted $30 million production. Without Mark, I don’t think we’re doing this movie.”Įllin had procrastinated for years on devising a screenplay then as production neared, the four principals balked at being paid less than Jeremy Piven whose profane, volcanically temperamental agent Ari Gold – a stand-in for Emmanuel - was the show’s signature player. Mark has been real smart about when to get involved and when to let Doug do his thing and when he needed to come in and be our closer. Mark was the one who was really instrumental in motivating Doug and finding people that wanted to make the movie. Because I think we all weren’t sure if there was a market for it or an appetite for it. Noted Connolly, “Mark, I think really kind of - pardon my language - lit the fire under Doug’s a– to get going on the movie. But Mark’s rise – he’s never struggled! But we wouldn’t have a show if Vince’s career didn’t have its ups and downs.” It was important for me to make it New York because I don’t know anything about Boston and I could bring in stuff about my friends and family. There was a donkey in Mark’s crew that I didn’t know but again name wise. Mark has a Johnny Drama who is I would say probably closest to the guys who are in the group. ![]() They’re very different types of guys, they’re very different kinds of actors. Initially,” Ellin added, “ it started out to be ‘Mark’ for the series - ‘Let’s find who the next Mark Wahlberg is!’ But when Adrian was cast, it went very different. “When Eli Manning didn’t show up for a cameo, Mark called Tom Brady. “Mark’s biggest contribution was to allow us to use what we wanted to use of his life and to come in any time we needed a big favor,” Ellin said. Years ago Wahlberg told me that ENTOURAGE was actually a fairly sanitized version of the rough house atmosphere that surrounded him before he settled down. When I met LeBron James seven years ago, he said, ‘This is my E, this is my Drama, this is my Turtle, guys who I can trust.’” Especially for guys from humble beginnings, they want to surround themselves with people who were there from the beginning - they trust them. Said Ellin, sitting next to his four guys at Beverly Hills’ Montage Hotel, “The premise of an entourage and why you see it with athletes and movie stars, is when someone makes it like Vince, the bottom feeders come out. Ellin kept ENTOURAGE running for eight seasons and now, after much consternation and angst, four years after the show’s demise, the gang’s back but on the big screen Wednesday. Wahlberg and his agent Ari Emmanuel persuaded Doug Ellin to create a show and the characters, led by rising movie star Vincent Chase (Adrian Garnier), his pals E (Kevin Connolly) who became his manager, his actor brother Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon) and the gang’s mascot Turtle (Jerry Ferrara). ![]() The show about a movie star from Queens, NY, and his homeboys was, of course, inspired by Mark Wahlberg’s transition from Marky Mark of music and Calvin Klein skivvies fame to becoming a Hollywood player. From its start as a hit HBO series ENTOURAGE has dealt in fantasy as much as any kind of Tinseltown reality.
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