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Chapter 4 - His Name Is McG, What?
 Soon thereafter, Goldberg received another call from Barrymore. "Drew said there was someone she wanted me to meet," Goldberg says. "When she said, 'his name is McG,' I said, 'what?'"Deciding on a director for this film was not easy given that, as Barrymore tells it, the producers had high expectations. Indeed, a great deal of pressure would rest on the shoulders of the person who would be chosen to helm the big-screen adaptation of this beloved pop culture confection.
"We were looking for someone who could balance the visionary style, the action, the comedy, all of the colorful characters and the heart. Because," insists Barrymore, "this film has a heart."
Although McG's not having previously directed a feature film made him an unlikely candidate, the commercial and video director's persistence prevailed, and a meeting was set for him to meet with Barrymore and Juvonen. "I was just praying to hear someone convey all the things that, as a producer, I felt responsible for making happen," explains Barrymore. "McG just said everything I had dreamed and hoped I would hear a director say."
After the meeting, Barrymore and Juvonen were convinced that McG was the right man for the job. They thought that persuading Goldberg and the studio brass to select McG would be a challenge-until the young director dazzled them, too.
"McG came in and did the entire movie on his feet: scene by scene, shot for shot," says Goldberg of their meeting at Sony Pictures. "He was extraordinarily impressive."
"I went in there and went nuts," exclaims McG. "I stayed up really late the night before and mapped out the entire thing on index cards. I was bouncing around and listening to songs that I found particularly inspiring until I finally got to a place where I was ready to act out my take on the film. I wanted to approach the Angels as if they were three very similar women," he explains. "They would be three women of extraordinary intelligence and beauty and extreme physical prowess-but each a product of a distinctly different environment."
For her part, Barrymore was spellbound watching McG captivate a room full of people with his vision. "It felt like a historical moment in my life," she recalls. Leonard Goldberg says that McG's performance that day was nothing short of "amazing."
"This guy had such an incredible take on this movie," Columbia Pictures Chairman Amy Pascal remembers.
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