Subject: ‘Hatfields’ was 30 years in the making Thu May 31, 2012 10:31 am
History’s record-breaking “Hatfields & McCoys” took so long to get made that Burt Lancaster — who died in 1994 — was once set to star in the role Kevin Costner plays. But executive producer Leslie Greif never gave up during his decades-long slog to get his labor of love on the air. “It took me 30 years of knocking on every door,” says Greif, the CEO and founder of Thinkfactory Media. “They’d say, ‘We love you, but don’t mention ‘Hatfields’ again.’ ”
