Andrew George Vajna (born August 1, 1944) is a Hungarian film producer, originally from Budapest. August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Budapest (pronounced BOO-dah-pesht, IPA ), the capital city of Hungary and the countrys principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre, has more than 1. ...
Vajna has produced numerous films, including Escape to Victory, the Rambo series, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Rambo is a trilogy of popular action films based on the characters created by David Morrell in his novel First Blood. ... Die Hard: With a Vengeance, the third film in the Die Hard series starring Bruce Willis as policeman John McClane, adds Samuel L. Jackson as Zeus Carver, Willis reluctant partner. ... Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (commonly abbreviated T3) is a 2003 movie directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, and Kristanna Loken. ...
ANDREW G. VAJNA: I started with Evita about 10 years ago, when I was still at Carolco and when my partner and I wanted to make the movie and we started with Oliver Stone [as director].
In those days Meryl Streep was the candidate [for the role of Evita], and there was quite a bit of back and forth between Oliver and Meryl, whether she wanted to do it or not to do it, and ultimately she said no, and then Oliver was very upset.
ANDREW G. VAJNA: No problem for me. I think it is a little problematic maybe for the crew with the jet lag.