Brett Ratner's new dream is to direct the movie version of Wicked
Within this typically shrugging New York Times profile of Brett Ratner, the director displays his usual mix of indifference to snobby detractors (“I’m flattered, if anything, for those of you who think you’re getting my goat”) and defensiveness towards those same detractors about his worth as a filmmaker (calling Tower Heist an example of his “maturity,” talking about how hard it is to make a film, taking pains to point out his close friendship with, uh, Roman Polanski). It’s a mostly pointless fluff piece that may as well be titled “Hey, I’m Brett Ratner, And I’m Just Doin’ Me,” but it does end with one interesting revelation: Ratner now says his “dream project” is to direct the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked, which he points to as an example of how he always likes to challenge himself—“and whether I failed or not, I didn’t fail in my mind,” Ratner adds, probably redundantly.