Simon Chinn som var producent till Maliks film "Searching for Sugar Man" kanske har en förklaring till varför Malik begick självmord. Chinn berättar att Malik frenetiskt hade jobbat dag och natt med filmen under fem år - och när filmen till slut var klar så lämnade filmen ett sorts tomrum i Malik.
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Getting him to finish the project was quite challenging. We almost had to drag him away from the cutting room, and the end of that process was bittersweet. Even though Sugar Man had such success, the absence of it left a bit of a hole in him.
Chinn berättar också om Maliks projekt om Lawrence Anthony. Men det projektet visade sig dock ha helt andra förutsättningar än Sugar Man. Fiktion istället för dokumentär. Och det kanske inte Malik riktigt förstod - och även om inte Chinn säger det rakt ut så antyder han att Malik körde fast.
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Malik described the project to me in great detail over dinner one evening. It was based on Lawrence Anthony, a South African conservationist who was in charge of rescuing all the animals that had escaped from The Baghdad Zoo at the start of the Iraq War. Malik had shot some material with Anthony for a possible documentary a while before, but he’d since died, and he felt there wasn’t quite enough there to base a doc on, so he embarked on a fiction film loosely based on that premise. It was a very ambitious project.
I think Malik was coming to the realization that the process of putting together and setting up a fiction film is a very different one, and he was coming around to the idea that I’d suggested—that he might consider diving into a documentary project and get back in the saddle, it didn’t necessarily need to be another Sugar Man.
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