But the film found its director in a way more befitting a stoner comedy.
“The way it happened was Jerome Hallman lived in Malibu Colony, Hal Ashby lived in Malibu Colony.
So, he walked down to Hal’s house, [and] Hal was in his hot tub.
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Thinking that he had some time, Ashby asked Hallman to leave the script for him to read.
“Jerry said, ‘No, I got to watch you read the script now.’
And he said, ‘Vietnam and I need you to shoot tomorrow.'”
Dern also noted that both of those competing projects started production the same week asComing Home.
“All three movies started within days of each other,” Dern said.
