Charles Bukowski wanted Sean Penn to star as protagonist Henry Chinaski, but Penn insisted that Dennis Hopper direct the film. Later, Hopper directed Penn in Colors - colori di guerra (1988) without Hopper acting in it. Around three years later, Penn would direct Hopper in Lupo solitario (1991) which Penn doesn't act in. Bukowski had written the Barfly - Moscone da bar (1987) screenplay for Barbet Schroeder, who had filmed him for French TV years before but would not surrender it to Hopper, whom he despised as a gold-chain wearing Hollywood phony. Bukowski and Penn became friends for the rest of his life.

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