but his last feature was the tempered 1999 film, Pola X, an adaptation of a Herman Melville novel (the X representing the number of
drafts the script went through).
Not exact matches
I've sent them off to
go write their first
script drafts, so we're well underway.
The trailer did feel like recycled ideas from discarded «Cloverfield» and «Transfomers» sequels, but the early
draft of the
script we read was a cracker, and if anyone was
going to water it down, it was unlikely to be del Toro.
Apparently, the
script went through many
drafts, and the film
went into development hell.
I've just been attached to a pretty big science - fiction film that I'm
going to re-write the
draft of the presently existing
script.
We'd already heard that a previous
draft of the
script was thrown at actors like Brad Pitt and James Franco, which suggested that the Albert Hughes - directed film is
going to
go pretty far off - book.
For the sake of Segel and Stoller's reputations as writers, we are
going to hope that they
went into production with Angelo's
draft of the
script, only to have Segel and Stoller punch it up once they realized it wasn't working, and then realizing that there wasn't enough time to get it completely right, so they settled for this.
The latest Quentin Tarantino effort, The Hateful Eight (released January 8),
went through various pre-release and even pre-production hurdles before making it on - screen - most notably when an early
draft of the
script was leaked online, reportedly by an actor, leading Tarantino to call off the whole thing in a fit of pique at the betrayal.
Earlier
drafts of Webb's
script allegedly created a equilibrium between King and Johnson, even
going as far as viewing many of the events through the latter's eyes.
Derek Luke and Lindsay Sloane have joined the project «Seeking A Friend At The End of the World,» Bryan Singer is producing the unfortunately titled Internet thriller «uwantme2killhim,» «Rabbit Hole» actor Miles Teller will star in «21 And Over,» which will be directed by ««The Hangover» writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, «300» writer Kurt Johnstad has been
drafted to rework the
script for James Mangold «s «The Gunslinger,» and lastly, «Saw» director Darren Bousman is
going to helm what is being described as a «The Shining «- style horror tale called «The Barrens.»
The film has been in development for some time and has seen numerous changes but, according to Deadline, it will now finally
go ahead with Burr Steers directing from a
script he has re-written based on an earlier
draft from David O. Russell.
That is, unless someone leaks Tarantino's second
draft of the
script, too, in which case we're probably
going to have to start this process all over again.
Ron Shelton compares a
script to sheet music, but says that it unfortunately only gets played once; he then
goes on to talk about Bull Durham being written in a single
draft, with his film's opening two - page monologue dictated into a microcassette recorder while driving the back roads of North Carolina.
Some very disappointing news came earlier this week when Quentin Tarantino announced that he was no longer
going to make his Western The Hateful Eight after an agent leaked his
draft of the
script.