Certainly some of the success of "The Good Wife," the Kings said, can be traced to Ms. Margulies, who expressed interest after reading the script of the pilot episode.
After the scripting of "Humbug", Morgan claims that he entered into a state of depression.
In the spring of 1995, Garry Hynes, the director of the Druid Theatre, in Galway, found herself "sitting down one night after dinner at home, with the script of 'A Skull in Connemara.' As soon as I read the dialogue, I wanted to hear it, to the degree that I started reading it aloud to myself.
After a single reading of the script of Monty Python's Life of Brian, he mortgaged his own luxury mansion and sank the resultant funds into a project that had been abandoned, days before shooting started, by its original backer, Bernie Delfont of EMI.
After the first read through of the script of my latest film [Enduring Love with Bill Nighy and Susan Lynch] the six of us - Samantha Morton, Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans, Joe Penhall the writer, Kevin Loader the producer and myself - came here for lunch.
"The Hateful Eight" became the subject of much attention after the script leaked online in January, and word at the time indicated Tarantino would shelve the project.
That's more than I can say about this piece of…." After the script was complete, Fox Searchlight, New Regency and Worldview Entertainment agreed to make the film for about $18 million, with, among others, producer John Lesher.
Even Wood was surprised when she managed to persuade Chris Noth to join the cast as the lawyer – particularly after greeting him on the phone with what she says is Noth's least favourite form of address, "Mr Big!!!" He said yes after reading the script and in spite of the tiny budget and frenetic four-week filming schedule.
After ridiculing the script during filming, one of the stars finally called out, "Whoever wrote this doesn't know how to write comedy!" -- with the author present.
He admits that even after reading the script and score a couple of times, "I still didn't understand it".
