"We wrote 25 drafts of the script," he said.
We always do lots of revision: there were at least 20-odd drafts of the script.
With several other drafts of the script, it lay in the archives for decades.
Mr. Gathorne-Hardy, who commented on several drafts of the script, did not approve.
He wrote multiple drafts of the script, and planned an accompanying documentary.
Cianfrance and the screenwriters Ben Coccio and Darius Marder wrote thirty-seven drafts of the script, but gave him almost nothing to say.
Behind her desk sits an enormous box filled with drafts of the script for Eden, an intensive, troubled project that took three years and two producers to complete.
"We worked on several drafts of the script," says Ivory. "It was only in the eighth, I think, that we made Jackson blind.
But last February, "The Kennedys" was criticized by a group of historians who were shown early drafts of the script by Robert Greenwald, a liberal filmmaker who had obtained copies.
Mr. Tykwer, a friend of the Wachowskis — the directors declined interview requests — joined in writing the numerous drafts of the script, which were shared with the book's author, David Mitchell.
Mr. Lee, who has been the artistic director of N.Y.U.'s graduate film program for nearly a decade, critiqued drafts of the script and advised Ms. Rees and her producer, Nekisa Cooper, on fund-raising.
