Gordon and Gansa's early screenplay drafts made no mention of bipolar disorder.
They were part of an ad hoc group that read an early screenplay and warned publicly that it could inflame anti-Semitism, angering Mr. Gibson.
"Lucky Bruce" is a "literary memoir" mainly for the persistence with which it reminds readers that Friedman, whose biggest successes include an early screenplay for "Splash" and the play "Steambath," also pursued bigger game, the biggest being the almighty novel.
(In an early screenplay for "In the Heat of the Night," Mr. Poitier's Virgil Tibbs was equipped with a copy of "The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre" to establish his bona fides).
In this moody, deliberately paced film noir, from an early screenplay by Eric Roth ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Cooperer discovers that his standing has come into question because of his inability to close a real estate deal that would extend his empire.
Tom Epperson, who had struck up a friendship with Spacey while writing an early screenplay draft of The Shipping News, was hired to write a new draft for Beyond the Sea.
However, even though Revenge removes Jaws 3-D from series continuity, the underwater chase scene between Mike and the shark in Revenge was lifted from an early screenplay draft of Jaws 3-D.
An early screenplay draft called for the Defiant to be destroyed, but Deep Space Nine executive producer Ira Steven Behr objected to the destruction of his show's ship and so the idea was dropped.
Before the fire, Linklater stored everything at Bastrop: drafts of his early screenplays, correspondence, production paperwork, props, and Super 8 films from his early years.
David Jones's direction, with its hushed intensity and stop-and-go rhythm, suggests the influence of Joseph Losey, for whom Mr. Pinter wrote some of his earliest screenplays.
