The Remarkable Andrew, from a fanciful Dalton Trumbo script, featured Brian Donlevy as the ghost of Andrew Jackson, back to aid a do-gooder (played by William Holden).
As with most undeciphered scripts, there are many fanciful interpretations and claimed translations of rongorongo.
His script occasionally veered towards the fanciful, as when he described the fleeing of the English separatists across the North Sea to Holland.
There are many plot points in Anderson's script that, while qualifying as fanciful fictions, are downright ludicrous in terms of life at sea in a traditionally all-male environment.
The Baroque master William Christie conducts; the concept and script are by Jeremy Sams; and the fanciful, projection-based production is directed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch, whose "Satyagraha" was a masterpiece.
As with most undeciphered scripts, many of the proposals have been fanciful.
What is going on in Northern Ireland is the stuff of Hollywood movies, a script that would probably be rejected as too fanciful.
There is no script and no structure except for the games, a fanciful array of exercises whose requirements range from making as many exits and entrances as possible in one scene to switching repeatedly back and forth from English to gibberish in another.
Nor will co-writer Simon Beaufoy (whose credits include The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire) be returning for Mockingjay, with Danny Strong taking over script duties after wrestling the true-life tale of Eugene Allen into the fanciful fiction of The Butler.
That's what I really wanted this to feel like, and so when I read the script with its true-crime horror I wondered how we could bring out the fanciful, hyperreal boy's adventure in it, almost to bring out elements of fairy tales, like 'Hansel and Gretel.' So a lot of it was to take something based on actual incidents and bring a fanciful frame to it".
