Then his agent told Mr. Gilligan he had offered the script to AMC.
A week after he offered the script, it had been copy-edited, had cover art and was for sale online.
Mr. Gere said he was offered the script a few years ago, at a time when he was looking for films that his young son, Homer, could enjoy.
Then the playwright offered the script to Mr. Gazzara, who recalled: "When I heard Yogi, I said, 'Send it on.' First my wife read it.
Influenced by New Wavers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard (both were offered the script before it went to Arthur Penn), this was sex and violence done in the spirit of European arthouse.
After producer Jhamu Sugandh experienced financial difficulties they offered the script to Aamir Khan, who agreed to finance the film.
When Lincoln Center Theater offered Cherry the leading role of Catherine Sloper in The Heiress -- a beautiful, sensitive, and ultimately strong-willed young woman -- Cherry received the offer and the script and automatically assumed she was being offered the role of Catherine's protective, dotty elderly aunt!
Thor could have used a few more lines in that vein, given what's on offer in the script.
By 1983, Jonathan Powell was keen to put the serial into production and offered the scripts to producer Michael Wearing who was immediately impressed by the scenes in the first episode, "Compassionate Leave", depicting Craven's reaction to Emma's death, describing them as "the most sustained evocation of individual grief in bereavement that I can remember".
(Those temptations, for the record, are offered by the script, and Ms. Shapiro and her cast deserve much credit for avoiding them).
