Just before she left, Kane let slip that she was working on a new script: its title was 4.48 Psychosis.
He staged his own version of "Hamlet" in the family living room, writing on the script's title page, " 'Hamlet,' by William Shakespeare and Peter Brook" — an early auteur.
That's exactly what Julie Gilbert and Frank Evans's script — the title is a reference to Mr. Remarque's nickname for Ms. Dietrich — is saying about the glamorous Marlene.
After they collaborated on two micro-budget short films, Fassbender promptly signed up for Maclean's first feature before a plot, script or title even existed.
He staged his own version of "Hamlet" in the family living room, writing on the script's title page, " 'Hamlet,' by William Shakespeare and Peter Brook"—an early auteur.
They might have creative differences over details of the script (working title: "Hanging Chad"), but it's safe to assume that they'd agree on the outcome.
For example: in Strindberg's script, the title character describes her late mother's life, her various love affairs, and her desire to raise her only daughter like a boy, as though she's recalling a dream.
But if "Bobbi Boland" has a slender, sitcom-like script, the title character held a natural appeal for Ms. Fawcett, the former star of "Charlie's Angels," who was widely praised in 1983 when she played a vengeful victim of attempted rape in a successful Off Broadway production of "Extremities".
And while her darkly comic works ("That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play") have been something of a hot commodity in New York in recent years, she serves up a stylistic mishmash here: it's a sick sitcom, it's a thriller, it's a parody, it's a commentary on the art world, it's a -- this one's borrowed from the script's title page -- "noirish meditation on brutality".
Mean's staffers changed the script's title to "Dark Forces" by "Desmond Finch" and circulated it to readers at major Hollywood film production companies.
