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While acknowledging the patently obvious fact that "it may seem as if there's a great advantage to being handed someone else's premise and characters" (and story, and structure, and dialogue), he bristles at the notion that the subsequent screenplay would not be considered "original".
It's also worth remembering that the screenwriter of The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty, was inspired by a real exorcism that occurred in 1949 – but when he wrote his novel and subsequent screenplay, he switched the victim's gender from male to female.
I caught up with the authors just in time for Halloween and chatted about the book, the subsequent screenplay and their dream cast for a potential film.
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For this adaptation, Nigel Kneale himself was allowed to write the first draft of the screenplay, although subsequent drafts were worked on by director Val Guest.
His film adaptation of Fever Pitch, in which he was portrayed by Colin Firth, came out in 1997, but he didn't write the screenplays for subsequent film versions of his work.
"The issue is not whether Schulberg's testimony shaped subsequent versions of the 'Waterfront' screenplay but whether the act of composing the original screenplay shaped his decision to testify or the character of that testimony".
In an addendum, Katz recounts his decade of legal troubles with an unforgiving Vatican and the heirs of Pius XII for having asserted in his 1967 book, "Death in Rome," and in his screenplay for a subsequent film based on the book, that the pope had known in advance of the massacre of the Ardeatine Caves but had remained silent and failed to intervene with the Germans.
Columbia acquired the rights to all previous scripts in 2000, but exercised options only on the "Cameron Material", i.e., both the completed multi-author screenplay and the subsequent "scriptment".
The subsequent non-pornographic and ultimately unproduced screenplay they wrote, Sassy, contains Crumb-esque dialogue like "Wow! Lookit the musculature on those arms and legs… I'm in love with her!" and ends with the sasquatch being released back to the wild.
It characterised Foxwell's subsequent work, with his contributory involvement in the screenplay, a talented collaborator - Dylan Thomas - and a linchpin central role with Freda Jackson as the fiendish Mrs Vorey.
She asked me to work with her assistant to co-write the first draft of the screenplay, and she would call me on subsequent drafts to get input from me.
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