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cool thing about this guy that he has gills?' And no one was listening. I was there basically taking notes from , who was very nice, fine to work with, but he was not a writer. And he had written a bunch of stuff that they wouldn't let their staff touch. So I was supposed to be there for a week, and I was there for seven weeks, and I accomplished nothing. I wrote a few puns, and a few scenes that I can't even sit through because they came out so bad. It was the same situation with
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things. It was a long, very lucrative episode of my life. But it's complicated to do that. Now it's all changed, actually. Now in order to get a rewrite job, you have to submit your notes for your ideas on how to fix the script. So they can get all the notes from all the different writers, keep the notes and not hire you. That's free work and that's what I always call life-wasting events."
755:, de Souza acknowledged his role as a script doctor. "I still get brought on to fix screenplays that I had nothing to do with. When a movie is about to be shot and they hire me to come in and fix the script and punch it up at the last minute. In addition, I’m like a patient resuscitator who they can hire secretly after a movie has had a horrible 167:(2007). "I really enjoy doing them. I basically analogize it to being the closer in baseball. There's something about the nature of that kind of pressure, where you're coming in at the ninth inning and throwing your fastball to three batters and leaving, that's exhilarating," Attanasio is quoted as saying from an article in the 472:(1997). Sayles has stated that the script doctor's main role is to help others tell their stories. He decides which jobs to accept based on whether there is a germ of an idea for a movie he would actually like to see. He has also stated that he works harder when writing for others than he does on his own work. 422:(2012), said: "I think script doctoring was an in road for him. People had liked what they'd seen with the Bond films, especially the dialogue. I think that caught the attention of agents and studio heads, and they said, 'I want Mankiewicz to come in here and work on this project.' He spent a lot of time at 577:
s script. Standing naked, Stoppard improvised a solution that was used in the movie. He remains bemused by this American habit of invisible script revision. 'I actually got quite angry with Spielberg, who was and is a good friend, and told him just to film Zaillian's script. But Steven, like a lot of
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for a while, because I was just going through a period where I was having a very difficult time coming up with my own ideas and I was climbing the walls. So I did what is called 'the production polish', where you are brought into the last two weeks on something that you are not emotionally invested
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was a good idea, and the script was the classic, 'They have a good idea, then they write a generic script and don't really care about the idea.' When I was brought in, there was no water in the last 40 pages of the script. It all took place on land, or on a ship, or whatever. I'm like, 'Isn't the
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article from May 1992 described Fisher as "one of the most sought-after doctors in town." When asked if she was still working as a script doctor in December 2008, she said: "I haven't done it for a few years. I did it for many years, and then younger people came to do it and I started to do new
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where no-one is looking for snappy dialogue, but the writer of that movie had gone on to direct a picture and there was a little more work that wanted done before it went to Poland to begin shooting. He asked me to come in and do that, but you are obviously more interested in your own
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A writer hired to 'spruce up' or 'fix' a script, usually by inserting jokes or otherwise adding some 'juice'. These highly paid writers are often hired by studios for brief periods of employment, most often to work on scripts that are very close to being
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He became a Hollywood screenwriter from 1926, valued highly for his contemporary, idiomatic, and vivid prose, and as a ruthless and effective 'script doctor', having a hand in many films noir for which he was
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requires a second screenwriter to contribute more than 50 percent of an original screenplay or 33 percent of an adaptation. Uncredited screenwriters are not eligible to win the
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in, where it is not your job to break the story, to come up with the moving parts and plot points. Basically, they just wanted some snappy dialogue for
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to rewrite an existing script or improve specific aspects of it, including structure, characterization, dialogue, pacing, themes, and other elements.
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She then became a script doctor, one of a small group of writers who are paid handsome fees by studios to do uncredited work on a script.
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to rewrite some scenes and re-cut the movie so they can make it good enough to get to home video. That’s my secret identity."
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Currently works in that great uncredited Hollywood profession of script doctor—or, as Fisher calls it, script nurse.
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for a variety of commercial and artistic reasons. They are usually brought in for scripts that have been almost "
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asked Towne if he wanted credit for his contributions to the screenplay of
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magazine, 'Tom is pretty much responsible for every line of dialogue .
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other people in movies, tends to think one more opinion can't hurt.
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Consider that Whedon, an A-list screenwriter and script doctor...
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Many screenwriters have done uncredited work on screenplays:
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is mine, and a bunch of the characters", adding that he was
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Tom Mankiewicz, a screenwriter and premier script doctor...
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film
television
theatre
production company
uncredited
green-lit
Writers Guild of America screenwriting credit system
Academy Award
Writers Guild of America Award
excessive
irrelevant
improve the article
less pertinent examples
Paul Attanasio
Speed
Air Force One
Armageddon
Patch Adams
Town & Country
The Bourne Ultimatum
Los Angeles Times
Al Boasberg
The General
A Night at the Opera
A Day at the Races
Carrie Fisher
Hook
Sister Act
Lethal Weapon 3
Last Action Hero

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