Which script you read contrasted from the movie you seen on TV or theaters?
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Table Read
Hi I'm currently writing a feature and am thinking of having a table read. However I'd like it to be more than just actors reading. I would like to incorporate a multimedia element using sound and images you might see in the film as well as limited stage direction. Additionally, because of the natur...
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Filmmaking is an evolution. Virtually all films will differ from the screenplay - sometimes for better, often for worse.
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Yeah Elisabeth there's a few scripts I stopped reading after page 5 because it didn't keep my attention lol. I agree Shaun, I just find it funny how some scripts will be set for one audience and when it's made they target another audience lol
though creative, screenwriting is a mechanical and tedious process...its more or less a purification process from script to screen
Whiplash changed a bunch.
Compare the original Jon Spaihts draft of PROMETHEUS to the Damon Lindelof draft they shot: completely different (and the Spaihts draft would have been a great film, unlike the Lindelof draft). Compar...
Expand commentCompare the original Jon Spaihts draft of PROMETHEUS to the Damon Lindelof draft they shot: completely different (and the Spaihts draft would have been a great film, unlike the Lindelof draft). Compare the 3000 script to PRETTY WOMAN, wildly different! Scripts go through a huge meatgrinder where everything changes, often on a whim. Backstory on the Ridley Scott ROBIN HOOD movie: http://sex-in-a-sub.blogspot.com/2010/05/robbing-from-poor-writer.html