If you can find Tony Gilroy’s script for this, it’s amazing. It’s one of the scripts I always read before starting on an assignment. There are three scripts I re-read before every feature gig. MICHAEL CLAYTON by Tony Gilroy…
https://twitter.com/SilvermanJacob/status/1408407446784253955
THE HUSTLER by Robert Rossen and Sydney Carroll.
ALIEN by Walter Hill, Ronald Shussett and Dan O’Bannon (but I think the draft I have is mostly Walter Hill).
Depending on the tone of what I’m writing, I’ll also read THELMA AND LOUISE by @CallieKhouri
So four.
So four.
Also in the rotation are THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, also by Tony Gilroy…
…and more recently, BLADE RUNNER 2049 by Hampton Fancher and @andmichaelgreen
This one especially for how to build a design heavy world in a script without stacking the page with needless description. It’s so efficient but equally evocative.
This one especially for how to build a design heavy world in a script without stacking the page with needless description. It’s so efficient but equally evocative.
I believe most of the above are published. You can also find drafts online in various places.
Now, I’m not nearly as good as any of the people above, hahahaha, but I read them!
Now, I’m not nearly as good as any of the people above, hahahaha, but I read them!
And don’t sleep on THE HUSTLER because it’s “an old movie.”
That script SLAPS like it was written tomorrow. It’s so contemporary. Really ahead of its time.
That script SLAPS like it was written tomorrow. It’s so contemporary. Really ahead of its time.
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