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Jun 21, 2022 10 tweets 9 min read
Something I've been musing about for a while that actually works better as a thread than as a traditional written piece:

There are some fun similarities between the development of the first eight EON James Bond films and Paramount's run of Friday the 13th... Image
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First movies (DR. NO / FRIDAY THE 13TH):

We (the filmmakers/producers) don't really know what we're doing yet. We really just know that we want to capitalize on this popular existing thing (Ian Fleming's novels for Bond; John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN for F13). Image
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