Actors/actresses signing on before getting the full script
01-23-15, 10:07 PM
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Actors/actresses signing on before getting the full script
What are your thoughts on this?
I don't know how often it happens now, but I heard it was very common back in the day.
I don't know how often it happens now, but I heard it was very common back in the day.
01-24-15, 05:46 AM
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Re: Actors/actresses signing on before getting the full script
It happens often with the sequels, or would-be sequels, to movies intended to be franchises. But that's a bit of a cheat because they generally will get to the see the script for the first film before signing.
01-24-15, 06:44 AM
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01-24-15, 11:24 AM
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Re: Actors/actresses signing on before getting the full script
Also Terrence Malick, Martin Scorcese, and directors of that ilk. Also applies to top secret projects like Star Wars
I remember seeing an interview with Laura Linney once, where she discussed her process of signing onto a project. The three key factors to her were the director, the script, and her co-stars. She said if 2 out of the 3 were solid, she would likely sign up too.
I remember seeing an interview with Laura Linney once, where she discussed her process of signing onto a project. The three key factors to her were the director, the script, and her co-stars. She said if 2 out of the 3 were solid, she would likely sign up too.
01-24-15, 12:57 PM
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Re: Actors/actresses signing on before getting the full script
"We have a starting date...but we don't have a script. But what the hell, a lot of people have scripts that don't have a starting date." - DeForest Kelley paraphrasing Gene Roddenberry's comments about the upcoming STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE in the late 1970s.
I think Harrison Ford's THE FUGITIVE is an great example of a movie that shot while the script was still being written.
I think Harrison Ford's THE FUGITIVE is an great example of a movie that shot while the script was still being written.
01-24-15, 01:33 PM
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Re: Actors/actresses signing on before getting the full script
Didn't Brad Pitt mention the same thing about Devil's Own? Called it irresponsible filmaking? And Hollywood Homicide was supposed to be a serious drama until Suge Knight showed up on set an demanded the film was to be a comedy, hmmm... common element?
01-24-15, 02:51 PM
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Re: Actors/actresses signing on before getting the full script
To the Wonder never had a completed script, period, but an actor would have to be a full-fledged fool to turn down working with Terrence Malick.
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01-24-15, 03:01 PM
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Re: Actors/actresses signing on before getting the full script
Most comedies don't have scripts, they have what are called treatments. Many comedies improv and ad-lib on set, which is why it's often very hard coming up with a funny sequel to a hit.
01-26-15, 05:25 AM
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http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayli...e-malick-again
"I was put in all sorts of different spots and suddenly my character was not in the scene that I thought I was in, in the editing room. It was very strange. It completely unbalances everything. And a very emotional scene that I had suddenly became background noise," Plummer said about his experience, adding that afterward, he wrote him a letter. “I gave him shit. I’ll never work with him again.”
