So, moving boxes in the back of a closet here, I realized one of them was labeled “Screenplays.”
I opened it up and found all the scripts that sold before I had a computer - written on that King Tiger Tank of a Selectric II back in the day.
Among them is the shooting draft of “In The Year of the Monkey,” with all the music cues.
I will get this scanned into a PDF, and start posting it here next month. This will be completely behind the paywall. If you want to read what American Film magazine called in 1990 “The best unproduced Vietnam screenplay in Hollywood,” you will need to be a paid subscriber. I can guarantee you this one is worth the price of admission.
I had completely forgotten I had written one of the screenplays, “Outlaws!” When I re-read the first act, I remembered it. This is another one you will like. I also have “Beyond The Wall of Sleep,” which was the screenplay I was “between drafts” on when Roger asked me if I had an idea for “The Terror Within.” Roger thought this was the best screenplay I wrote for him - and it was, but then he made the mistake of hiring “the son of the richest man in Spain” as the director, who proceeded to prove that no matter how much money you have, you cannot buy talent. But the script will scare you!
So in addition to the Vietnam screenplay, there will be several more “Saturday Night at the Movies” for the paid subscribers.
The “ticket” is only half the price you’d pay at the mall nowadays, assuming you would go to a theater in the mall nowadays.
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Keep going through those boxes Tom! Looking forward to these!
Reading the scripts can be better than the films they were or tried to be if one has an imagination informed by great books and films, so I'm looking forward to this, especially now that I'm giving the cold shoulder to movieland until the execs come around.