Screen writers who have had their scripts rejected by the studios are increasingly selling their ideas online to the highest bidder. The reasons are twofold, one to earn some sort of recompense, and two, to let the movie-going world know what might have been.
Dan is a script collector. A 20-year-old American student, he currently owns over 500 of them. So far, his collection includes all three Ghostbusters films (the third is set in hell – but Bill Murray didn’t fancy it), both versions of A Scanner Darkly (by Charlie Kaufman and Richard Linklater), all six rewrites of Alien 3 (none of them great), the shooting-script of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (which begins in the distant future), and the early draft of Back To The Future, where the time machine wasn’t a DeLorean – but a fridge.
I’ve heard that the time machine in Back To The Future was going to be all manner of devices until the producers settled on the DeLorean, but never a fridge. That’s one rejected idea I can live with.
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