Whilst languishing in the Doghouse chewing on my bone, I've been reading scripts. Old, new, sold, unsold, different drafts - check the Good Smells... for links.
I find the development of an idea from conception to realization very interesting and to read the first draft of a film that has been released is quite insightful. What goes and what stays and how a director, crew and actors have interpreted the text.
In some cases you can also see ideas being recycled and moved from project to project.
For example in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull there is a scene where Indy escapes from a nuclear blast in a lead lined fridge. As unbelievable as this gag is, it looks like it might just be a recycled idea from the original draft of Back to the Future by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale back in 1981, also produced by Frank Marshall and Steven Spielberg.
In the original script; to generate time travel Doc Brown uses direct nuclear power, not electricity - and in 1955 the only nuclear source is at a military testing base - starting to sound familiar? Lead lining of the fridge protects Marty and he is sent back to the future.
Director Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he and Steven Spielberg did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside.
I wonder.
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