Just don't quit...

MovieScope makes me feel positive. It might just be possible to get there. Back to the scripts...

I feel like the floor of a taxi cab...

All this chatter gets me hot under the collar.
Teasing me...

There's just something about an anatomically correct rubber suit that puts fire in a girl's lips...

Apologies if Doghouse is getting a little Bat heavy, but it's just all sooo exciting.
A fellow dog in the field alerted me to this fun Batman titbit. Clearly a fanboy's dig at Bay and the Hollywood machine, very cool.

Revenge of the Nerds II...

Whilst whining on about the recycling of script ideas the other day - I forgot to mention that in the original script for Back to the Future; 'Einstein' - Doc's scruffy counterpart was written as a monkey. Described as an Organ Grinder Monkey called Shemp.
Thank the maker they rewrote that one.
Could have been quite a different movie.
Also dogs are far more intelligent.

Those nerds are a threat to our way of life...

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.

You want to talk to God? Let's go see him together, I've got nothing better to do...

I know I keep barking on about the disastrous new Indiana Jones film, But for any dogs out there who are trying to get the bad taste out of your muzzle, check this out. A script for Indy IV from '95 penned by Chris Columbus - of Gremlins and Goonies fame.
Still not what I was waiting for, but I didn't read about any gophers.
Woof.