Phil's Script!

Keith says the Phil story I included in a post below didn't really belong in that story and told me to take it out.  BUT as a scriptwriter myself who is constantly having her scripts changed and pulled apart by people who claim they know about film, but who never seem to know that the structural parts of any script is not up to change without killing the story, I feel it's important that this story is told so I'm putting it here instead:


"Side-tracking a lot, I have a scriptwriter friend, Phil, whose film was underway when a newly-on-board producer made him remove the scenes where the kiddies break into a medical laboratory to liberate the animals. And the reason why he wanted it taken out was because he himself owned shares in several medical laboratories and didn't want to encourage that sort of behaviour.

Normally, scripts are very flexible and things are always being changed and most of the time it doesn't  matter what stays and what goes EXCEPT that break-in was STRUCTURAL. It was the actual motivating event that set up EVERYTHING that came afterwards!

Phil tried to explain but writers are treated so desperately badly in the film industry and never taken seriously, so after a lot of yelling, Phil, with the greatest reluctance, did what he was told and the film ended up with all these sinister men in black cars chasing after a bunch of kids for no reason whatsoever, and the kids were hanging around with a bunch of strange mutated animals with no explanation for them whatsoever!

Needless to say, it went against all logic and reason so bombed horribly, went straight to video and has now sunk without a trace.

Poor Phil!  For him there was no pleasure in saying "Told you so!" because that was actually a wonderful script, so clever and so funny, before the industry got hold of it."