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Dec 22, 2016. A Wake-Up Call Comes 90 Years Early: Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt in Passengers. She's a writer — a crummy one, to judge by a sample she will later pronounce 'some of the best work I've ever done. The script, by Jon Spaihts, has kicked around Hollywood for nearly a decade. Passengers Script. Posted by: Angela, April 13, 2017. The Passengers script was written by Jon Spaihts. This script was on the 2007 Black List and was beloved by industry insiders. So why did the movie disappoint? Take a look at the script and try to figure out what might have gone wrong. Click to share on Twitter (Opens. 2601 2N D STREET SANTA MONICA CA 90405. Power Tool Essentials Minecraft Color there. Hello, Passenger. Hello, robot. Jim follows wall markings to his cabin. Lets himself in. Cozy but small. A bed, a desk, an armchair. A SCREEN lights up. I'll write an expose so hot you'll need oven.
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So off the top of my head and in no particular order: • Sovereign, Geoff Tock, Geoffery Weidman (for it's aesthetics) • Passengers, John Spaihts (so light and fluffy and cute) • Deeper, Max Landis (fun, exciting, visually stimulating) • All You need is Kill, DW Harper (just straight up cool. Thick action lines feel like a breeze) • Rothschild, Christopher Pendegraft (funny, ending kicks you in the balls) And of those five, to answer your second question, probably Sovereign. It's a sci-fi revenge thriller flick with a couple of cool twists. It's basically the HAL stuff from 2001, but on steroids, with explosions and an entire movie.
But I wouldn't normally write home about it. The reason it's impacted my writing the most is the fucking weird action lines. It's so weird. It looks so fucking weird but it reads so well. And so quickly. I've never read anything like it.
Except maybe Tony Gilroy's Bourne fight scenes which are Fucking exhilarating May seem small to you but it was fucking huge for me that a script with such unconventional style could receive the attention that it did. It's an obvious lesson and people say shit all the time about breaking the rules. But whatever they bang on about is never as visibly different on the page as Sovereign is.
It's actually genuinely aesthetically pleasing. And flashbacks are used refreshingly. But overall execution, for me, is like a 6/10. Too many big 'seemingly impossible to defeat' robots for me. Edit: formatting • • • • •. Don't know the full story, but I don't think DW Harper was credited on the final movie at all. Cbf to look it up, but I think the story is this.
Harper buys the rights to the Japanese novel, writes it as a spec, sells it. Whatever Studio likes the premise, but gets in like 30 guys to rewrite it. Shit is drastically different though. Whole third act is totally different, Like, the main character is originally 20, the girl's role is way smaller and doesn't chat with the protag until like page 70, the Sargent is actually a sick dog, there's a japanese bestie, and the aliens are named 'mimics' because they actually mimic humans etc etc.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the final movie. Edit: go read it • • • • •.
I totally get what you are saying about Sovereign, I see this as the future of screenwriting. People already say that scripts are more dialogue heavy these days, because its easier and faster to read. Even though theres a thematic motive to the way its written, I feel like you could pepper one sentence action lines amongst normal action blocks to achieve an effect of giving a couple really important action lines room to breathe and stand out in the mind of the reader. I couldn't finish Sovereign though, the style made it hard for me to visualize/remember what was happening/had happened. Also with short action lines, I wonder if its 100 pages would be long enough to fill an entire feature film. I think the first 5 pages would take up maybe a minute of screen time. So much page space is used to describe scenery, but very little action.