Joss Whedon
Buy Now

Joss Whedon outside his office in Santa Monica, Calif., Apr. 30, 2013. (MICHAEL LEWIS/THE NEW YORK TIMES)

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been in the process of rewriting a script written by a friend of a friend. To put it kindly, the script, which is set in purgatory, has issues, but the bones of the script were good, so I took on the task of doing a near-complete rewrite.

For years, I’ve read about the Hollywood practice of script rewrites. Often a studio would buy a script and then do a total rewrite of it, sometimes for the better, more often for the worse. In other cases, writers would be brought in to polish a script or to punch up the dialogue. These writers are known as script doctors.

Tags

(0) comments

Welcome to the discussion.

Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language.
PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.
Don't Threaten. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated.
Be Truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone or anything.
Be Nice. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism that is degrading to another person.
Be Proactive. Use the 'Report' link on each comment to let us know of abusive posts.
Share with Us. We'd love to hear eyewitness accounts, the history behind an article.

Post a comment
Stop watching this discussion.