Incredibly,Jawswasdefined rather than destroyed by its arduous shoot.
Its said that Wilders response was a swift, pithy, Go shit in your hat.
Four years after the Oscar-winningSunset Boulevard,Wilder directed the less controversialSabrina.
By contrast, Sydney Pollacks 1995 remake did start with a finished script, and was a flop.
AlthoughTopazis recognisably a Hitchcock film, its not among the directors finest work.
That was not the way that Fincher wanted to do his first film.
LikeAlien 3,the thirdJurassic Parkmovie went into production without a finished script.
We never did have a final script.
We did not have a final script until after we wrapped the movie.
We shot pages that eventually went into the final script but we didnt have a document.
The joke on the set was it was going to be the wrap gift, everybody got a script.
But behind the scenes, things werent quite as organised as you might think.
They had no script, man, co-star Jeff Bridges revealed in a recentinterview.
They had an outline.
We would show up for big scenes every day and we wouldnt know what we were going to say.
Meanwhile the crew is tapping their foot on the stage waiting for us to come on.
I said, Oh, what were doing here, were making a $200 million student film.
Were all just fuckin around!
Oh, great!'
That took all the pressure off.
Oh, just jam, man, just play.
And it turned out great!
Its like, oh shit, you know?
Meanwhile, a screenwriter was frantically rewriting scenes often while on set.
It had a lot of heart, and I thought it was fun.
