I've been waiting to see this a long time. The script was awesome. Proud of my peeps.
The script's by Aaron Guzikowski, a NY native, who wrote "Contraband". "Prisoners" was supposed to come out Oct 2010, but all of us know the deal....Creative Screenwriting did an article on him in their Nov/Dec 2009 issue.
Great film. Even knowing what would happen I was riveted. Pretty much every single little nitpick I had in the script was fixed, just shows how the development process can work to improve a script without taking away any of the things that made it great. Even 95% of the dialogue from the original script made it in (although they dropped Loki's "I don't shake" line which I thought had a nice little payoff later.)
It's long (2.5 hours) but it doesn't feel like it at all.
This was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. I didn't read the original script like some of you did, but the final cut had to of been awesome because this movie was fantastic. I can't remember the last time a movie lived up to all the hype of the reviews, like this one did.
I enjoyed this movie but wasn't crazy about the ending. Maybe I would've been better off reading the script because it had too much going on at the end and seemed all over the place.
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I would've had Gyllenhal trust Jackman's instincs and team up with him. Not sure why there wasn't pressure to find Dano's character. They could have used him as collateral with the aunt. I loved the concept of the panicked father holding the abductor.
Curious to those of you who read the script for this, how many pages was it? I know it was a 2:20 minute movie, but I'm curious how many pages it was exactly.
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