Basically what the title says. One right of the top of my head is :
Last Action Hero by Zak Penn and Adam Leff
It started as a terrific spec and ended up a terrific disaster. All of the elements were in place to make a fantastic send up of the action genre. It could have been the action movie version of Purple Rose of Cairo. Arnold Schwarzenegger was at the top of his career, as was John McTiernan. Send in Shane Black to to a little rewrite and it should have been brilliant.
John McTiernan should have been bullet proof, coming off Predator, Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October, but he really let his ego get the best of him, and struggled to find the tone of the movie. It's a shame, because the original spec, Extremely Violent, was really solid.
Any others? I've heard that David People's script for Soldier was pretty good too.
Last Action Hero by Zak Penn and Adam Leff
It started as a terrific spec and ended up a terrific disaster. All of the elements were in place to make a fantastic send up of the action genre. It could have been the action movie version of Purple Rose of Cairo. Arnold Schwarzenegger was at the top of his career, as was John McTiernan. Send in Shane Black to to a little rewrite and it should have been brilliant.
John McTiernan should have been bullet proof, coming off Predator, Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October, but he really let his ego get the best of him, and struggled to find the tone of the movie. It's a shame, because the original spec, Extremely Violent, was really solid.
Any others? I've heard that David People's script for Soldier was pretty good too.
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