Robert Nelville lives in the aftermath of a pandemic that nearly wiped out the entire human population. Today I offer you another episode of, “WAS THAT OLD DRAFT REALLY BETTER THAN THE MOVIE?!” It was way better than what they went with. ![]() Often, the movies are just different iterations of the same material.īut this is the script they say is the exception to that rule. The idea that that all these movies (The Snyder Cut! The Ayer Cut!) have some masterful unamade better version somewhere back at the studio lot may sound romantic. I said that, in my experience, the script that makes it to screen is the best version of the script 99% of the time. A discussion had begun brewing online about whether Richard Curtis ruined Yesterday and that the original script was much better. Last week I reviewed a script called Cover Version, which is the script that would eventually become Yesterday. Writer: Mark Protosevich (based on the classic novel by Richard Matheson Which is why I wanted to read the draft they passed up. It is widely believed that they went with a lame draft and ditched one of the best drafts of a script EVER. ![]() ![]() It was one of the longest running properties in Development Hell until Will Smith came along and finally turned the project into a go movie. Premise: In post-apocalyptic San Francisco, a man tries to survive with his dog while avoiding a new race of blood-drinking people.Ībout: I am Legend is a classic book. Today I finally FINALLY settle the debate of whether the famous Protosevich draft of I Am Legend is an abandoned classic
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