Our hero The Bitter Script Reader scores again:
by The Bitter Script Reader
About a half-year into the life of this blog, I conducted an interview with screenwriter Dan Callahan. With his writing partner Adam Ellison, Dan wrote a pretty good script called COLLEGE that got turned into a rather terrible movie.
I feel bad saying that, but Dan basically says as much over the course of this interview. Rotten Tomatoes agrees, rating it at just 5%. I’ve read the version of the script that sold, and while it’s probably not anything that would make the yearly Black List, it is a perfectly good teen comedy. It was rather fascinating to read that draft and then see what resulted on-screen. There’s a lot to be learned just through examining that development process.