Curtis Hanson WONDER BOYS Original screenplay for the 2000 film 1997 #138625

  

Wonder Boys (Original screenplay for the 2000 film). Author: Curtis Hanson (director); Michael Chabon (novel); Steve Kloves (screenwriter); Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey, Jr. (starring) Title: Wonder Boys (Original screenplay for the 2000 film) Publication: Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1997. Description: Master Draft script for the 2000 film, preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil.

Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp (Douglas) teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh, struggles writing his second novel, and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him, and he is having an affair with the Chancellor of the university (McDormand).

Grady's editor Downey, Jr. Inquires about the novel, but becomes interested in a book by one of Grady's students (Maguire), as well as having other, more intimate intentions. Shot on location throughout Pennsylvania. Bob Dylan won an Academy Award for his original song, "Things Have Changed, " and the film was nominated for two more.

Blue wrappers, noted as MASTER W/ SCENE NUMBERS on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated December 1997, with credits for novelist Chabon and screenwriter Kloves.

129 leaves, with last page of text numbered 128. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

Subject: 2000s Cinema, Academy Awards, Comedy, Drugs and Alcohol, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources, LGBTQ Interest, Writers. Royal Books is located in the midtown area of Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1996, we have specialized in rare books and paper relating to twentieth century literature, genre fiction, the arts, and popular culture, with a particular emphasis on cinema. All books noted as First Editions are also First Printings unless indicated otherwise.

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