Crash (Original screenplay for the 1996 film, copy belonging to set decorator Elinor Rose Galbraith). Author: David Cronenberg (director, screenwriter); J. Ballard (novel); James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Rosanna Arquette, Deborah Kara Unger (starring) Title: Crash (Original screenplay for the 1996 film, copy belonging to set decorator Elinor Rose Galbraith) Publication: London: Recorded Picture Company, 1994. Description: Second Draft script for the 1996 film. Copy belonging to set decorator Elinor Rose Galbraith, with an annotation in holograph ink noting her name on the top right corner of page one.
Ballard's 1973 novel, about a television director who, after nearly dying in a road accident, discovers-and eventually joins-an underground group of car crash fetishists. Considered by many to be one of David Cronenberg's finest directorial efforts, following the modern fusion of human sexuality and technology to its grotesque conclusion. Shot on location in Toronto. Title page present, dated September 1, 1994, noted as Second Draft, with credits for screenwriter David Cronenberg and novelist J.79 leaves, with last page of text numbered 77. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated 9/19/95. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Subject: 1990s Cinema, Directors, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources.
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