THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR 1997 Original Movie Script Pierce Brosnan Action Thriller

  

Pierce Brosnan at his most effortlessly cool - this production script from the stylish 1999 remake captures the film in development, before the heist sequences and Rene Russo chemistry became one of the most satisfying thrillers of the decade. Guaranteed Vintage and Original as issued. Comes with COA from the Museum of Mom and Pop Culture!

114 White Pages - - Written by Peter K. Doyle - Production Xerox with no hole shadows - Stiff Back Cover.

OVERALL CONDITION: See Photos - Fine to Very Fine! HISTORICAL INFORMATION: The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1999 American romantic heist film directed by John McTiernan and written by Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer. It is a remake of the 1968 film of the same title. Produced by United Artists and Irish DreamTime, the film was released on August 6, 1999. At first, director John McTiernan was unavailable for the remake of the 1968 film of the same name.

Pierce Brosnan and his fellow producers considered several directors (including Mike Newell, Andrew Davis, Roger Donaldson) before returning to their original choice. McTiernan then received the script and added his own ideas to the production. After McTiernan signed on to the project, he changed the theme of the central heist and a number of key scenes. McTiernan felt that contemporary audiences would be less forgiving of Thomas Crown if he staged two armed bank robberies for fun as McQueen did in the original, rather than if he staged an unarmed art heist. He wrote the heist based on the Trojan horse theme and on a technical failure of thermal cameras.

The polo match in the original film had been rewritten but McTiernan found it cliché, and he wanted a scene that conveyed more action and excitement, so he substituted a catamaran race. Originally, an elaborate 30-page sequence of the theft of the final painting was planned, although McTiernan removed this in favor of a simple mystified response by Denis Leary's character when asked how it was taken. There are a number of echo references to the original 1968 version of the film. In the remake, "The Windmills of Your Mind" plays during the ballroom scene, as background music in a couple of other scenes, and during the credits at the end; the song earned an Oscar for the original film.

Both films share a nearly identical scene with Crown playing high-stakes golf, and in both films Crown pilots a glider for recreation. A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective. SEE MORE CLASSIC PLAYS, MUSICALS AND SCREENPLAYS FROM THIS AMAZING 150K SCRIPT ARCHIVE IN OUR OTHER AUCTIONS - AND IN THE WEEKS TO COME! If it is a birthday or emergency, we can make special arrangements. We love to combine, but if you win more than one item, wait for us to pack and weigh your total order and invoice you for that total.