Post by Jayden Murphy on May 16, 2009 20:46:26 GMT -5
For those of you not familiar with this story heres the trash, I mean dish; Woman finds 'Twilight' sequel script in trash
So, the question; will I find one in the trash?
I can't help but wonder, and will have to wait til November to find out, should it have stayed there?
- Sorry.
Woman finds 'Twilight' sequel script in trash
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A St. Louis beauty salon owner accidentally happened upon one of the hottest Hollywood scripts — the pages from an upcoming "Twilight" sequel — in a trash bin.
Casey Ray found two scripts, one for the vampire sequel "New Moon" and one for a different movie titled "Memoirs." She decided to return them to the studio making the films. In return, she was invited to attend the movies' premieres, her lawyer said.
Ray recently was waiting for her fiance to finish work when she spotted two scripts in a trash container. She was outside a hotel where actors were staying during a St. Louis shoot for the upcoming George Clooney movie, "Up in the Air."
It's not clear how the scripts wound up in the bin.
The Clooney movie includes actress Anna Kendrick, who is also in the "Twilight" vampire movie. A spokeswoman for Kendrick, Lisa Perkins, said the actress wouldn't have left scripts lying around.
When Ray found the scripts, she considered leaking them to a national tabloid but decided against it, said her lawyer, Al Watkins.
"My client didn't really want to get paid," he said, but she was interested in hanging onto the scripts as collector's items.
Watkins helped her return them to Los Angeles-based Summit Entertainment LLC, the studio making the movies. He said the studio invited Ray to premieres for the two films, and will certify the scripts as authentic after the movies are released.
"Summit doesn't comment on any of the deals it does," Summit spokesman Paul Pflug said. But he added, "We thank Ms. Ray for doing the right thing."
The "Twilight" movies are based on the novels of Stephenie Meyer, so many of the plot turns are well known to readers. But keeping the "New Moon" script written by Melissa Rosenberg out of the public eye preserves which elements of the book will be included in the films, Pflug noted.
Last year's original "Twilight" film grossed over $350 million worldwide. paralleluniverse.msn.com/features/movies/twilight-sequel-script/?gt1=28140
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A St. Louis beauty salon owner accidentally happened upon one of the hottest Hollywood scripts — the pages from an upcoming "Twilight" sequel — in a trash bin.
Casey Ray found two scripts, one for the vampire sequel "New Moon" and one for a different movie titled "Memoirs." She decided to return them to the studio making the films. In return, she was invited to attend the movies' premieres, her lawyer said.
Ray recently was waiting for her fiance to finish work when she spotted two scripts in a trash container. She was outside a hotel where actors were staying during a St. Louis shoot for the upcoming George Clooney movie, "Up in the Air."
It's not clear how the scripts wound up in the bin.
The Clooney movie includes actress Anna Kendrick, who is also in the "Twilight" vampire movie. A spokeswoman for Kendrick, Lisa Perkins, said the actress wouldn't have left scripts lying around.
When Ray found the scripts, she considered leaking them to a national tabloid but decided against it, said her lawyer, Al Watkins.
"My client didn't really want to get paid," he said, but she was interested in hanging onto the scripts as collector's items.
Watkins helped her return them to Los Angeles-based Summit Entertainment LLC, the studio making the movies. He said the studio invited Ray to premieres for the two films, and will certify the scripts as authentic after the movies are released.
"Summit doesn't comment on any of the deals it does," Summit spokesman Paul Pflug said. But he added, "We thank Ms. Ray for doing the right thing."
The "Twilight" movies are based on the novels of Stephenie Meyer, so many of the plot turns are well known to readers. But keeping the "New Moon" script written by Melissa Rosenberg out of the public eye preserves which elements of the book will be included in the films, Pflug noted.
Last year's original "Twilight" film grossed over $350 million worldwide. paralleluniverse.msn.com/features/movies/twilight-sequel-script/?gt1=28140
So, the question; will I find one in the trash?
Scripts are indeed floating about, much like the tips of Robert Pattinson's physics-defying coif—but not freely, film developers tell me.
First things first: After some lady in St. Louis found the very real New Moon script in a trash can, she reportedly toyed with selling the info to tabloids before deciding to return the document to filmmakers.
The lady will now attend the New Moon premiere and get the script back, signed by Pattinson and others. It's almost as exciting as Pattz appearing in the lady's stylist chair and, you know, sparkling just for her.
So. What are your chances of finding the next Twilight script in your local dumpster?
Not that high.
"The reason that the New Moon script being found in a trash outside a hotel made so many headlines is because it is so unusual," script reader Katherine Brodsky tells me. "While not all scripts are guarded tightly and kept under lock and key attached to Ninja warriors, they are not usually just tossed around with no disregard."
Before the filming stage, scripts do indeed circulate between agents, actors, producers, directors and the like.
Security isn't particularly tight—it's typical to walk into production offices and see a pile of scripts stacked up in a corner—and coffee houses are rife with actors reading scripts, like, right out there in the open. With shorter actors, you can just walk right by them and get an eyeful of whatever they're reading.
After it is read, shredding or otherwise destroying a script is rare. Someone may even accidentally leave a script in a coffee shop with soy latte stains all over it. In that case, Brodsky explains, "for many projects, it's not the end of the world. But for highly anticipated, well-publicized projects, I imagine it would be a serious cause of stress and premature gray hairs."
There have been tales of some film and TV scripts being deliberately leaked to garner press—a story involving the new Dr. Who series comes to mind—and, of course, labels leak new tracks constantly. But for a high-profile film like Twilight, security would be atypically tight, Brodsky posits.
"It's part of a marketing strategy for them," Brodsky says. "They want fans to look out for the 'unknowns' in the film."
Right. As if anything having to do with Twilight needs more marketing.
First things first: After some lady in St. Louis found the very real New Moon script in a trash can, she reportedly toyed with selling the info to tabloids before deciding to return the document to filmmakers.
The lady will now attend the New Moon premiere and get the script back, signed by Pattinson and others. It's almost as exciting as Pattz appearing in the lady's stylist chair and, you know, sparkling just for her.
So. What are your chances of finding the next Twilight script in your local dumpster?
Not that high.
"The reason that the New Moon script being found in a trash outside a hotel made so many headlines is because it is so unusual," script reader Katherine Brodsky tells me. "While not all scripts are guarded tightly and kept under lock and key attached to Ninja warriors, they are not usually just tossed around with no disregard."
Before the filming stage, scripts do indeed circulate between agents, actors, producers, directors and the like.
Security isn't particularly tight—it's typical to walk into production offices and see a pile of scripts stacked up in a corner—and coffee houses are rife with actors reading scripts, like, right out there in the open. With shorter actors, you can just walk right by them and get an eyeful of whatever they're reading.
After it is read, shredding or otherwise destroying a script is rare. Someone may even accidentally leave a script in a coffee shop with soy latte stains all over it. In that case, Brodsky explains, "for many projects, it's not the end of the world. But for highly anticipated, well-publicized projects, I imagine it would be a serious cause of stress and premature gray hairs."
There have been tales of some film and TV scripts being deliberately leaked to garner press—a story involving the new Dr. Who series comes to mind—and, of course, labels leak new tracks constantly. But for a high-profile film like Twilight, security would be atypically tight, Brodsky posits.
"It's part of a marketing strategy for them," Brodsky says. "They want fans to look out for the 'unknowns' in the film."
Right. As if anything having to do with Twilight needs more marketing.
I can't help but wonder, and will have to wait til November to find out, should it have stayed there?
- Sorry.