I think French Kissing is up to 12 ish total rewrites. It's wild to see the things that have survived each demolition and rebuild, not always what I would have expected, now those images or scenes are so strong because they've been around the longest, they hold the script up. Survival of the fittest scene.
Really interesting to hear your insights. I've just started this year to write scripts and reading your normalizing a long rewrite process is helpful to see.
I think French Kissing is up to 12 ish total rewrites. It's wild to see the things that have survived each demolition and rebuild, not always what I would have expected, now those images or scenes are so strong because they've been around the longest, they hold the script up. Survival of the fittest scene.
Oh I love this! It really does become a script made up only of the stuff that “stood the test of time.”
Thanks for sharing the process, Colby. I agree: We need to normalize people giving a shit and making things better...
Really interesting to hear your insights. I've just started this year to write scripts and reading your normalizing a long rewrite process is helpful to see.