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Ted Newsom wrote: ........Given the ephemeral verbosity of the treatment, the producer makes the call to hire a journeyman writer to adapt the story to a screenplay so studio people-- designers, costumers, budgeters, actors-- actually understand how to put the movie on film. EDIT: Given the wacky inappropriateness of THE ATOMIC MONSTER as a title... I wonder if this was a slug title, like DESTINY in the 1940s at Universal, something to plop onto the first page of a screenplay so at least there's SOMEthing there. The most awful example of this is I can think of is the Morey Amsterdam thing, DON'T WORRY, WE'LL THINK OF A TITLE. And they didn't. Like it would've helped.
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TomWeaver999 wrote: Bradbury's four compositions are titled:GROUND ZERO (THE ATOMIC MONSTER)ATOMIC MONSTERATOMIC MONSTERandIT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
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If I remember correctly--can't lay my hands on the book at the moment, nothing new in that--the three ATOMIC MONSTER drafts do vary somewhat.
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Ted Newsom wrote: So then, based on the progression of the drafts, the minor differences and overwhelming similarities, Bradbury's oft-repeated anti-Hollywood rant about writing two stories, one shttty and one Real Bradbury, is self-serving twaddle with no anchor in objective reality... correct? And Bill Alland, like him or hate him, was essentially telling the factual truth when he called bllshhttt on Bradbury's version of events. Correct?
The 40 years-plus and dozens of movie and TV credits between It Came from Outer Space and our interview had obviously blotted out the two-treatments incident in Alland's mind; Bradbury's version must be true because the two treatments still exist.
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