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I've been following this thread for the past weeBill Warren wrote: I don't know if Bradbury was then a member of the WGA, or how much control they had, but it does seem to me that Bradbury should have been given a co-screenplay credit. That would have brought him more money--which is probably the real reason U-I didn't list him with Essex as the screenwriter.
I've been following this thread for the past weeBill Warren wrote:
Aug 12 10 1:16 PM
Bill Warren wrote: Rakshasa wrote: I read the book first and man, the 1980's film version of SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES was a major disappointment to me. For starters, in the book, I was terrified of the scary, otherworldly Dust Witch. In the movie, it was Eartha Kitt. . No, it was Pam Grier.
Rakshasa wrote: I read the book first and man, the 1980's film version of SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES was a major disappointment to me. For starters, in the book, I was terrified of the scary, otherworldly Dust Witch. In the movie, it was Eartha Kitt.
Aug 12 10 1:31 PM
delgadosaur wrote: Well, the air of some of the comments seem to trumpet one author at anothers' expense, and I thought Bill Warren put it quite nicely when he stated in an earlier post that we don't really need to list, rank or categorize things, people or places the way we do as a society and on this forum..
Bill Warren wrote: Oh, Ted, gimme a @@%*!%+%* break. Bradbury was then, and is now, the most famous science fiction writer on Earth. I guess fans today assume that what they see around them is the way it always was. In the very late forties and on into the fifties, science fiction in general underwent a gigantic burst of popularity; the number of magazines on the stands annually increased from something like eight to around thirty--and this was exactly when science fiction films kicked. It was also exactly when Bradbury's stories were appearing in not just science fiction magazines, but The Saturday Evening Post (possibly also Collier's; haven't checked that), the most popular general interest magazine of the day. He was prestigious in a way that only a later writer like Stephen King became. He was the big cheese in terms of science fiction. There was a very good reason that his name was plastered all over the ads for BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS and IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE.
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I don't know if Bradbury was then a member of the WGA, or how much control they had, but it does seem to me that Bradbury should have been given a co-screenplay credit. That would have brought him more money--which is probably the real reason U-I didn't list him with Essex as the screenwriter.
Aug 12 10 2:27 PM
Aug 12 10 2:35 PM
Rakshasa wrote:I read the book first and man, the 1980's film version of SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES was a major disappointment to me. For starters, in the book, I was terrified of the scary, otherworldly Dust Witch.
Aug 12 10 3:10 PM
delgadosaur wrote: Okay Rak, I see your point, but as the conversation went on, I think that Bill and others pro-Bradbury, myself included, softened their respective stances toward a 'hey there's lots of good sci-fi writers around, why argue about it'. Sorry if my opinion became too sharp, was not my intention.
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delgadosaur wrote: Okay Rak, I see your point, but as the conversation went on, I think that Bill and others pro-Bradbury, myself included, softened their respective stances toward a 'hey there's lots of good sci-fi writers around, why argue about it'.
Ted Newsom wrote: When a studio determines what they believe is final screen credit, it is submitted to the Writers Guild. At that point, the writers who have been involved have the option of arguing for greater (or, rarely, lesser) credit than the studio suggests. If it gets arguable, an anonymous three-writer panel reads all drafts of the material without name attribution and comes to a consensus of what credit should go to whom: Writer B gets story credit, Writer D and G should split credit, etc. The Guild also factos in things like contracts-- what job was the writer hired for? Creating an original story? Adapting a novel? Writing a full screenplay?
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Rakshasa wrote:.... lit the fuse that led to the barrage of examples contesting his fiery proclamation.
Aug 12 10 3:58 PM
Bill Warren wrote:I didn't say anything particularly pro-Bradbury; I said he was the most famous SF writer in the world--which he has been, ever since about 1951. That is not a claim that he's the best SF writer in the world. This isn't a matter of "he's number one" except in the narrow area of fame.
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