🔴9 Original Scripts That Would've Ruined Great Movies🔴
0It's natural for a movie to go through several script changes before production, but some changes are much more important than others. Most of writing is rewriting. A first draft of a script is meant to be analyzed, pulled apart and reworked. This process helps weed out the bad ideas which don't quite work, and it can also help with identifying what the script is lacking. Big-budget movies will put their scripts through countless rewrites until the finished product is as good as it can be, and this has helped avoid some mistakes that would have ruined great movies.
Even some of the best movies of all time only narrowly avoided terrible mistakes. If they had stuck with early drafts of their scripts, movies like Ghostbusters and The Truman Show would never have achieved the success they had. Sometimes a script needs a page-one rewrite to create a new plot, but sometimes the necessary changes are a lot less obvious. This is when the process of multiple rewrites can be extremely beneficial, because writers become intimately familiar with their work, and they can tweak minute details to save the entire movie.
Dan Aykroyd has a keen interest in the supernatural, and Ghostbusters was his passion project. Inspired by an article on quantum physics and parapsychology in 1981, he initially conceived it as a vehicle for himself, SNL legend John Belushi, and Eddie Murphy. Belushi's death in 1982 led him to turn instead to fellow SNL star Bill Murray.
Originally titled "Ghost Smashers," the story was set in the distant future of 2012, where the ghost hunting business was already well-established.