Comments on: How to Revisit Fried Worms

By: Leon Braun

Leon Braun — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:31:32 +0000

Just finished reading your script for How to Eat Fried Worms. Wow! It's a crime this wasn't what ended up on the screen. Great, live-action kids movies are so rare these days. I can't believe Walden Media had the chance to make this one and blew it.

This was one of my favourite books as a kid (along with Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing), and you did a brilliant job of making a movie out of it. You know that list of "greatest unproduced scripts in Hollywood"? Screw technicalities, this belongs at the top.

By: Adam Singer

Adam Singer — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:16:08 +0000

How to Eat Fried Worms was such a good movie. I really enjoyed it.

By: MaryAn

MaryAn — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:03:01 +0000

Never been to the downloads before. Good stuff for Big Fish, too. Thanks for the education.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:56:54 +0000

BILLY So anyway, I have a joke.

That, and about 17 other things in this script made me laugh out loud. Great stuff, Mr. August.

By: Moviequill

Moviequill — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:01:01 +0000

TOM Where are you from?

BILLY (cocks it) Los Angeles

5 pages in and I cracked wide, John... great stuff

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:50:40 +0000

There’s always gotta be one jailhouse lawyer out there just waiting to proffer his unsolicited advice. John’s doing us a favor by putting it up here. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Walden Media can go pound sand.

By: Kevin Arbouet

Kevin Arbouet — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:35:29 +0000

Peter:

The studio legally owns John's script. But it's not necessarily illegal for him to post it here. People who come to this site don't pay a fee in order to read it. If John was getting money for it, then you'd better believe Walden Media would shut this site down quicker than Julian McMahon says the word, "Cock", on Nip/Tuck.

By: Einar Ã?rnason, Iceland

Einar Ã?rnason, Iceland — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:31:19 +0000

Hmmmm……I have just finished reading the first ten pages of your worm script. I realised as I read on that these were the first non blog pages I have read by you. In my head I saw a movie…..thatÂ´s a compliment, it usually never happens when I read a screenplay. Til hamingju, Ã¾Ãº ert Ã¡gÃ¦tur.

By: Jon Bowerbank

Jon Bowerbank — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:52:44 +0000

I remember seeing the trailer for this in the theatre, it looks like an entertaining kid flick strictly reserved for Saturday afternoon matinee showings, but nothing more. It probably would have been more successful as a TV movie on Nickelodeon or something.

I'm guessing the film really struggled structurally. And just seeing the trailer you can kind of see that it's a weak story without any good hook to attract any real audience.

By: From New York

From New York — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:33:07 +0000

Go to hell bald man !!

By: John August

John August — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:30:29 +0000

Peter --

Craig Mazin over at artfulwriter.com is the man to ask about the legalities of publishing a script. It's part of the WGA deal that screenwriters hold on to such rights, but since I'm not the credited screenwriter, where does that put me and this script?

Honestly, I'm not inclined to worry about it.

Unless Walden Media decided they wanted to remake Fried Worms with my script rather than Dolman's -- a probability that approaches zero -- no one involved is going to make a cent off of figuring out the exact chain of title on something I wrote 10 years ago for another company altogether.

The script can't be shot, it can only be read. So I might as well let people read it.