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Archives for 2004

Archives and individual entry pages rebuilt

February 3, 2004 Geek Alert

Given Dreamweaver and a couple of free days, pretty much anyone can put up a website. The more difficult thing, I’ve realized, is keeping it updated. To that end, I’ve been using Movable Type, the remarkable blogging software sent down from Heaven. With Movable Type, it’s easy for me to add short articles like this, or new Question-and-Answers.

The problem is that Movable Type works fundamentally differently from the rest of the site. It insists — quite reasonably — on storing articles in places where it can find them. When Google’s indexing-spiders visits the site, they store these locations rather than ones I might prefer. So a person searching for “Big Fish script” gets taken to an ugly article entry that in no way resembles the rest of the site.

No longer. Over the weekend, I updated the templates so that you get the standard navigation bar throughout the site. Hopefully, everything feels consistent, although on deeper level, there’s still two different systems at work. You’ll notice that new Q&A’s have comments; old ones don’t. Archives should show properly. Also, articles now list their permalinks. This is the address you should use if you want to link from another site.

Please leave a comment if you find broken links, or things that don’t work as expected.

Go scripts added

February 2, 2004 Go, Projects

go_logoAlthough it’s available elsewhere on the net, I’ve decided to make the screenplay for Go available on the site. There are two variations to choose from. The first is the original spec script I wrote in 1997. The second is the final shooting draft, which incorporates the changes that happened during production.

As a bonus feature — because all things these days require bonus features — you can also find a longer audition scene I wrote when we were casting the Mannie character. It was never going to be included in the film, but helped us decide on Nathan Bexton for the role. For the record, the references to “Charlie’s Angels” are just coincidence (or perhaps, fate). I wasn’t involved with the Charlie’s Angels movie at all when I wrote this.

Early Daniel Wallace interview added

February 2, 2004 Projects

In an effort to finally get the Projects section updated, I’ve added the transcript of my very first meeting with Daniel Wallace, the author of Big Fish. It’s interesting looking back at the project before there was a script. (In fact, the book itself hadn’t yet come out.)

Paperback version of shooting script now available

January 27, 2004 Big Fish, Projects

BF book coverNewmarket Press has published a paperback version of my screenplay for BIG FISH. You can order it here.

How does the paperback compare to the .pdf version available on this site? Well, it’s the same script, but it adds a kind foreward by Daniel Wallace (who wrote the novel), a very long intro by me, photographs, and production notes. Plus, it looks better on a shelf.

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