CLICK the floppy to the left if you want to peep the very FIRST DRAFT of 8MM. Embarrassingly "warts and all," as I have described it in the past, this is pretty much exactly what went out as a spec.
I have never seen the movie. And I have not read the script in a long time myself, but will try to someday soon and may add a few comments.
What strikes me is how ridiculously overlong it is, and that's only partly because of my self-indulgent over-describing. It was 138 pages when it went out as a spec script, but with the formatting I use now -- which is more strict -- it's a hefty 140. Ugh.
I used to double space between the groups of related scenes, but nowadays insert a "CUT TO:" in the far right instead, which would be three spaces between, not just two, which would make it EVEN LONGER!
More on formatting later + elsewhere.
(Amazing illustration above is from the book by ARTHUR RACKHAM.) It was all KEVIN YAGHER's idea to adapt SLEEPY HOLLOW, and basically this script is what we came up with; pretty far along in the development process with Scott Rudin. There is an out-of-print book -- incorrectly credited solely to me -- containing a vastly rewritten script, but here is the script before all that.
Click to the right... one of my proudest funtimes achievements. Written for a science fiction version of TALES FROM THE CRYPT, basically. The series was short-lived. I worked with the late, great SCOTT NIMERFRO. Love + miss him.
The legendary Tobe Hooper directed a great cast.
I laugh every time I see it.
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👈 This is the very FIRST DRAFT I sent out as a spec script -- all of my sad AMATEURISHNESS on display.
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