In the original script Thornton was written as a poor guy who scrapes together the money to attend college with his son. Harold Ramis read it and told them it was funnier if he was obscenely rich. He was right. That note changed the entire movie. Harold Ramis was just brilliant when an idea just needed one rough edge polished, and this movie is a great example of that.
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Some writers look back at their early stuff and blanch, but I look back on the stuff I once wrote and marvel how good it came out given the resources and abilities I had available to me at the time.
Neill Blomkamp’s cyberpunk political allegory Elysium is exactly the kind of movie I used to dream about in the middle of the night on-shift cutting granite in rural Georgia in 1986 as I looked up into the night sky in-between rock loads.
In which a stray comment by EJ Feddes asking me if I was interested in any props from the Lost Auction practically forced me to design a Dharma spacesuit.
