"Four Women Together": An Introduction
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nebrisThis is from my Live Journal on Feb. 12th, 2006
~This is one of the few feature length screenplays that I will post here. I wrote the first draft in six weeks right around this time of year back in 1997, and then did a major re-write the following year.
It was originally written for the woman I call The Beautiful Monster, Sarah L. The re-write was actually done with a fair amount of input from her. Even though her character is not the nicest person, how many actresses have a script written about them?
Of course, it's not really about Sarah, but about my perversely romanticized version of her, but the fictional Sarah is very closely modeled upon the the real one. “Scary!”, as she would say.
The three other women are also modeled upon real women, though not quite like Sarah, except for Megan, who is very much Megan herself, the wounds from that relationship still being quite fresh when I set Pen to Paper. But Theresa and Gretchen, while grounded my two old flames of the same name, are actually more closely modeled upon two mutual friends of Sarah and myself, Jennifer and Samantha.
I'm willing to post this screenplay publicly because even in the present market this project would be a very hard sell and not really worth any one stealing.
However, “Four Women Together” is registered with The Writer's Guild of America, first in the spring of 1997 and then renewed in 2002, said renewal good until the spring of 2007.
The script itself runs about 116 pages in three Open Office files. I did attempt to post them all in one, but LJ said 'Error'. So, I just made three entries, each hyper linked to the next one. You will also note a number of typos, mostly character names not capitalized. That's a leftover from the old formatting program and way too much hassle to fix. Forgive me.
And now, without further ado, Four Women Together...
~This is one of the few feature length screenplays that I will post here. I wrote the first draft in six weeks right around this time of year back in 1997, and then did a major re-write the following year.
It was originally written for the woman I call The Beautiful Monster, Sarah L. The re-write was actually done with a fair amount of input from her. Even though her character is not the nicest person, how many actresses have a script written about them?
Of course, it's not really about Sarah, but about my perversely romanticized version of her, but the fictional Sarah is very closely modeled upon the the real one. “Scary!”, as she would say.
The three other women are also modeled upon real women, though not quite like Sarah, except for Megan, who is very much Megan herself, the wounds from that relationship still being quite fresh when I set Pen to Paper. But Theresa and Gretchen, while grounded my two old flames of the same name, are actually more closely modeled upon two mutual friends of Sarah and myself, Jennifer and Samantha.
I'm willing to post this screenplay publicly because even in the present market this project would be a very hard sell and not really worth any one stealing.
However, “Four Women Together” is registered with The Writer's Guild of America, first in the spring of 1997 and then renewed in 2002, said renewal good until the spring of 2007.
The script itself runs about 116 pages in three Open Office files. I did attempt to post them all in one, but LJ said 'Error'. So, I just made three entries, each hyper linked to the next one. You will also note a number of typos, mostly character names not capitalized. That's a leftover from the old formatting program and way too much hassle to fix. Forgive me.
And now, without further ado, Four Women Together...