Verlag: Douglas/Reuther Productions, Los Angeles, 1996
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
Final Draft script for the 1997 film. A FBI agent undergoes a face transplant to look like a terrorist in order to infiltrate the terrorist's gang and discover the location of a bomb. Meanwhile, the terrorist, who has awakened to discover out his face has been removed and placed on the agent, forces the doctors to transplant the agent's face onto his in order to get his revenge. The second and most highly regarded of the six films legendary Hong Kong action director John Woo made in Hollywood, and perhaps the purest distillation of his wildly over-the-top neo-noir aesthetic ever put to celluloid. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Malibu, California Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated October 17, 1996, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters Mike Werb and Michael Colleary and revisions by Wesley Strick. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Silver and Ursini, American Neo-Noir: The Complete List, #154. Spicer Neo-Noir.
Verlag: Paramount Pictures, Hollywood, 1996
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
Revised Final rainbow production archive and script for the 1997 film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member D. Maynard, with their name in manuscript ink on the half-title page. With 88 tipped in Polaroid photographs detailing cast makeup and hairstyles for particular scenes, including several images of stars Gina Gershon, John Carroll Lynch, Joan Allen, Thomas Jane, and Dominique Swain. A FBI agent undergoes a face transplant to look like a terrorist in order to infiltrate the terrorist's gang and discover the location of a bomb. Meanwhile, the terrorist, who has awakened to discover out his face has been removed and placed on the agent, forces the doctors to transplant the agent's face onto his in order to get his revenge. The second and most highly regarded of the six films legendary Hong Kong action director John Woo made in Hollywood, and perhaps the purest distillation of his wildly over-the-top neo-noir aesthetic ever put to celluloid, with a premise so gloriously nuts that one wonders how it ever was greenlit in the first place. (Answer: it was the 1990s.) Housed in a black three ring binder. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present, dated October 22, 1996, noted as Revised Final, with credits for Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, and revisions by Wesley Strick. 137 leaves, with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication, first generation copy, with rainbow revision pages throughout, dated variously between 11/7/96 and 3/13/97. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine. Grant US. Spicer Neo-Noir.