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Robin Swicord (Little Women) wrote her first draft of [Benjamin Button] in 1990, and it was promptly deemed "one of the 10 best unproduced screenplays" by Premiere magazine. Even so, Swicord wrote a dozen more drafts throughout the '90s. And while she is credited in the movie for her "screen story," it was [Eric Roth] who finally got the screenplay credit. And Roth couldn't say how good her screenplay was.
"The truth is: I never read Robin's screenplay ever, and I know very little about it except through the producers," he says. "I know from everybody who read it that it was a great screenplay, and why it wasn't done, I couldn't say."There are certain ingredients that feel similar... the picaresque nature of the piece, the episodic nature," Roth says. "But I like to think that they're just very different. Some of it is much more personal because both my parents died while I was writing this, so there were obviously personalized things about love and life and death."See the full content of this document
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The Curious Case of the Curious Case
LOS ANGELES -- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the eccentric history of a man who ages backwards, born a wizened, grey-haired old man and dying an infant. Powered by the star wattage of Brad Pitt and Cate Bl...
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