Johnson’s two foundations of determining a script’s marketplace worth are artifactual value and content value. The first is usually linked to the person who owned the screenplay, like the screenplays above that belonged to Bunuel, Lennon and Schrader. His 1997 memoir, Monster: Living Off The Big Screen, detailed how one of their screenplays moved through no less than 27 drafts, over an eight-year period, before becoming the commercially successful Up Close and Personal. Before Johnson’s landmark research and organization, one of the few guides to the torturous journey screenplays can take was offered by the late journalist and screenwriter, John Gregory Dunne, who was married to writer Joan Didion. The Celluloid Paper Trail by Kevin Johnson It’s jam-packed with 130 examples of easily recognized American and British films in nearly every genre, documenting phase after phase of script development. At $65 it’s a luxury purchase your deep pockets producer (ha!) or nearby university library (more likely) might want to invest in. Now Johnson has authored a deeper, more descriptive guide to film script identification: The Celluloid Paper Trail (Oak Knoll Press, 2019). They’re gorgeous books, crammed with fascinating book-to-screen insights-scholarly treasures for anyone partial to hardboiled gumshoes, femme fatales and the early crime fiction that grew them. Johnson’s already authored The Dark Page (2009), two huge, magnificent volumes showcasing original 30s and 40s cloth crime novels that became seminal films noir. If you’re an indie filmmaker or film student, chances are an early or even post-production copy of your own screenplay isn’t quite ready for the window of Royal Books. These are high-end collectibles, and their target markets aren’t budding screenwriters or casual readers of screenplays. Several of his current offerings include Luis Bunuel’s signed production script of Nazarin (1959), $25,000 John Lennon’s script of How I Won the War (1967), $8,500 and Paul Schrader’s 1983 early draft of what would become Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), for a mere $1,750. Kevin Johnson, who runs a rare book store and site, Royal Books in Baltimore, sells original movie scripts. Nice gifts or learning tools, right? But lately the tables have disappeared-maybe there just weren’t enough budding screenwriters left in New York City, let alone readers of screenplays. They were clean photocopies, bound with metal brads, each priced at $15, and some of the script covers had their original color tints. Big screenplays like Avatar, Fight Club, Reservoir Dogs and Star Wars. (All formats) 3.There used to be a guy selling movie scripts in Manhattan, from sidewalk tables on lower Broadway and around Soho.
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