I'm up, I'm up - I don't seem to be able to sleep past eight o'clock these days.
JMK - We wrote an original screenplay for The Faculty back in 1990 or so. Couldn't give it away until Scream came out - then it got optioned in two hours by Miramax/Dimension - Mr. Williamson was originally slated to rewrite and direct, but Rodriguez came on board and that was that. He kept the structure of our script, and the two characters that resemble what we did were the principal and the Elijah Wood character (he used our female lead's name for Elijah - Casey, and the principal's name was the only other name he left alone). So, the structure, much of the story (but not the particulars) were ours, but not one line of dialogue remains. While I think our idea was great, I don't think our script was, and he did what he needed to do - however, there were a couple of sequences in ours that he should have kept and they would have made his film a bigger hit, at least from where I stand.
