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Fri 01 Jan 2010Screenwriter
Here come the Avatar imitators, writes DONALD CLARKE
About a decade ago, I bumped into a scriptwriter who was then being propelled through a particularly gruesome (though nicely lucrative) version of creative Hades. He had been hired to write a disaster movie based around the destruction of the Hindenburg. The commission came from a major studio, so he didn’t feel able to turn it down, but, the more he thought about it, the less sense the project made.
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