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Spectre - Screenplay - Revised Interim Draft
Screenplay by John Logan
Revised by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade
Revised Interim Draft: October 8, 2014
Revised by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade
Revised Interim Draft: October 8, 2014
139 pages, Unknown Binding
About the author
John Logan
156 books83 followersLogan was a successful playwright in Chicago for many years before turning to screenwriting. His first play, Never the Sinner, tells the story of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case. Subsequent plays include Hauptmann, about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and Riverview, a musical melodrama set at Chicago's famed amusement park.
His play Red, about artist Mark Rothko, was produced by the Donmar Warehouse, London in December 2009, and on Broadway, where it received six Tony Awards in mid-June, 2010, the most of any play, including best play, best direction of a play for Michael Grandage and best featured actor in a play for Eddie Redmayne. Redmayne and Alfred Molina had originated their roles in London and brought them to New York for a limited run ending in late June.
Logan wrote Any Given Sunday and the television movie RKO 281, before gaining an Academy Award nomination for co-writing the Best Picture-winner, Gladiator in 2000. He gained another nomination for writing 2004's The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese.
Other notable films written by Logan include Star Trek: Nemesis, The Time Machine, The Last Samurai, and the Tim Burton-directed musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he received a Golden Globe Award.
Logan's most recent feature films include Rango, an animated feature starring Johnny Depp and directed by Gore Verbinski, the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, and the film adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret directed by Martin Scorsese. Logan co-wrote the scripts to the James Bond films, Skyfall and Spectre.
His play Red, about artist Mark Rothko, was produced by the Donmar Warehouse, London in December 2009, and on Broadway, where it received six Tony Awards in mid-June, 2010, the most of any play, including best play, best direction of a play for Michael Grandage and best featured actor in a play for Eddie Redmayne. Redmayne and Alfred Molina had originated their roles in London and brought them to New York for a limited run ending in late June.
Logan wrote Any Given Sunday and the television movie RKO 281, before gaining an Academy Award nomination for co-writing the Best Picture-winner, Gladiator in 2000. He gained another nomination for writing 2004's The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese.
Other notable films written by Logan include Star Trek: Nemesis, The Time Machine, The Last Samurai, and the Tim Burton-directed musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he received a Golden Globe Award.
Logan's most recent feature films include Rango, an animated feature starring Johnny Depp and directed by Gore Verbinski, the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, and the film adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret directed by Martin Scorsese. Logan co-wrote the scripts to the James Bond films, Skyfall and Spectre.
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May 5, 2022The 2014.10.17 draft and the previous draft, 2014.01.10, have some little differences here and there, and some big ones.
Little ones are cutting down extraneous lines of dialogue (“You’re joking. Half the building could hear” become “Half the building could hear” as well as some scene direction. The timeline has also been changed, with lines like “a few days ago” becoming “nine months ago” in regards to M’s (Dench’s) tape.
Some additional lines are odd, such as the new draft noting that tech companies and “foreign interests” are apart of the new merger, which M opposes, as opposed to the simple tech companies getting under M’s skin. The addition of off-screen flashback dialogue is in the new draft, put there to clarify the scene's meaning.
The new draft drops Pruitt (and adds expository dialogue in the opening regarding the bomber’s plan and Bond questioning a henchman about who the Pale King is.
There's a shakeup of dialogue in M's office. The previous draft ended with M telling Bond he's grounded, the new draft has that much sooner. Bond and C in the original draft talk about the cameras, with C appreciating his candor. The new draft has Bond and C talk about coffee, with C appreciating his candor. It's more subtle than the previous draft.
The funeral scene adds a new line in the stage direction (black robes on white marble steps) but it’s more for the cinematographer's sake than the viewer’s. The old draft has Lucia calling Bond crazy and they talk/flirt about that before they make love, the new draft has Bond interrogate her more about her husband, opting for more plot-heavy talk/flirt. It inadvertently gives the scene a perversely morbid outlook. Lucia also states that the password is Diana, her old husband’s mistress, while the new draft only has her say “you’ll see.” Bond later sees the statue. The meaning is the same in both drafts, but this more ominous take is to clarify confusion between Diana (and what she represents) and a hypothetical person.
During the meeting,the old draft has C mention that a terrorist organization is forming and will grow more powerful because they operate alone. This brings up the issue of: How does he now? The new draft avoids this by having him bring up how they’re all isolated, but can they pool their resources together to become something greater.
The old draft has C in the secretary's room listening in on Bond's/Moneypenny's conversation and later telling M about it. The new draft combines these scenes, with M taking note that C is listening in on every agent's conversation. It sets up the conflict later on.
The old draft has Moneypenny discovers that Mr. White's old war buddy is Heinrich Stockman, and Stockman likewise then meets Bond. The new draft doesn't entirely go with the Stockman angle. It has Moneypenny discovering Franz Obenhauser while Bond thinks the guy is Heinrich Stockman.
The old draft gives Blofeld a weird backstory, having him with a degenerative body that needs new organs every so often. He kills people, or pays people to kill poor people, to get him fresh organs, and thus is often on pain medication.
Both drafts have Mr. White talking about the cannibalism that Stravo, I mean Stockman, engaged in. Both drafts have 'Stockman' torturing Bond by burning him alive in a solar furnace. Neither draft has the explosion that takes Blofeld's eye. Neither draft has Stockman actually called Blofeld. The old draft has Bond strangle Stockman, the new one has Bond shoot him in the head.
I like the finished film better than both of these drafts.
Little ones are cutting down extraneous lines of dialogue (“You’re joking. Half the building could hear” become “Half the building could hear” as well as some scene direction. The timeline has also been changed, with lines like “a few days ago” becoming “nine months ago” in regards to M’s (Dench’s) tape.
Some additional lines are odd, such as the new draft noting that tech companies and “foreign interests” are apart of the new merger, which M opposes, as opposed to the simple tech companies getting under M’s skin. The addition of off-screen flashback dialogue is in the new draft, put there to clarify the scene's meaning.
The new draft drops Pruitt (and adds expository dialogue in the opening regarding the bomber’s plan and Bond questioning a henchman about who the Pale King is.
There's a shakeup of dialogue in M's office. The previous draft ended with M telling Bond he's grounded, the new draft has that much sooner. Bond and C in the original draft talk about the cameras, with C appreciating his candor. The new draft has Bond and C talk about coffee, with C appreciating his candor. It's more subtle than the previous draft.
The funeral scene adds a new line in the stage direction (black robes on white marble steps) but it’s more for the cinematographer's sake than the viewer’s. The old draft has Lucia calling Bond crazy and they talk/flirt about that before they make love, the new draft has Bond interrogate her more about her husband, opting for more plot-heavy talk/flirt. It inadvertently gives the scene a perversely morbid outlook. Lucia also states that the password is Diana, her old husband’s mistress, while the new draft only has her say “you’ll see.” Bond later sees the statue. The meaning is the same in both drafts, but this more ominous take is to clarify confusion between Diana (and what she represents) and a hypothetical person.
During the meeting,the old draft has C mention that a terrorist organization is forming and will grow more powerful because they operate alone. This brings up the issue of: How does he now? The new draft avoids this by having him bring up how they’re all isolated, but can they pool their resources together to become something greater.
The old draft has C in the secretary's room listening in on Bond's/Moneypenny's conversation and later telling M about it. The new draft combines these scenes, with M taking note that C is listening in on every agent's conversation. It sets up the conflict later on.
The old draft has Moneypenny discovers that Mr. White's old war buddy is Heinrich Stockman, and Stockman likewise then meets Bond. The new draft doesn't entirely go with the Stockman angle. It has Moneypenny discovering Franz Obenhauser while Bond thinks the guy is Heinrich Stockman.
The old draft gives Blofeld a weird backstory, having him with a degenerative body that needs new organs every so often. He kills people, or pays people to kill poor people, to get him fresh organs, and thus is often on pain medication.
Both drafts have Mr. White talking about the cannibalism that Stravo, I mean Stockman, engaged in. Both drafts have 'Stockman' torturing Bond by burning him alive in a solar furnace. Neither draft has the explosion that takes Blofeld's eye. Neither draft has Stockman actually called Blofeld. The old draft has Bond strangle Stockman, the new one has Bond shoot him in the head.
I like the finished film better than both of these drafts.
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