C H A P T E R 9
DIRECTOR’S DEVELOPMENT
Strategies
Screen works are too expensive and inflexible to test and improve as playwrights do with their first audiences, so this must be accomplished during the script devel-opment and cast rehearsal periods. It may involve simplifying, cutting, compress-ing, or expanding the material, or even wholesale rewriting to take advantage of the way players realize the piece. Feature films I worked on delivered new script pages down to the day of shooting. Writers loathe this compulsive rewriting, but their ideas of completion arise from habits of solo creation. Filmmaking is an organic, physical process that must adapt to the unfolding reality of cast and shooting.
Only by sustained and methodical script ...
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