Redbeard Simmons (1 results)

Revised First Draft script for the 1991 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher, with her annotations throughout the script, highlighting locations, and a post-it note in her hand affixed to the front wrapper verso, noting sets to build. A black comedy about a group of mutant shapeshifting bugs who travel from Brazil to suburban Ohio, where they disguise themselves as a human family in order to wreak nuclear destruction on the town's unsuspecting inhabitants. Shot in 1988 and 1989, the film's release was delayed until 1991 due to financial problems with New World Pictures. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker, construction accountant/estimator/buyer, and carpenter on over 20 movies, including "The Last Seduction" (1994), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "From Dusk Till Dawn" (1994), "The Horse Whisperer (1998), "Joy Ride" (2001), and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas, including "The Bridge" (2014), "Ozark" (2017), and "Yellowstone" (2018). Shot on location in Oshkosh, Appleton and Neenah, Wisconsin. Generic white New World Pictures wrappers. Title page present, dated 11/12/87, noted as Revised First Draft, with an annotation noting copy No. 11 in manuscript ink, and credits for screenwriters Michael Lehmann and Redbeard Simmons. 112 leaves, with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with front wrapper dampstained and partially detached from the binding. Bound internally with two gold brads.