Talk:Script doctor

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Is it accurate to refer to script doctors as "rescu[ing] failing film projects." Towne was a script doctor on The Godfather, and Sorkin was a script doctor on Shindler's List. Were these films really "failing?" Watchsmart 03:41, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Changed. Watchsmart 06:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, With no malice or ill will, I have relocated this list here so that it can be improved. THere are several problems with it. First it is a list, and encyclopedias should generally have prose instead of lists. Second, the list not put into a useful order (e.g., chronological, by genre, etc). Thirdly, the list is completely unreferenced. If Wikipedia is to be a reliable reference source, we cannot have unreferenced lists like this. It is just too easy for jokers to add in false information. For example, I could have easily added in the false claim that

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Daniele Luttazzi? Who is? Sources? ................................................................ Notable script doctors

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• Judd Apatow: The Cable Guy, The Wedding Singer
• John August: Blue Streak, Jurassic Park III, Minority Report, The Rundown
• Roger Avary: True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Crying Freeman
• David Ayer: Taking Lives
• James Cameron: Point Break
• Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais: Never Say Never Again, The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II
• Frank Darabont: Minority Report, Saving Private Ryan
• Carrie Fisher: Hook (Julia Roberts' dialogue), Lethal Weapon 3 (Rene Russo's dialogue), Made In America, My Girl 2, The River Wild, Love Affair
• Scott Frank: Saving Private Ryan, Dawn Of The Dead
• Chaplin, Last Action Hero, Malice, Fierce Creatures
• Akiva Goldsman: The Specialist, Charlie's Angels
• The Man With The Golden Arm, North to Alaska, Mutiny On The Bounty, Cleopatra, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, Casino Royale
• David Mamet: Ronin
• Tom Mankiewicz: Superman
• Steve Oedekerk: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• Billy Ray: Stuart Little
• Dean Riesner: High Plains Drifter, Das Boot, The Sting II, Blue Thunder, Starman
• David O. Russell: Stuart Little
• Diamonds, No Turning Back, Beethoven 1 1/2
• Shane Salerno: Breakdown, Alien vs. Predator, Ghost Rider
• John Sayles: The Fugitive, Apollo 13, Mimic
• Kevin Smith: Overnight Delivery, Coyote Ugly
• Aaron Sorkin: Enemy of the State, Bulworth, The Rock, Excess Baggage and Schindler's List
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
• Mission: Impossible II
• Quentin Tarantino: Past Midnight, It's Pat, Crimson Tide (Star Trek, The Enemy Below, and Silver Surfer references), The Rock, Hostel
• James Toback: Disclosure, Crimson Tide
• Michael Tolkin: The Haunting, Dawn Of The Dead
• Robert Towne: The Godfather (the scene in the garden between Marlon Brando and Al Pacino), Tough Guys Don't Dance, Crimson Tide (the dinner scene discussing nuclear war)
• Norman Wexler: Lipstick, The Fan
• Joss Whedon: Speed, Waterworld, Twister, X-Men
• Daniele Luttazzi for Comedy Central and HBO
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Ive added additional defintion of script doctor, unrelated to the first definition, not sure how it could be done otherwise, I hope this is ok?2829 VC 13:55, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]