Monday, June 17, 2013
Important Update
So apparently another writer is disputing M. Night Shyamalan's claim that he wrote late '90s glasses-removal classic She's All That. Let's just take a moment for that: the man who was on top of the Hollywood heap after penning and directing The Sixth Sense (perhaps Mischa Barton's finest work) is now engaged in a slap battle over authorship of the teen movie perhaps best known for not being Varsity Blues or Cruel Intentions. What's next, a scuttlebutt over whether he was director of photography for Melissa Joan Hart lazy-eye showcase Drive Me Crazy? A kerfuffle over costume designer rights for She's The Man? A lot has changed in just over a decade.
But anyway, I don't claim to have any insider knowledge of the actual writer of She's All That, so my apologies to the other guy. For what it's worth, Entertainment Weekly is quoting the Miramax producer of She's All That (yes, there was a producer) as saying that both M (I call him M, since we were briefly married in the 1970s) and the other guy did drafts with important elements of the finished product (yes, they considered it to be finished). Which is sort of like when your mother says that she loves all of her children equally but in different ways.
So let's just say congratulations to everyone involved in the production of this moderately successful teen romantic comedy from more than a decade ago, shall we?
So apparently another writer is disputing M. Night Shyamalan's claim that he wrote late '90s glasses-removal classic She's All That. Let's just take a moment for that: the man who was on top of the Hollywood heap after penning and directing The Sixth Sense (perhaps Mischa Barton's finest work) is now engaged in a slap battle over authorship of the teen movie perhaps best known for not being Varsity Blues or Cruel Intentions. What's next, a scuttlebutt over whether he was director of photography for Melissa Joan Hart lazy-eye showcase Drive Me Crazy? A kerfuffle over costume designer rights for She's The Man? A lot has changed in just over a decade.
But anyway, I don't claim to have any insider knowledge of the actual writer of She's All That, so my apologies to the other guy. For what it's worth, Entertainment Weekly is quoting the Miramax producer of She's All That (yes, there was a producer) as saying that both M (I call him M, since we were briefly married in the 1970s) and the other guy did drafts with important elements of the finished product (yes, they considered it to be finished). Which is sort of like when your mother says that she loves all of her children equally but in different ways.
So let's just say congratulations to everyone involved in the production of this moderately successful teen romantic comedy from more than a decade ago, shall we?
