ShogunRua wrote:Pickpocket wrote:DrewTheDude wrote:Wasn't this movie suppose to have a completely different and less generic script than what was made? I heard Disney made them change it for some reason.
It had 4 different writers so you know it's going to be mediocre at best. Has any movie with 3+ writers ever been good?
Depends on their roles and who they are. Once Upon a Time in The West is credited with 4 writers, of which at least 3 were important in the script's conception.
per the imdb:
Writing Credits
Sergio Donati ... (screenplay by) &
Sergio Leone ... (screenplay by)
Dario Argento ... (from a story by) &
Bernardo Bertolucci ... (from a story by) &
Sergio Leone ... (from a story by)
I take that to mean 2 of them wrote it while the others just had an idea. This is from the wikipedia:
Leone commissioned Bernardo Bertolucci and Dario Argento—both of whom were film critics before becoming directors—to help him develop the film in late 1966. The men spent much of the following year watching and discussing numerous classic Westerns such as High Noon, The Iron Horse, The Comancheros, and The Searchers at Leone's house, and constructed a story made up almost entirely of "references" to American Westerns.
Not sure if that is a good example