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There was no screenplay for Mad Max: Fury Road. Instead director George Miller worked with Brendan McCarthy to produce 3,500 storyboards. McCarthy whose specialty is drawing storyboards and comic book art received a writing credit.

Ben Affleck dropped out of college after a creative writing professor ridiculed an early draft of The Good Will Hunting screenplay.

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1. M. Night Shyamalan once watched Nickelodeon kid show 'Are You Afraid Of The Dark?', and particularly enjoyed an episode called "The Tale of the Dream Girl", which is about a kid who can communicate with the dead. The episode would influence him to write the screenplay for The Sixth Sense.

2. Peter Benchley, the author of the novel 'Jaws' and co-writer of the film's screenplay, was disturbed by the surge in shark hunting after the film's release because of the misrepresentation of sharks in his work, and later said, "Knowing what I know now, I could never write that book today."

3. Walt Disney hired "Brave New World" novelist Aldous Huxley to write the screenplay for "Alice in Wonderland" but he quit because Disney kept talking over him

4. Novels are not the only form of writing by Dean Koontz. He also writes short stories, poetry, and screenplays.

5. The movie 'Beverly Hills Cop' was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

6. Sheryl Crow lied about writing "Leaving Las Vegas" (the song) which was likely a contributing reason driving the author of "Leaving Las Vegas" (the screenplay) to commit suicide

7. When the Academy Awards honored the screenplay for "The Bridge on the River Kwai," they gave the Oscar to Pierre Boulle, who did not actually write the screenplay, but the book it's based on. The real screenwriters, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, were blacklisted.

8. Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park was published in 1990. Even before it was published Steven Spielberg had acquired the movie rights for $1.5 million. Michael Crichton was also paid another $500,000 to co-write the screenplay.

9. Joss Whedon wrote almost the entire screenplay for the film Speed (1994) and was given no writing credit

10. Paul McCartney of Beatles once asked Isaac Asimov to write a screenplay. Isaac wrote a treatment but McCartney didn"t like it so it wasn"t used.

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The man who wrote the screenplay for "Batman and Robin" won an academy award four years later for writing "A Beautiful Mind"

In film school Paul Thomas Anderson was assigned to write a scene that shows a character trait without dialogue- he handed in a scene from Hoffa from an unpublished screenplay, and got a C+. - source

Quentin Tarantino wrote the screenplay for Inglorious Basterds between writing the screenplays for Jackie Brown and Kill Bill.

In 1970, Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay for Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and in a review for the Chicago Tribune, Gene Siskel gave it 0/4 stars, writing that "Boredom aplenty is provided by a screenplay which for some reason has been turned over to a screenwriting neophyte."

Beloved Children Author Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the fifth spy film in the James Bond series "You Only Live Twice" while simultaneously writing the screenplay for "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" - source

Jack Black vowed to never write a screenplay again after "Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny" flopped at the box office.

George Lucas, despite writing the screenplays for every Star Wars film except Empire Strikes Back, only actually directed A New Hope and the prequels.

In 1974 Isaac Asimov was approached by Paul McCartney to write the screenplay for a sci-fi movie musical about a rock band whose members discover they are being impersonated by aliens. Asimov's brief story outline was rejected by McCartney and now exists only in the Boston University archives.

Roal Dahl did more than write children's books. He wrote a few screenplays as well. Most notably for James Bond "You Only Live Twice". In addition, TIalsoL that Ian Fleming wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Oliver Stone was a cocaine addict, moved to France to write a screenplay that was going to be his "Revenge on Cocaine." Turned out to be "Scarface."

Screenwriting "guru" Syd Field, whose 1979 book SCREENPLAY defined the 3-Act structure as a writing paradigm never had a single movie script produced.