For context, the 1997 film’s script began as a 40 page assignment Matt submitted his script to a class at Harvard University. After realizing the story had serious potential, Matt enlisted the help of his best friend, Ben, and the pair finished the script in live together in Los Angeles.
With the script finished, Matt and Ben’s next task was to find the right people to direct it – provided they could also play the roles of Will and Chuckie.
As the story continuesProduction company Castle Rock Entertainment had originally purchased the rights to the script. However, executives had reservations about certain aspects of the story and eventually asked Ben and Matt to rework the script, which brings us to the recently resurfaced information.
July 9, a user X shared a screenshot of a Screen Rant Article 2019 remembering that Matt and Ben wrote fake sex scenes into the script while they were selling it to Hollywood.
The X post has over 43,000 likes, and while it may seem hard to believe that Matt and Ben intentionally incorporated fake scenes into the script while they were desperate to make it happen, the duo did it for a very good reason. Allow me to explain.
After Castle Rock requested a rewrite, Matt and Ben set to work to change the story. However, when the duo turned in the revised scripts, they began to suspect that the company executives weren’t even reading them properly.
“We were so frustrated that Castle Rock wasn’t reading the script, so we thought we had to develop this test,” Ben recalled in an interview with Boston Magazine in 2013“We started writing for the screen, like this: ‘Sean talks to Will and clears his conscience.’ And then: ‘Will takes a moment, then gives Sean an emotional look, leans over and starts sucking him.'”
According to the duo, the sexual moments between the characters made so little sense in the story that it helped them quickly determine which executives were actually reading the script based on whether or not they commented on the random sex scenes.
Eventually, Harvey Weinstein received the script, and he quickly noticed that the sex scenes seemed out of placeThis confirmed to Matt and Ben that he had indeed read the story correctly, and the rest is history.
They handed over the script…
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