Pretty Woman Movie Secrets We Never Would Have Guessed

That’s Not Really What Happened

That’s not exactly what happened, though. J.F. Lawton wrote the original dark script that was supposed to be called 3,000. Lawton was then a struggling screenwriter in the late 80s. He drafted a dark drama that took inspiration from movies like Wall Street and The Last Detail. As Lawton said, he was just trying to do something new to get a good gig.

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“I was a screenwriter who was trying to get a job, I was unemployed and I was working in post-production and I was trying to sell scripts, and I had been writing all of these ninja scripts and comedies, and I just couldn’t get any attention. I suddenly said, ‘Well, maybe I need to do something more serious and dramatic,’ and I had written a script called Red Sneakers which was about a one-legged lesbian standup comic which was an alcoholic, and all of a sudden, I got a lot of attention. People were really interested! People were talking to me.”

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