FILM SCRIPT MICHAEL TOLKIEN ~ ALTMAN’S The Player [1992]

Screenplay

Screenplay by Michael Tolkien
20 April 1989
pdf facsimile
141 pages

NB Just one look the beginning of this and you see this is not how it is shot in the film, with it’s famous 8 minute continuous shot. But there doesn’t appear to be a shooting script available anywhere online. Fun just the same to see the difference and try to work out why he thought this was better.

Extras

Untold Stories of Robert Altman’s The Player or Who the Hell is Thereza Ellis?

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American Exuberance: The Films of Robert Altman

The Player by Roger Ebert 1992

Robert Altman’s ‘The Player’: What Lessons Hollywood Has Learned From The Showbiz Satire
Gary Susman, 9 April 2012

GoogleBook Robert Altman by Mitchell Zuckoff

Enjoy the many photographers and as much of the text as possible. Nothing is free. if it is free then there’s a catch somewhere. In this case it’s trying to guess what’s in that missing page.

GoogleBook: Altman on Altman by David Thompson

Section on The Player: he considered it a bad script. Talks of Tolkien’s novel [1988] from which he adapted the screenplay, not having an ending.