Jan/ThirdSpace

[OmahaStar]

Jan, as the reigning Script Queen, and She Who Possesses the Script for ThirdSpace ....

We all know that there were additional scenes that got cut prior to filming ... As the story goes, the director said it would run long and cut out several pages, only to find out the day before filming ended that he was now short, and JMS wrote the Elevator Scene ...

In the scripts you have, do you know *what* was cut out?

[Jan]

Re: Jan/ThirdSpace

Originally posted by OmahaStar
Jan, as the reigning Script Queen, and She Who Possesses the Script for ThirdSpace ....

We all know that there were additional scenes that got cut prior to filming ... As the story goes, the director said it would run long and cut out several pages, only to find out the day before filming ended that he was now short, and JMS wrote the Elevator Scene ...

In the scripts you have, do you know *what* was cut out?

Hmmm...I knew that JMS wrote the Elevator Scene because the script ran short but I'd never heard that pages had been deleted. I mean, why not just put the deleted pages back in? Still, when I get home this afternoon, I'll check to see what revisions I have of the script and get back to you.

She Who Possesses Almost All Of The Scripts,
Jan
--who WILL find those last two sometime before TMoS comes out!!!!!

[Jan]

Okay, I'm home now and pulled out the Thirdspace script. What I have is an unnamed draft dated 4/3/97 and then the shooting script which encompasses the Final Draft (4/21/97), Blue Revisions (5/13/97) and Pink Revisions (6/4/97).

I can't guarantee it without reading it word for word, but the only significant change that I found is the Pink Revisions. There are only 5 pink pages and they're all the elevator scene, Pages 32, 32A, 32B, 32C and 32D. The rest are extremely minor changes such as the order of some scenes or teensy changes in dialog where the characters say things in a slightly different order. The only other 'letter pages' seem to have occurred when the scene numbers were added which changed the spacing slightly sending a line or two onto another page.

When JMS says he doesn't do much revising, he means it! In one case, I found a revised page and the *only* difference I found was one word. Even then it wasn't dialog, it was a scene description.

Omaha, if you can give me any idea what cuts you think there might be, I'll look again.

Hope this helps (and makes some sense),
Jan

[OmahaStar]

I really don't know what the revisions are ... It was right after the movie came out, which was over 5 years ago ... There was an interview or article on it in some magazine, and JMS talked about the elevator scene being last-minute and blah blah ... I don't know anything else about it, that's why I was asking you.

It really sucks to know that I don't indeed know it all.

[Jan]

Originally posted by OmahaStar
I really don't know what the revisions are ... It was right after the movie came out, which was over 5 years ago ... There was an interview or article on it in some magazine, and JMS talked about the elevator scene being last-minute and blah blah ... I don't know anything else about it, that's why I was asking you.

It really sucks to know that I don't indeed know it all.

Well, you're absolutely right about the added scene. I think JMS even refers to it in the commentary for Thirdspace. The only thing I don't see is anything that might have been deleted.

Trouble is, since added pages just add a letter to the page number, both drafts ended up looking like the same number of pages.

Jan
who enjoyed playing with the script collection, thanks.

[Bonehead]

All hail, Great Scripted One