Preston Sturges and the first screenwriting royal.“The Bucket List” operates on the hope that two beloved stars rubbing their signature screen personas together can spark warm, fuzzy box office magic.Time Machine - Doritos Super Bowl Winner 2014.
#The bucket list script movie
I had written the movie with Morgan Freeman's voice in my head. So they sent the script to his agents at CAA, and three days later he calls up: "Hello? I've read thirteen pages of this thing, and if it's okay with you, this would be my next movie." He and I worked on the script for probably a total of six months, off and on. Two of them said, "We don't think anyone's going to buy it, but we think it's really good, so we'd like to give it to studios." All the studios said no, but one of the producers said, "I really think if you get this in the right hands, this could get done." They said, "Given any director in the world who you'd want to shoot this, who would it be?" I was like, " Rob Reiner's made some pretty good movies." We sent it to fifty producers, and forty-eight said no. Normally your agents will send a screenplay to one producer with a deal at each studio. I gave it to my agents and they said, "This is great, but nobody's going to buy this." I wrote it very quickly, just in a few weeks. They find that, and that's what the movie is about. Ultimately the story is these two guys have their own list of things that they wanna do with the short time they have left, but the one thing that's not on either of their lists that they're both missing is a true friend.