Welcome to MCN's new weekly series, The 48 Hrs. Journals, screenwriter Larry Gross's contemporaneous diary from the set of the classic that launched the buddy/cop craze of the 80s. I expect you will find it interesting, frustrating, and thought-provoking. A glimpse...
"I don't know what you've heard...I've been working this fella and while I like em I know it's not gonna work out...."
That's Walter referring to my predecessor on the project Steve De Souza.
"I been reading a few things...the script needs some things you do well I always think do less well. I gotta bunch of people standing my office wanting know whether to make the police cars red or blue...It's brushwork on the script that's needed...basically this things a pounder... a shaggy dog story. Defiant Ones plus chuckles...I'll be honest with ya...with four weeks till we shoot you probably won't get screenwriting credit...basically all you got time for is to do what I tell ya...are ya interested?"
The rest...
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