{"id":708,"date":"2008-07-03T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T15:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=708"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:50:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:50:36","slug":"what-happened-to-hancock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/03\/what-happened-to-hancock\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened To HANCOCK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I said when I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/Reviews\/Hancock.htm\">reviewed<\/a> it earlier this week, the blame for what a sloppy train wreck of a movie that is <strong>Hancock<\/strong> is can be laid at the feet of the numerous rewrites the screenplay went through from its initial inception to finally hitting multiplex screens.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can take a look at what writer Vy Vincent Ngo initially envisioned for this film. Jeff Wells over at Hollywood-Elsewhere\u00a0has posted a copy of Ng&#8217;s original, undated draft entitled <strong>Tonight, He Comes<\/strong>. How different is it? I haven&#8217;t had a chance to peruse the entire screenplay, but a cursory examination does reveal that the original is indeed darker than what eventually shows up on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>With Akiva Goldsman&#8217;s name on the film&#8217;s credits, it is easy to blame him for where the film falls apart. After all, this is the same writer who worked on <strong>Lost In Space<\/strong>, <strong>Batman Forever<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Batman\u00a0&amp; Robin<\/strong>, <strong>I, Robot<\/strong> and Smith&#8217;s last film <strong>I Am Legend<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a litany of titles that cause one to think that maybe his Academy Award for writing <strong>A Beautiful Mind <\/strong>may have been a fluke. (Hint- It was.) I would still like to see some other drafts the project went through to see if it was a gradual slide downhill towards a crappy film or just a big catastrophic failure once Goldman stepped up to the typewriter.<\/p>\n<p>You might want to hurry in checking out the script, though. Last month, Frank Darabont&#8217;s draft for what became <strong>Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull<\/strong> showed up on line, but was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/12\/indiana-jones-and-the-adventure-of-the-earlier-draft-script\/\" target=\"_self\">quickly yanked<\/a>\u00a0under the threat of Paramount&#8217;s legal attack dogs. Will Sony do the same?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">As I said when I reviewed it earlier this week, the blame for what a sloppy train wreck of a movie that is Hancock is can be laid at the feet of the numerous rewrites <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/03\/what-happened-to-hancock\/\" title=\"What Happened To HANCOCK?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[29,85,91,7856],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-academy-awards","8":"tag-current-movies","9":"tag-scripts","10":"tag-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}