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Is it accurate to refer to script doctors as "rescu[ing] failing film projects." Towne was a script doctor on The Godfather, and Sorkin was a script doctor on Shindler's List. Were these films really "failing?" Watchsmart 03:41, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Changed. Watchsmart 06:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, With no malice or ill will, I have relocated this list here so that it can be improved. THere are several problems with it. First it is a list, and encyclopedias should generally have prose instead of lists. Second, the list not put into a useful order (e.g., chronological, by genre, etc). Thirdly, the list is completely unreferenced. If Wikipedia is to be a reliable reference source, we cannot have unreferenced lists like this. It is just too easy for jokers to add in false information. For example, I could have easily added in the false claim that John Malkovich was a script doctor for the filmPretty in Pink and it might stay in the article for YEARS, even though it is completely false. Nazamo (talk) 18:45, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Daniele Luttazzi? Who is? Sources? ................................................................ Notable script doctors

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• Judd Apatow: The Cable Guy, The Wedding Singer
• John August: Blue Streak, Jurassic Park III, Minority Report, The Rundown
• Roger Avary: True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Crying Freeman
• David Ayer: Taking Lives
• James Cameron: Point Break
• Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais: Never Say Never Again, The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II
• Frank Darabont: Minority Report, Saving Private Ryan
• Carrie Fisher: Hook (Julia Roberts' dialogue), Lethal Weapon 3 (Rene Russo's dialogue), Made In America, My Girl 2, The River Wild, Love Affair
• Scott Frank: Saving Private Ryan, Dawn Of The Dead
• William Goldman: A Fish Called Wanda, Twins, Chaplin, Last Action Hero, Malice, Fierce Creatures
• Akiva Goldsman: The Specialist, Charlie's Angels
• Ben Hecht: Monkey Business, Queen Christina, A Star Is Born, The Prisoner Of Zenda, Angels With Dirty Faces, Stagecoach, Gone With The Wind, Foreign Correspondent, Journey Into Fear, The Outlaw, Lifeboat, Gilda, Duel In The Sun, The Paradine Case, Rope, Strangers On A Train, The Thing from Another World, Hans Christian Andersen, Guys and Dolls, The Man With The Golden Arm, North to Alaska, Mutiny On The Bounty, Cleopatra, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, Casino Royale
• David Mamet: Ronin
• Tom Mankiewicz: Superman
• Steve Oedekerk: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• Billy Ray: Stuart Little
• Dean Riesner: High Plains Drifter, Das Boot, The Sting II, Blue Thunder, Starman
• David O. Russell: Stuart Little
• Derek Rydall for Wildforce Rangers, Diamonds, No Turning Back, Beethoven 1 1/2
• Shane Salerno: Breakdown, Alien vs. Predator, Ghost Rider
• John Sayles: The Fugitive, Apollo 13, Mimic
• Kevin Smith: Overnight Delivery, Coyote Ugly
• Aaron Sorkin: Enemy of the State, Bulworth, The Rock, Excess Baggage and Schindler's List
• Tom Stoppard: Sleepy Hollow, K-19: The Widowmaker, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
• Wesley Strick: Batman Returns, Face/Off, Mission: Impossible II
• Quentin Tarantino: Past Midnight, It's Pat, Crimson Tide (Star Trek, The Enemy Below, and Silver Surfer references), The Rock, Hostel
• James Toback: Disclosure, Crimson Tide
• Michael Tolkin: The Haunting, Dawn Of The Dead
• Robert Towne: The Godfather (the scene in the garden between Marlon Brando and Al Pacino), Tough Guys Don't Dance, Crimson Tide (the dinner scene discussing nuclear war)
• Norman Wexler: Lipstick, The Fan
• Joss Whedon: Speed, Waterworld, Twister, X-Men
• Daniele Luttazzi for Comedy Central and HBO
• Patton Oswalt has mentioned doing some script doctor work in his stand-up act, most notably Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Ive added additional defintion of script doctor, unrelated to the first definition, not sure how it could be done otherwise, I hope this is ok?2829 VC 13:55, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]