Being There and the Evolution of a Screenplay provides an
insightful look at the drafting of one of Hollywood history’s
greatest scripts. Being There (1979) is generally considered the
final film in Hal Ashby’s triumphant 1970s career, which included
the likes of Harold and Maude (1971) and Shampoo (1975). The film
also showcases Peter Sellers’s last great performance. In 2005,
the Writers Guild of America included Being There on its list of
101 Best Scripts. Being There and the Evolution of a Screenplay
features three versions of the script: an early draft by Jerzy
Kosinski, based on his 1970 novel; a second by long-time Ashby
collaborator and Oscar-winner Robert C. Jones, which makes
substantial changes to Kosinki’s; and a final draft written by
Jones with Ashby’s assistance, which makes further structural and
narrative changes. Additionally, the book features facsimile pages
from one of Kosinski's copy of the scripts that include handwritten
notes, providing readers with valuable insight into the redrafting
process. For each version, Ashby scholar Aaron Hunter adds
perceptive analysis of the script’s development, the
relationships of the writers who worked on it, and key studio and
production details. This is both a presentation of the script of
Being There, and a record of the process of crafting that script
– a text that will be of interest to film fans and scholars as
well as writers and teachers of screenwriting. Evolution of a
Screenplay is the first book of its kind to so amply demonstrate
the creative development of a Hollywood script.
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