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Screenwritrer

posted 19 years ago by Quicksand
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... if you can call it that.

I was poking around the IMDB tonight, and even though the site credits the writer as "Chris Soth," I can SWEAR I remember a credit for Chris NOTH when the movie came out, having filed it away in my brain as Bad Screenwriters To Avoid... then hearing the name again years later (related or not) as Big on "Sex and the City."

I tried sending in a correction to the IMDB, but they claim the credits are from the WGA and are thus locked. Can anyone back me up on this? The credit on the box at the video store is Chris Noth, isn't it?

And what are the odds anyone is even reading this?

[–] olioz 19 years ago

I believe the odds are very small :) I saw this movie on tv and I am very sorry to say that the writer actually is Chris Soth... by the way the movie was awful, so avoid bad screenwriters like Chris Soth and bad movies like the firestorm.

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[–] chrissoth 16 years ago

Chris Soth here again -- reiterating my offer for you to read the original screenplay! Two years or so after posting this, I just got my first request! You can reach me here:

[email protected]

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[–] chris-2809 18 years ago

No, the original screenwriter is named Chris Soth. That's me. The script was changed a great deal by five people, the last of them Graham Yost. I will happily forward the original script to anyone who is avoiding my work, so they can decide for themselves who's most responsible for their disppointment in the finished film. I'm not saying whether the script is bad or good, or whether the finished film is, but I will say that it was originally written to be shot for about 200 million dollars, set in Yellowstone with a buffalo stampede and a helicopter exploding in the erupting mouth of Old Faithful, but was altered to be shot in Vancouver for 12 million. I can be contacted here:

[email protected]

[–] moviecollector 17 years ago

"Hey smokejumper, you still alive? Hey Jesse?"

This movie is good old cheesy fun. :)

[–] aa56 14 years ago

They bought this for $750 k, as you claim on your Website, and then paid five people to rewrite it?

[–] negativeions101 12 years ago

You're a liar and a loser, Chris. You couldn't write your way out of a pile of *beep* First of all, truly talented filmmakers aren't hosting seminars on film making, they're making good movies.
Second, your offer is useless. You could have edited the script later or changed the name of the writer, who knows. Sending the "original script" doesn't prove anything for reasons that include: According to the IMDB trivia Yost requested his name be taken off the credits because the script was so far from HIS original material. So who's right? And it was a smart move because being associated with this film is embarrassing.

200 million!? lol what a joke. Ya, I'm sure that's what it was originally supposed to be. How much better could the original script have been anyways? Look, people this is what these people do. They lie. In all walks of life. You want to protect your ego, your career. Just make up a story. Hey, it wasn't my fault. Same old. This is just a warning to those who want to take his class. Do your own research and write from the heart.