Because of work, I'm running behind. I just finished reading and watching Gladiator. However, I am enjoying this. I think I'm going to add a script a week into my regular reading schedule from now on.

Great, Nick. If you've tracked any of the comment threads for Gladiator or Bridesmaids, you have seen how many great insights have emerged there. Puts into print the value of readings scripts. Join in when you can!

I'm going to read Bridesmaids and Good Will Hunting as a double feature in the next two days.

I have a busy week ahead of me so I will probably not be able to join the discussion. I'll have to see how my week progresses. Have fun!

Anyone have any VERY early versions of GOOD WILL HUNTING? Ben & Matt went to Rob Reiner with an early version of this script -- Once Will was found out to be a genius, the FBI was pursuing him, trying to convince him to become an agent. Sounds to me, more like a thriller. Reiner told them to drop that angle. I'm curious if anyone has seen the script with the FBI angle? I want to read it!

Per Wikipedia: "Ben Affleck and Matt Damon originally wrote the screenplay as a thriller: Young man in the rough-and-tumble streets of South Boston who possesses a superior intelligence is targeted by the FBI to become a G-Man. Castle Rock Entertainment president Rob Reiner later urged them to drop the thriller aspect of the story and to focus the relationship between Will Hunting (Damon) and his psychologist (Williams). At Reiner's request, noted screenwriter William Goldman read the script and further suggested that the film's climax ought to be Will's decision to follow his girlfriend Skylar to California. Goldman has consistently denied the persistent rumor that he wrote Good Will Hunting or acted as a script doctor.[1] In his book, Which Lie Did I Tell?, Goldman writes that after reading the script and spending a day with the writers, his only contribution was agreeing with comments that Rob Reiner had already made. He writes, "I think the reason the world was so anxious to believe Matt Damon and Ben Affleck didn't write their script was simple jealousy. They were young and cute and famous; kill the fuckers."[2]"