[dir. Oz, Frank] ASHMAN, Howard and MENKIN, Alan
Little Shop Of Horrors
Los Angeles: Geffen Film Company, 1985
123 xerographed pp. bound in light blue stiff paper wrappers, secured with three split pins to left edge. Address and logo of the Geffen Film Company to front wrapper. Inked number ’12’ to title page, yellow highlighting and red markings to text throughout, and with occasional annotations by hand. A little wear and creasing to front wrapper, but a very well preserved copy.
REVISED DRAFT SCREENPLAY FOR LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986), DATED 14 FEBRUARY 1985 TO TITLE PAGE, EXTENSIVELY HIGHLIGHTED THROUGHOUT. The film of the musical of the film and with the original ending, later discarded.
First there was The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Roger Corman’s camp horror-comedy about a plant which feeds on human blood. Shot in two days and featuring a young Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient, it was the basis for The Little Shop of Horrors, the 1982 off-Broadway musical which ran for five years. The film was filmed by Frank Oz in 1985, with a cast including Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin, Bill Murray and John Candy. This copy of the screenplay appears to have been used by the props department: most of the underlining and highlighting in the text references objects mentioned in the dialogue and stage of the scene directions. Objects which would be needed on set for the shooting.
This copy of the ‘Revised Draft’ screenplay has the film’s original ending, in which the leading characters are killed by the man- eating plant. This is also the ending of the stage show, but it played so disastrously in preview screenings that it was replaced ahead of the film’s release by an altogether happier finale.
A heavily annotated production screenplay of a cult classic.
[dir. Oz, Frank] ASHMAN, Howard and MENKIN, Alan
Little Shop Of Horrors
Los Angeles: Geffen Film Company, 1985
123 xerographed pp. bound in light blue stiff paper wrappers, secured with three split pins to left edge. Address and logo of the Geffen Film Company to front wrapper. Inked number ’12’ to title page, yellow highlighting and red markings to text throughout, and with occasional annotations by hand. A little wear and creasing to front wrapper, but a very well preserved copy.
REVISED DRAFT SCREENPLAY FOR LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986), DATED 14 FEBRUARY 1985 TO TITLE PAGE, EXTENSIVELY HIGHLIGHTED THROUGHOUT. The film of the musical of the film and with the original ending, later discarded.
First there was The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Roger Corman’s camp horror-comedy about a plant which feeds on human blood. Shot in two days and featuring a young Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient, it was the basis for The Little Shop of Horrors, the 1982 off-Broadway musical which ran for five years. The film was filmed by Frank Oz in 1985, with a cast including Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin, Bill Murray and John Candy. This copy of the screenplay appears to have been used by the props department: most of the underlining and highlighting in the text references objects mentioned in the dialogue and stage of the scene directions. Objects which would be needed on set for the shooting.
This copy of the ‘Revised Draft’ screenplay has the film’s original ending, in which the leading characters are killed by the man- eating plant. This is also the ending of the stage show, but it played so disastrously in preview screenings that it was replaced ahead of the film’s release by an altogether happier finale.
A heavily annotated production screenplay of a cult classic.
