[dir. MANN, Michael] MANN, Michael The Keep
Los Angeles: Kock-Kirkwood/Mann Productions, 1982
107 mimeographed pp. on variegated paper stock, bound in black stiff paper wrappers secured with two split pins to left edge. Title window to front wrapper. Inked production number ’10’ to top right corner of title page. A little edge wear to oversize wrappers, but a very well-preserved copy.
Second draft screenplay (so stated to title page) of Michael Mann’s second film The Keep (1983), starring Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne and Ian McKellen.
The Keep was bedevilled with problems in post-production. Mann’s preferred version was 210 minutes long, but Paramount insisted the film should be cut to two hours. This version performed badly in pre-release screenings, and so Paramount had the film cut still further, this time to 96 minutes.
Unsurprisingly then, the film as released is a disappointment, incoherent and choppily edited, and Mann’s original version has never been seen. This complete screenplay, in early draft, offers a tantalising glimpse of the film The Keep might have been.
[dir. MANN, Michael] MANN, Michael The Keep
Los Angeles: Kock-Kirkwood/Mann Productions, 1982
107 mimeographed pp. on variegated paper stock, bound in black stiff paper wrappers secured with two split pins to left edge. Title window to front wrapper. Inked production number ’10’ to top right corner of title page. A little edge wear to oversize wrappers, but a very well-preserved copy.
Second draft screenplay (so stated to title page) of Michael Mann’s second film The Keep (1983), starring Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne and Ian McKellen.
The Keep was bedevilled with problems in post-production. Mann’s preferred version was 210 minutes long, but Paramount insisted the film should be cut to two hours. This version performed badly in pre-release screenings, and so Paramount had the film cut still further, this time to 96 minutes.
Unsurprisingly then, the film as released is a disappointment, incoherent and choppily edited, and Mann’s original version has never been seen. This complete screenplay, in early draft, offers a tantalising glimpse of the film The Keep might have been.
