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THIS IS THE TITLE PAGE AND THE FIRST PAGE OF THE ORIGINAL DISNEY SCREENPLAY. (ALTHOUGH HE TOOK FROM LATER DRAFTS MAINLY, HERE ON PAGE ONE SORKIN TOOK THE LINE “HOW MANY ‘L’S IN ‘PARALLEL’ AND USED IT AS ‘HOW MANY K’S IN ‘KALEIDOSCOPE’ IN HIS 1994 DRAFT)
FROM DISNEY THE SCRIPT WENT TO ABC FILMS, WHERE WILLIAM RICHERT WROTE A NEW DRAFT FOR BARBARA MALTBY, AND THEN WHEN ABC FILMS FOLDED, PRODUCER MALTBY TOOK THE SCRIPT TO WILDWOOD, ROBERT REDFORD’S COMPANY. THAT WAS 1984 -1986.
AT WILDWOOD-UNIVERSAL, MR. REDFORD WAS TO STAR, AND WILLIAM RICHERT WAS UNDER CONTRACT TO DIRECT AND WRITE.
AFTER THE DRAFT FOR WILDWOOD UNIVERSAL, MR. RICHERT WAS BROUGHT BACK AGAIN AND IN 1991-2 HE DID A DRAFT FOR REDFORD WITH FRED SCHEPSI NOW DIRECTING.
THIS DRAFT ‘THE EXECUTIVE WING’ WAS NEVER GIVEN BY REDFORD TO THE WGA. MORE ON THIS BELOW.
