Carrie Fisher – Hollywood Blockbuster-Savior: The unknown side of … movie starts

of Björn Becher ▪ Wednesday, 28. December 2016 – 5 minutes Ago

Carrie Fisher to the General Public was, especially as the actress from the “Star Wars”movies. But behind the Scenes you worked on some great films from the 90s – as a script-doctor.

We are Carrie Fisher always as Princess Leia from the “Star Wars”movies remember. If you ask a lot of moviegoers to the other roles of the actress, you come only once to a Standstill – until one of their magnificent performances in films like “Blues Brothers” or “when Harry met Sally” come to mind. Nevertheless, clad Carrie Fisher in her career, less roles than most of their over a similar period, active fellow actors. But that has a reason for that: Fisher is not only an actress, but, above all, a writer. She wrote books, was, however, especially for a long time as the most sought-after script doctor in Hollywood.

What is a script doctor?

script-doctors are the unsung heroes of Hollywood, as an important part of their work is that no one finds out. They will be recruited, if the script needs to be revised, the actual author has no time or you don’t trust him. Some are specialized in a good Action Script to spice up the dialogues, others are, however, to write a really good action scene in the Film.

Since you need to undertake in 99% of cases, to keep their involvement secret, the script-doctors to the best-paid creative workers in Hollywood. Currently X apply in the “-Men” and “Star Wars”producer Simon Kinberg, “Toy Story 3″writer Michael Arndt, and the “LEGO Movie”filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller as Hollywood’s highest-paid script doctors. According to a study of the Hollywood Reporter, was published in September 2016, you will receive between 350,000 and 400,000 dollars per week (!) for Revisions to screenplays. Well-known script authors were, among other things, to the beginnings of their careers are Quentin Tarantino (for “The Rock” and “Crimson Tide”), Joss Whedon (“Speed”, “X-Men”) and Aaron Sorkin (“Schindler’s list” and also “The Rock”).

What movies has revised Carrie Fisher?

Carrie Fisher, described by himself as “script Nurse”, especially in the beginning of the 90s successful in business. It was regarded even as the most sought-after script doctor in the industry. With absolute security clauses on the basis of Confidentiality does not say, what movies has she created Hand. It is very likely that your work on Steven Spielberg’s “Hook” was the order that made them the most sought-after restyling misfit of screenplays in Hollywood. Fisher wrote for the Film of almost all dialogue lines of Julia Roberts' character is tink (Tinkerbell). Whoopi Goldberg revealed that Fisher “Sister Act” has been revised and, in addition, Disney was able to assert that the Film is made, how it wanted Goldberg. For action movies you went to see her. Shane Black, for a long time one of the best script doctors in Hollywood, revealed that she wore in “Last Action Hero” and “Lethal Weapon 3″ Hand.

when Carrie Fisher as a script-doctor was active, is not known. While you could save the early to mid 90s before jobs, joined them later shorter. In the Actioner “Mr. And Mrs. Smith” from 2005, you should have been. Self-you only confirmed in 2008 that they have abandoned this work some years before, and for the Junior course. Times have changed too much, she told the Newsweek for a background article: “It was a long, very lucrative Episode in my life. [...] Now has changed everything," she practiced criticism of the Hollywood System, because now you had to submit his ideas for the Revision, in order to get the Job in the first place. So the Studios can collect all the ideas of all the authors, and at the end of anyone do that. “This is free labor and that’s what I call a waste of time.”

revised Carrie Fisher “Star Wars”?

When Carrie Fisher is so good and in demand was the author, then it is obvious that she has also worked on the “Star Wars”movies. This has you will, but less often than common. George Lucas is to you) in the case of the Prequels (! asked, once again Revisions. The Phoenix New Times told you in 2008 that George Lucas had asked for, a (!) the Prequels a little Polish. A few days before her death, circulated also via Twitter, a page of the Script out of “The Empire strikes back”, which is full of hand-written notes. This page is now being spread by many in the media as evidence that Fisher had also revised the screenplays of the Original trilogy solid. However, the circulating page comes from the book “The Making Of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back”. Th ere is no indication that the remarks of Fisher. Rather, they should come from Director Irvin Kershner.

In the already mentioned Interview with the Phoenix New Times Fisher reiterated, meanwhile, is a legendary statement that you and Harrison Ford said when making the first “Star Wars”Film to George Lucas regarding his dialogue: “You can tap that Shit, but you can’t pronounce it.” The Revisions left them here, but seems to still others. In the same Interview, she explained, namely, that they have only revised for “The return of the Jedi” “a little bit” of your dialogues.