3. M. Night Shyamalan Claims Credit For She’s All That
Do you remember the 1999 movie She’s All That? The movie tells the story of a high school jock who makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into a prom queen. Well, it’s not a disaster if you don’t remember it because it was just another average-rated comedy-slash-romance movie.
But then, completely out of the blue, the box-office breaking Indian-American director M. Night Shyamalan comes out and makes an astonishing announcement that he wrote the movie. The reason his name was never credited was because he was hired as a ghostwriter.
The legitimate writer of the script, R. Lee Fleming, took the news calmly and replied that Shyamalan’s claims were absurd and he might have written the script, but only in his mind. As a result of this clash of interests, some investigation was done, which eventually revealed that both men were actually right. Fleming’s script was bought by the studio, but Shyamalan was hired at a later stage to do the rewrite, so it was his version which made it to the screen.
As Shakespeare would have put it, all’s well that ends well.
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