1990s Cinema from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: International Creative Management [ICM], 1996. Second Draft agency script for the 1998 film. Written by Vince Gilligan, who would go on to create the legendary television series "Breaking Bad." When Beatrice Lever (Catherine O'Hara) finds out her husband is having an affair she sends her military pilot sons, Angus (Jake Busey) and Dorian (Luke Wilson), in their… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1989. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film, here under the working title "Little Havana." Copied annotations on title page of title, screenwriter, and "revised." One copied annotation regarding character on page 11 of script. Nestor (Jimmy Smits), recently released after years of being a political prisoner, flees Cuba to rejoin his wife Isabel (Greta Scacchi)… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1990. Third Draft script for the 1990 British film, seen here under the alternate title "The Pope Must Die." An unqualified and irreverent priest is accidentally chosen as the new pope, and finds himself wildly unprepared for life as the pontiff. Set in Vatican City, shot on location in Yugoslavia and the UK.… Read more

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1996. Draft script for the 1996 film. Based on the 1978 musical stage production by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, which was in turn based on Rice and Webber's 1976 concept album, following the brief life of Argentinean first lady Eva Peron from her impoverished illegitimate beginnings to her later idolatry. The… Read more

Los Angeles: SP Films, Inc, 1990. Revised Fourth Draft script for the 1990 film, here under the working title "Screwface." Annotations on label on front wrapper of "Screwface" in holograph pencil, with "Marked for Death" above, in holograph ink. Retired DEA agent, John Hatcher (Steven Seagal), returns to his hometown of Lincoln Heights, Illinois, only to discover… Read more

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1991. Fifth Draft script for the 1992 film. With copied revision pages, but also with serrated hole edges, made for internal distribution. A human cartoonist finds himself inside a mysterious cartoon universe called Cool World, where his fountain pen is lethal and sex with cartoons, or "doodles," is strictly forbidden. Director Ralph Bakshi's return… Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1992. Draft script for the 1993 film, here under the working title "Danger Sign." Internally produced during production, with copied hole shadows, but also with holograph ink annotations to eight leaves regarding scenes at the police station. After agreeing to hide a valuable coin for a friend, a deaf woman becomes the target… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1989. Draft script for the 1990 television film, here under the working title "Fast Lane." A woman discovers that the man with whom she has just had a one-night stand is a hired assassin, and tries to stop him from completing his next hit. Set in New York. Self wrappers. Missing… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1994. Revised First Draft script for the 1995 film, here under the working title "Simon Says: Die Hard III." The third film in the Die Hard series, following "Die Hard" (1988) and "Die Hard 2" (1990), and preceding "Live Free or Die Hard" (2007) and "A Good Day to Die Hard" (2013). In this installment,… Read more

London: Gala Film Distributors, 1994. Vintage studio still photograph from the UK release of the 1994 film, under its UK title, "Love in the Strangest Way." A married businessman enjoys what he believes to be a one-night-stand, but realizes he's in over his head when the woman shows up for her new job as his son's new… Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1990. Second Draft script for the 1992 film. A recently widowed Jewish woman finds love in her autumn years with a charming Italian playboy, but faces criticism from her two unhappy daughters, who believe she is moving forward too quickly. Set in Queens, New York. Blue titled wrappers, dated MARCH 2,… Read more

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1991. Revised Draft script for the classic 1991 film comedy, with rainbow revisions. Two metalhead best friends who run a no-budget public cable television show find their lives turned around when a sleazy producer purchases the rights to their show for his prime time network. Based on a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch… Read more

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1991. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1991 film, five of which are compilation prints of multiple stills. Dr. Eve Simmons (Renee Soutendijk in her first US film) creates a nuclear armed android, EVE VIII (also played by Soutendijk), for the military, which looks and sounds just like its… Read more

Mumbai: National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC), 1990. Vintage reference photograph of Satyajit Ray on the set of the 1990 film. Provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome," and label of photographer Nemai Ghosh, on verso. Ghosh worked closely with Ray as his official still photographer for nearly twenty-five years. Based on the 1882 play… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1991. Fourth Draft script for the 1992 film. An international chase ensues in pursuit of the most valuable bottle of wine in history, bottled in the year of the Great Comet of 1811. Shot on location in France, Scotland, and England. Self front wrapper, integral with title page, dated February '91,… Read more

N.p.: Alliance Entertainment, 1991. Collection of three vintage studio still photographs from the 1991 film. An unorthodox insurance claims adjuster and his family are approached by a wealthy, voyeuristic couple who want to make a film in their house. Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan's fourth feature, a fetishistic and unsettling psychological journey. Shot on location in Toronto. … Read more

Santa Monica, CA: Steven Bochco Productions, 1995. Draft script for the ninth episode of season three of the 1993-2005 television series, which originally aired on January 9, 1996 on ABC. With a printed label affixed to the front wrapper reading "EDITORS / (2)," and holograph ink annotations throughout, most noting deletions. A Chinese-American teenage girl is found… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1994. Revised Draft script for the 1995 film, blue and pink revision pages throughout, and with a holograph ink annotation on a post-it note affixed to page 28 addressing editorial changes. A group of young graduates decide to stay on campus for the foreseeable future, fearing the uncertainty of the outside world. Noah Baumbach's directorial… Read more

Santa Monica, CA: Steven Bochco Productions, 1995. Draft script for the third episode of season three of the 1993-2005 television series, which originally aired on November 7, 1995 on ABC. With holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout, most noting deletions. A detective attempts to locate a suspect in a string of rapes across Manhattan, while another officer's family's… Read more

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1993. Draft script for the 1994 film. In order to track down a gang of hacker crooks known for skydiving onto the buildings they plan to rob, a disgraced cop turns to a skydiving expert to learn the tricks of the trade and infiltrate the criminal team. Shot on location in Florida, California,… Read more