1990s Cinema from Royal Books, Inc.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1995. Shooting Script for the 1995 film, here under the working title "Me and My Shadow". Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by members of the cast and crew, including director Andy Tennant, screenwriter Rick Parks, and actors Kirstie Alley, Steve Guttenberg, and Steve Bosco. From the… Read more

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1997. Draft script for the 1997 television film, which originally aired on CBS on November 24. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED by members of the cast and crew on the front wrapper, including Olympia Dukakis and Julie Hagerty. Laid in with the script is an inscribed borderless black-and-white photograph of actress… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1996. Draft script for the 1996 television film. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED on the title pages by playwright Jonathan Tolins and members of the cast and crew, including actors Garry Marshall, Brendan Fraser, and Jon Tenney (though not Faye Dunaway). Lacking the last few leaves, but complete as used by Maginnis. … Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1995. Revised Draft script for the 1996 film. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED on the first twelve title pages by members of the cast and crew, including director Steve Rash and actress Whoopi Goldberg. From the collection of costume designer Molly Maginnis. A New York limousine driver is named "honorary… Read more

Santa Monica: Home Box Office [HBO], 1999. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the HBO television movie "The Jack Bull." Loosely based on the 1810 novella "Michael Kolhaas" by Heinrich von Kleist. A tale of revenge, following a rancher who refuses to sell his ranch to a greedy land baron. The landowner slowly eats away at Cusack's livelihood,… Read more

1990. Draft script for the 1990 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese, with the introductory leaf for each of the film's dream sequences in a separate, bright color. A vibrant anthology based entirely on director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams, addressing themes of childhood, spirituality, art, war, and disaster. Shot on location in Nagano, Shizuoka, Hokkaido,… Read more

N.p.: Percy Main Productions, 1995. Revised Final Draft script for the 1996 film. Three copied annotations on two pages, consisting of one dialogue change and two revision date changes. Based on the 1962 book "The Last Voyage of the Albatross" by Charles Gieg Jr. and Felix Sutton about the sinking of the brigantine Albatross on May 2, 1961.… Read more

Culver City, CA: TriStar, 1996. Shooting Script for the 1997 film. SIGNED on the title page by director-screenwriter James L. Brooks. Housed in a quarter leather clamshell slipcase, red cloth with blue leather spine. A misanthropic novelist uses sarcasm and animosity to mask his extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder, but finds his highly regimented world begins to unravel… Read more

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1996. Sixth Revised Draft script for the 1996 science fiction film. Based on characters created for the cult trading card series originally released in 1962, and an open homage to campy 1950s science fiction movies. Earth is invaded by powerful, unstoppable Martians with high-tech weapons and a bloody sense of humor. Set… Read more

Berlin: Robert Van Ackeren Filmproduktion / Dieter Geissler Filmproduktion, 1984. Draft script for the 1992 film. A very early version of the script, issued almost a decade before the film's release, with Robert van Ackeren as the intended director at the time. With a few holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout, mostly to the first twenty pages of text.… Read more

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1992. Third draft script for the 1993 British film, likely having belonged to actor Peter Halliday. Laid in are six Call Sheets, five of which contain the name of Peter Halliday have the actor's name highlighted, one of which has his name written (incorrectly as "Peter Haliday") on the verso in holograph ink, one… Read more

New York: Westerly Disco, 1997. First Draft script for the 1998 film, the third in director Whit Stillman's trilogy involving upper-crust Upper East Side intellectuals and their woes in the 1970s and 1980s. Based largely on Stillman's experiences in various Manhattan nightclubs in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Two young publishing house assistants living in New York… Read more

Santa Monica, CA: HBO, 1992. Shooting script for the 1992 television film, with lines and phrases highlighted in yellow throughout. Included with the script are three separate sets of color revision pages (blue, pink, and yellow), dated between 2/7/92 and 2/11/92. Based on the true story of Joseph McCarthy's chief council Roy Cohn, who acted as one of… Read more

Los Angeles: Turbulence Productions, 1996. Revised Fourth Draft script for the 1997 film. After both pilots and the navigator are killed mid-flight by two prisoners on board, a brave flight attendant must direct the plane to safety. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated May 6, 1996, noted as Revised Fourth Draft, with credits for screenwriter Jonathan… Read more

Santa Monica, CA: Trimark Pictures, 1999. Draft script for the 1999 film. With a holograph ink notation to the front wrapper, and a single holograph ink notation to the verso of page 67. The sequel to the 1997 film. A group of people who have recently completed a therapy program designed to conquer fear of flying celebrate… Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. Shooting script for the 1990 film. With rainbow revision pages throughout. Sequel to the 1988 action thriller, based on the unrelated 1987 novel "58 Minutes" by Walter Wager. Two years after the Nakatomi Tower incident, hard-nosed cop John McClane returns to save Dulles International Airport from grenade-wielding ex-military mercenaries. Set in… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1996. Shooting Draft script for the 1997 neo-noir film. With a single holograph ink annotation on the front wrapper, likely made by the production designer or property master, regarding a "suicide note" needed for a particular scene, and a notation of the scene number. A wealthy but isolated investment banker is given a gift by his… Read more

Culver City, CA: Yorktown Productions, 1990. Second draft script for the 1991 film in red leather presentation binding belonging to editor Lou Lombardo with his name in gilt on front board, title in gilt on front board and spine. With 26 8" x 10" film still and on the set photographs affixed to leaves throughout. 18 page Cast List… Read more

Los Angeles: The Movie Group, 1994. Second Draft script for the 1995 film, seen here under the working title "Best of the Best 3: Hard Right." The third film (out of four) in the "Best of the Best" series. A martial arts instructor joins forces with a small town schoolteacher to fight a white supremacist organization. Shot… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1996. Master Revised Script for the 1997 film. "#128" in holograph ink on top right of front wrapper. The art of the con propels a few of screenwriter and director David Mamet's classic neo-noir films, notably "House of Games" (1987), "The Spanish Prisoner" (1997), and "Heist" (2001). "The Spanish Prisoner " is Mamet's most labyrinthine… Read more