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Originally posted by: battlewars
did whedon rewrite speed? if he did then thats the only thing i like of his. by the way i only liked ep3 of the prequels. serenity was crap


*stares dumbfounded*

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Actually, I believe several people had a hand in rewriting Speed, including a certain princess from Alderaan.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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No, not really. Graham Yost came up with the story idea after watching a Kurosawa flick, as he says. He got the structure and the characters in place. Fox liked the script, and gave it to Whedon to doctor up. Whedon redid a large amount of the dialog and changed the Alan Ruck character from being an ass into a dorky tourist, and made Annie less comedic. The script then went to arbitration and Yost got the credit after some backroom politicking (according to Whedon) although Speed, at one point, in anticipation of how they THOUGHT the arbitration would go, had a poster crediting Joss Whedon alone with the screenplay. But the Writers Guild, upon learning that Whedon basically, when it came down to it, only did a dialog polish and a few character tweaks, decided the script was still mostly Yost's.

Carrie Fisher did nothing on Speed.
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