Fatal Attraction Script Pdf
The psycho-thriller “Fatal Attraction,” the highest grossing movie of 1987, was a must-see film that turned a successful New York lawyer’s weekend affair with a sexy single publishing exec into a terrifying tale of obsession. Her demonic pursuit of him, and his family, ended with a shocking plot twist that left viewers stunned. Twenty-five years later, the hit film has been resurrected in a neon-lit theatrical production that premiered recently in London’s West End.
Both the original screenplay and new play are the work of British screenwriter James Dearden. Despite an Oscar nomination for Fatal Attraction, he had long been dissatisfied with the Hollywood ending that Paramount Pictures’ producers insisted on. So, for his first live stage effort, Dearden, now 64, rewrote the plot, making the characters more complicated, the message more ambiguous, and the finale more in line with his original vision.
Fatal Attraction Script Pdf Download
That stellar practitioner of Broadway comedy at its best has here turned his hand, quite successfully we believe, to another genre the mystery thriller.
Fatal Attraction Cast
The film’s striking commercial success—reviews were mixed—was largely attributed to the insistence on script changes by famed producers Stanley Jaffe and Sherry Lansing, based on test screening reactions. The obsessive Alex Forrest (played by the Glenn Close as a provocative frizzy-haired blonde) became an archetypical psycho—made far more dangerous and frightening. And the object of her desire, lawyer and family man Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas, then 43), became more sympathetic—less a philanderer and more the victim of a mad vixen. The new ending was an edge-of-the-seat shocker.