Series III: Film and Television Projects

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{"value"=>"<p>Film and Television Projects covers Didion and Dunne's screenwriting work. The series holds screenplay and script drafts (often with interfiled notes), rewrites, and polishes; research materials; dailies and wrap party video recordings; correspondence; notes; plot outlines; and character breakdowns created and compiled by Didion and Dunne from the 1960s to 2012.</p> <p>Film projects constitute the bulk of the series, which includes both produced and unproduced projects. Didion and Dunne maintained files from various producers, screenwriters, and agencies who contacted the couple to determine their interest in, and sometimes advice about, a project. Also present are items related to an unproduced television show <span class=\"title\">The City</span>.</p> <p>The subseries also details Didion and Dunne's working relationship with the producer Scott Rudin and director Jon Avnet. This is evident through meeting notes, correspondence, plot outlines, and screenplay drafts from <span class=\"title\">Up Close & Personal</span>, <span class=\"title\">Before You Go</span> (unproduced), Untitled Tom Dooley/Dr. America Project (unproduced) and <span class=\"title\">Red Corner</span> (1997).</p> <p>Some film projects in this series are interconnected with titles from Didion and Dunne's Books and Journalism subseries. Dunne's novel <span class=\"title\">Playland</span> (1994) was based on Didion and Dunne's unproduced screenplay of the same name. Likewise, some of Didion's research files created for <span class=\"title\">Miami</span> (1987) reappear as background research for <span class=\"title\">The Ice Queen</span> screenplay. Additionally, there are screenplay adaptations of Didion and Dunne's books. Some of their adaptations were not produced or were produced after their deaths.</p> <p>Contracts for each project can be found in Series V: Morton L. Leavy Legal Files.</p> <p>Be advised that some of Didion and Dunne's notes in the <span class=\"title\">Zone of Silence</span> UFO project include words that can be harmful and offensive.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The series is arranged alphabetically by project title.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Box 332 is closed until 2050.</p>"}
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1960
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1960
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2012
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1960
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2012

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  1. Correspondence
  2. 1984 Project [2/1]
  3. Before You Go [5/2]
  4. The Big Clock
  5. Broken Trust
  6. The City [2/1]
  7. Crossing Belmont
  8. The Day the Earth Caught Fire
  9. The Deer Park
  10. Dutch Shea, Jr. [2/1]
  11. Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
  12. Fierce People
  13. A Firing Offense
  14. The Gold Coast
  15. The Handyman
  16. Hills Like White Elephants
  17. The Ice Queen [2/1]
  18. The Katharine Graham Project [2/1]
  19. The Last Thing He Wanted [3/1]
  20. The Normals
  21. Notebook
  22. Old Gringo
  23. Operation Moses
  24. The Panic in Needle Park
  25. Play It As It Lays
  26. Playland
  27. Ploot
  28. A Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man
  29. PBS' Travels
  30. Red Corner
  31. A Star Is Born
  32. The Secret Files: Washington, Israel and the Gulf [2/1]
  33. The Set-Up
  34. Success [2/1]
  35. Ten Years Later Project
  36. The Todd Dossier
  37. True Confessions
  38. Up Close & Personal [7/2]
  39. Vegas
  40. Veronica Guerin [2/4]
  41. Walter and Cody Go Dying
  42. Water
  43. Zone of Silence UFO Project [5/2]
  44. Untitled Tom Dooley/Dr. America Project