Screenwriting : Here's a poster and stills from the Billy Bob Thornton flick I wrote. It opens internationally March 28th. by J/R Reher

Fantastic, J/R! Best of luck with it!!

Directed by the "Saw" director, soon to be know as the "Pawed" director. I always wonder where the writing stops and production and director add visual touches not in the writing....like, Billy Bob's damage, or the other damage seen in the pics....all written in the script?

I pulled up dozens of bear mauling articles and used descriptions from those attacks within the script for the various scenes/attacks so the production could re-imagine for the screen. This was a very personal script when I wrote it. Originally, Adrien Brody was going to star and produce. Then other producers came on and re-cast. Things change. Plot points change. But my initial script is what got the actors signed onto it.

I see there is another production called Red Machine...2009. Probably straight to DVD. Thornton's work on Jane Mansfields Car (director/star) is excellent, and his ideas and sensibility are always fascinating and thoughtful. I hope he doesn't get too chewed up....you know, some duct tape, and you're good to go.....

I titled it after what Treadwell named a bear on Letterman... supposedly, that bear (The Red Machine) is the one that ate him and his fiance. The Grizzly Man... it's now entitled Endangered by the studio...