PODCAST – Build Out Your Script: Choosing The Right Idea To Write

There's a famous story about M. Knight Shyamalan in the process of writing The Sixth Sense. Somewhere around Shyamalan’s fourth draft of The Sixth Sense, a movie called Casper came out, and Shyamalan famously threw out his draft, called his agent, and said "Well, Casper the Friendly Ghost came out so there goes that."

Fortunately, he had good people around him who forced him to keep writing. But what's really interesting is that it wasn't until somewhere around the tenth draft of The Sixth Sense that Shyamalan realized what the idea really was.

You see, in that early draft, the truth was, Shyamalan was right. All he was really doing at that point was a live action update of Casper the Friendly Ghost. Because, at that point, Shyamalan had not yet realized that Bruce Willis's character was dead...

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