Uncover the Untold Secrets of Screenwriting with Jack Epps in This Exclusive Go Into The Story Interview
Jack: It was. What was unique about that project was that as writers we stayed on the project and the directors kept falling off. That doesn’t happen. We started with John Landis. I would’ve liked the Landis version a lot. It would have had a lot of energy. But John had that terrible Twilight Zone accident and he exited the project.
Walter Hill came onboard with Joe Silver as producer. Walter taught me a lot. At that time, we had nothing produced and I was taken with all the Dick Tracy characters and it was all about the different faces and all the different people. Walter said, “No, the movie’s about Dick Tracy. He has to be in every scene because when you cast an actor, the actor wants to be in every scene. He does not want to play second fiddle.” That was a good lesson. Then Walter left the project for budgetary reasons. The project moved over to Paramount and Dick Benjamin came on board. We did a draft for Dick Benjamin that was like, “We’re going to do the low budget draft, guys.”
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