Uncover the Untold Secrets of Screenwriting with Jack Epps in This Exclusive Go Into The Story Interview
Tracy had a lot of stop and starts, so when Landis and then Hill left the project, we’d be writing other things. Our next project was Top Gun. We’d do some work on Top Gun and then we’d be pulled back to Tracy for a new director, and then jump back to Top Gun. We turned down Beverly Hills Cop because we wanted finish Top Gun. After Benjamin left the project to do City Heat with Clint Eastwood, the whole thing shut down, and it appeared to be dead. Then a few years later, Warren Beatty ended up with the rights and moved it from Paramount to Disney with our script.
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