The Shape of Things

Hollywood: Mépris Films / Pretty Pictures, 2001. Revised Draft script for the 2003 film. Working copy belonging to director and producer Neil LaBute, annotated throughout, bound in a three-ring binder with numerous production documents, including handwritten shot sequences, color photos, contact sheets, shooting and post-production schedules, and location and vendor lists.

Laid in with the binder are three borderless wardrobe test photographs of actor Paul Rudd in costume, an additional white set of revision pages, a manuscript shot breakdown in LaBute's hand, and three xerographically duplicated images of Rudd with a prosthetic neck. Laid into the front of the binder is a full-page newspaper advertisement for LaBute's play.

Based on the 2001 play written by LaBute. A pitch-black comedy about a frumpy literature major whose personality and appearance begins to change as he is wooed by a beautiful graduate art student.

Title page present, dated December 12, 2001, with credit for LaBute. 134 leaves, with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with blue, yellow, and pink revision pages throughout, dated variously between January 21 and February 8, 2002. Pages Near Fine, binder Near Fine.

[Book #163896]