Southern Story

N.p. N.p., 2000. Draft script for an unproduced film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the front wrapper.

From the archive of crew member Chris Scher.

A drama set in the Louisiana bayou, about a man who discovers he has terminal cancer, and decides to undergo experimental treatment. Screenwriters Thomas Haden Church and David Denney would go on to co-write the 2003 comedy film "Rolling Kansas."

Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker, construction accountant/estimator/buyer, and carpenter on over 20 movies, including "The Last Seduction" (1994), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "From Dusk Till Dawn" (1994), "The Horse Whisperer (1998), "Joy Ride" (2001), and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas, including "The Bridge" (2014), "Ozark" (2017), and "Yellowstone" (2018).

Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 5-1-00, with credits for Denney and Church. 60 leaves, with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication, printed on rectos and versos. Pages Poor, with a large dampstain affecting the last 50 leaves, wrapper Very Good, bound with two gold brads.

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