Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbus, a self-proclaimed Charles Dickens fans, wrote Gremlims, Goonies, and Young Sherlock Holmes, and is currently sitting on or near the top of the film-writing pile.
His latest youthful leading man, the pint-sized Sherlock Holmes, is so precocious as to be almost wholly unchildlike. Columbus says he scoured Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books for hints at the genesis of the "cold, emotionless bachelor" that Holmes was to become. At one point, Columbus reports, one...
Even with in-laws to draw upon, it can take a long time to write a successful script. Gremlins took nine drafts, including one which killed off most of the family. Goonies was tapped out much more quickly, under studio pressure, but Young Sherlock Holmes's first draft took nine...
Sherlock Holmes: I suppose you know why I am here, Dewitt? Dewitt: No. I don't have a clue.
My past? You're the one who gets Steven Spielberg to summon up every special effect in the book to turn your youth into another Pop Pipe Dream. Swinging from chandeliers? You look more like the debating team type to me, but I guess that's not enough for our...