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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 256937" data-attributes="member: 23">Speaking of Ellen-heavy films, I&#039;ve found <a href="http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/jaws_the_revenge.txt" target="_blank">this draft of the screenplay for Jaws The Revenge</a> which includes a scene with Matt Hooper.It&#039;s clearly a later draft, and must be fairly close to the final one used. It&#039;s obviously known here that there&#039;s no way they can get Roy Scheider to come back, so this is closer to the finished film where Sean is killed instead of Martin.Hooper appears in scenes #53-#58 in a phone call to Michael and the family.&nbsp;&nbsp; Curiously it cuts away before Matt speaks to Ellen, so there&#039;s no dialogue of any kind between original film actors Richard Dreyfuss and Lorraine Gary, which would surely be what most of the audience would want to see. Scenes #59-#63 have been omitted, so I assume there was a scripted conversation between them here which was bizarrely cut, even though it lavishes time on conversations he has with Thea and Carla.I can&#039;t quite believe that Hooper would have such a cosy relationship with the Brodys.&nbsp; It even includes references to a time Matt spent Christmas with the Brody family on Amity where Martin dressed as Father Christmas. It&#039;s like a curious Hallmark Channel version of Jaws.It&#039;s very weird and probably best it was dropped. It was already enough of a stretch to see Mrs Kintner and Mrs Taft dropping by to see Ellen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 256937, member: 23"] Speaking of Ellen-heavy films, I've found [URL='http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/jaws_the_revenge.txt']this draft of the screenplay for [I]Jaws The Revenge[/I][/URL] which includes a scene with Matt Hooper. It's clearly a later draft, and must be fairly close to the final one used. It's obviously known here that there's no way they can get Roy Scheider to come back, so this is closer to the finished film where Sean is killed instead of Martin. Hooper appears in scenes #53-#58 in a phone call to Michael and the family. Curiously it cuts away before Matt speaks to Ellen, so there's no dialogue of any kind between original film actors Richard Dreyfuss and Lorraine Gary, which would surely be what most of the audience would want to see. Scenes #59-#63 have been omitted, so I assume there was a scripted conversation between them here which was bizarrely cut, even though it lavishes time on conversations he has with Thea and Carla. I can't quite believe that Hooper would have such a cosy relationship with the Brodys. It even includes references to a time Matt spent Christmas with the Brody family on Amity where Martin dressed as Father Christmas. It's like a curious Hallmark Channel version of [I]Jaws[/I]. It's very weird and probably best it was dropped. It was already enough of a stretch to see Mrs Kintner and Mrs Taft dropping by to see Ellen. [/QUOTE]

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