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Jeff Vintar was about to script a remake of The Lady from Shanghai for Columbia Pictures when an executive asked him to read a script for Final Fantasy. The studio did not understand the project. They just knew it needed a re-write, and asked Vintar to do what he could in two weeks. Vintar read the draft and told them they needed to start over from scratch. They didn't need to hire a two-week re-writer, he said. They needed to hire someone who could stay on the project for six months, or a year! The studio responded by saying Vintar could have three weeks. So he took the job and rewrote the entire script in three weeks. What he never imagined was that the script would be translated into the Japanese and then re-translated back into English, making the dialogue sound stilted, like a dubbed anime. Or that everyone including the director's secretary would be writing inexplicable dialogue as the script continued to develop. The end result, of course, did not make for a very strong screenplay. Talking about the project now, Vintar points out that Sakaguchi and his team were truly entering unexplored territory: photo-real human beings. James Cameron himself went out to see the studio in Honolulu and, upon seeing their progress, knew he would never be first. "It was the year 2001," Vintar said, "and the movie was itself a science-fiction." On a sad end note, his passion-project remake of The Lady from Shanghai landed Brendan Fraser, who wanted to star with Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones - but at the last minute the John Woo-produced project was scuttled by Amy Pascal, who wanted to focus on teen pictures.

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