William Monahan's first draft of the script was 186 pages. Executive producer Lisa Ellzey was worried that, when such a large script was submitted to Fox for budget approval, the studio would balk at the length, so she called what she refers to as a "parenthetical meeting". According to Ellzey, almost every piece of dialogue in Monahan's script was preceded by a parenthetical description of how the lines should be spoken. She removed every single parenthetical (much to Monahan's chagrin), and thus managed to get the page count down by twenty pages, before sending it to Fox.
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