Horror Movie (1984)

By remarkable coincident yesterday, whilst on a country walk near Mells in Somerset, I bumped into my old friend who worked in the art department on Gothic, Peter Ettedgui, now an esteemed film producer, and he told me he'd had access to the vaults at Paramount and had come across old script coverage of Horror Movie, the film I had in development at Goldcrest in the mid-1980s. It was planned to be produced by Alan Marshall and directed by Marek Kanievska, who had just made Another Country starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth. Sadly the film was never produced, but it came close, until literally the day before Goldcrest went under. It was part of the excitedly announced Goldcrest renaissance of British film, alongside Revolution starring Al Pacino and The Mission starring Robert De Niro. I even appeared on News at Ten! Anyway this was the coverage and I'm taken aback to see, at the young age of 29, I got such positive feedback for my writing from Paramount!