In Hollywood, many a first draft bears little resemblance to the final product. Over the weekend, Variety inadvertently replicated that arc on Twitter.
Here’s the first draft of a Jan. 24 tweet by the Hollywood trade, screen-captured appropriately enough by screenwriter J.P. Ouellette:
And here’s the subsequent final version:
What makes this minor episode a little more chuckle-worthy is that Ouellette once worked as a production assistant on Ben Affleck’s The Town and as a set production assistant on the actor-director’s earlier effort Gone Baby Gone.
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