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Brautigan in Hollywood
The Movies That Never Got Made
The movies that never got made — and the strange trail they left in the archives.
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A Hollywood story told through what isn’t there.
Richard Brautigan is remembered as the poet and novelist of the American counterculture. Less visible is his long, peculiar courtship with Hollywood: adaptations proposed, scripts discussed, meetings taken, and films that stubbornly refused to exist.
“An archaeology of almosts: contracts, conversations, and scripts pointing toward movies that never reached the screen.”
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