Talk:Charlie Kaufman

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2 I like my cheese hot!
3 Suicide?
4 Shivers

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[edit] I like my cheese hot!

This article is out of date. Kaufman's latest script may be A Scanner Darkly based on a story by Philip K Dick. A film seems to be currently in production, but based on a different screenplay not by Kaufman. — 203.222.154.2 04:26, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The film A Scanner Darkly is in post-production, written and directed by Richard Linklater from Dick's story. Kaufman's first draft of the script in 1997, but it's unknown if he revised it or wrote any others.

Kaufman's screenplay for A Scanner Darkly was written for another studio. When the project changed hands, Kaufman's screenplay could no longer be used because someone else owned the rights to it. (Ibaranoff24 19:00, 27 June 2006 (UTC))

A horror film written by Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze is in the early stages -- the plot is being kept under wraps.

[edit] Suicide?

Someone who knows better than I do should clarify this sentence: "In the world of the play, it was the last thing Charlie Kaufman wrote before he committed suicide." He is listed as a living person and IMDB also lists him as alive. I haven't done any research beyond that, but the sentence is extremely misleading. Was Charlie a character in the plan, similar to the deal with Adaptation? --Rocketgoat 21:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

This is misleading - Charlie Kaufman is not dead. This is a reference to the plot of Hope Leaves the Theatre. In the world of the play, its writer (a self reference to Kaufman) commits suicide. [1] --23:12, 7 March 2006 (UTC)Ed