Writer Mark Lamprell on the screenplay he helped write for George Miller

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http://if.com.au/2016/04/27/article/George-Millers-Contact-Writer-Mark-Lamprell-recalls-what-might-have-been/LNYTUXGDZS.html

Writer Mark Lamprell, quoted from the article linked above:

"We spent six months writing the screenplay, and I was very much the
junior writer with Menno Meyjes .... It was really Menno driving it,
with George [Miller] and Lynda Obst as well, the producer."

"... We went from being a greenlit movie to it all going away. ..."

"It was a much more interesting screenplay ...."
"... Ours was much more ambitious intellectually."

"Because of my Jesuit connections I was able to get all those amazing Jesuit scientists in, to talk to us about how you operate as a man of faith in the world of science. We were having really interesting conversations, and Carl [Sagan] was thrilled to be having those. ..."