Ben Stiller (director) TROPIC THUNDER (2007) Rainbow film script and production archive

[Los Angeles]: Dreamworks Pictures, 2007. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2″ (28 x 22 cm), 114 pp. Brad bound, a true rainbow script (with dated revisions on many colors of paper incorporating rewrites of sixteen different dates, utilizing 10 different colors of paper. The earliest version is dated 5/1/07 on white paper, and the final is the 2nd buff revisions, dated 11/4/07.) A sliver of paper is torn in the area of the bottom brad. A name was at one time written at top of title page and was whited out. Just about fine.

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Approximately 200 pp. of daily production reports and 80 pp. of call sheets, in two separate stiff manila folders, bound with brass clasps.

A 2008 satirical action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, who wrote the screenplay with Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel and Brandon T. Jackson as a group of primadonna actors making a Vietnam War film. When their frustrated director (Steve Coogan) drops them in the middle of a jungle and dies in an accident, they are forced to rely on their acting skills to survive the real action and danger.

Tropic Thunder parodies many prestigious war films (specifically those based on the Vietnam War), the Hollywood studio system and method acting. The ensemble cast includes Nick Nolte, Danny McBride, Matthew McConaughey, Bill Hader and Tom Cruise. (Wikipedia)

The screenplay is credited to Stan Cohen, Ben Stiller and Justin Theroux, with the current revisions credited to Stiller and Theroux. The script is sold along with two massive production folders.