Editore: Columbia Pictures, Culver City, CA, 1989
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
Two different Draft scripts for the 1990 film. Both are working scripts, one with annotations throughout in manuscript pencil. Both here under the original title, "Lambada! The Forbidden Dance." After her home in the Amazon rainforest is threatened, a princess (Harring) from an indigenous tribe heads to Los Angeles to express her complaints and decides to bring attention to her cause with a Lambada dance contest broadcast on live television. The film was hoping to cash in on the then-current Lambada dance craze. Set in the Amazon and Los Angeles, shot on location in LA. First draft: Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1989, with credits for screenwriters Roy Langsdon, and John Platt. 105 leaves, with last page of text numbered 104, with blue revision pages throughout. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Second draft: Green titled wrappers, notated as copy No. 005. Title page present, dated 1989, with credits for screenwriters Roy Langsdon, and John Platt. 85 leaves, with last page of text numbered 84. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Carlson and Connolly, Destroy All Movies.
Editore: Cine-Paris, Paris, 1980
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the French release of the 1980 US film. One photograph with the stamp of Cine-Paris Distributors to the verso. A group of teenagers on a camping trip are relentlessly hunted down by an extraterrestrial who uses smaller, jellyfish-esque creatures with needle-tipped tentacles as living weapons. The majority of the film's budget was purportedly spent crafting the head of the alien, costing producer-screenwriter Daniel Grodnik $19,000. Set in the American Midwest and shot on location in Malibu, California. 7 x 5 inches. About Fine. McPadden, Heavy Metal Movies. Thrower, Nightmare USA.