There were some other choices I that wouldn’t have made, but the basic shape and heart of the story didn’t change. My original idea of the parrot was a little more gentle and the studio went with a more comedic, sarcastic tone for the bird’s voice. When do you need it?” And he’d say there were going to start shooting that scene in five minutes. The director would say “We need a transitional line here.” And I’d say, “Okay. It was heavily re-written by other screenwriters but then I was brought back to heavily re-write them and did so all during principal photography. How much of your script was left intact or re-written? They were certainly the inspiration for the wild birds that Paulie meets in Los Angeles. I wrote the script during the summer and some wild parrots just happened to be flocking in my neighborhood that year. Then I read about the amazing African Grey parrot named Alex who had a large vocabulary and was very bonded with his researcher. I was inspired by seeing a lone parrot in a cage and I wondered what it would be like if he could actually tell me his life story. She kindly answered all of our questions through email and here is a copy of the interview:ĭid you came up with the story or were you assigned the basic pitch of the movie? got in touch with Laurie Craig, who wrote the script for the movie.
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