- Laurence Dworet
Dr. Laurence Dworet, M.D. (usually just credited as Laurence Dworet) is an American
screenwriter .In 1990, he and his writing partner
Robert Roy Pool sold their spec screenplay "The Ultimatum" for $500,000 against $1,000,000 if a film was made. It was the story ofterrorists who plant anatomic bomb in an American city and threaten nuclear devastation unless their demands are met.Steven Spielberg described it as one of the three most exciting scripts he had ever read and was going to direct it, but the script became bogged-down in endless rewrites.Using his medical background, Dworet and Pool wrote the screenplay for "Outbreak" which they sold to producer
Arnold Kopelson for $250,000 as he wanted a rival virus picture to Fox's "Crisis in the Hot Zone ". Kopelson then paidTed Tally $500,000 to rewrite the script.An interview with Dworet can be found in
William Froug 's book "The New Screenwriter Looks at the New Screenwriter ".
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