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Correspondence between Jack Epps, Jr. and Peter Berg, 2003-2004. 4 letters. The detailed folder descriptions come from these letters.

Scope and Contents This is the first script written by Cash and Epps based on their own original idea. This is a draft that was optioned by Producer/Director Bud Yorkin, producer of ALL IN THE FAMILY, but was never produced. The rights reverted to Cash and Epps and we currently hold all worldwide rights. This screenplay is the end result of 2 ½ years of work using the mails, cassette tape, and phone conversations. We wrote several drafts of the screenplay, but I do not believe they exist. I am continuing to...

Scope and Contents The second script written by Cash and Epps based on their own original idea. This is a spec script that was sold to the highest bidder in 1978. I was in Beijing, China on as a cameraman on a documentary crew making a film about higher education in China. We got a pretty good price for the screenplay and I was half way across the world. It was very frustrating that I couldn’t celebrate with anyone. I couldn’t really tell the film crew since I kept my writing life completely secret to my film...

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This is the fourth screenplay written by Cash and Epps based on our own original idea. We were hired by CBS Pictures, which was a short-lived department at CBS and has since been dissolved. CBS holds the rights, but I’m sure they don’t have a clue the screenplay even exists.

These 23 pages is a first attempt to write BLACKTHORNE. They didn’t pan out.

Scope and Contents This is the first and only draft of BLACKTHORNE. We never revised it. In many ways it was way ahead of its time in terms of huge comic book approach and the massive visuals. I think people read it and thought we were out of our minds. If you look at this and think about this being done with computer graphics, it would be visually stunning. It was never produced. There was a change of jobs at the executive level and the project never went forward. Jim and I made leatherette covers...

Scope and Contents Our actual work on the project ended with Dick Benjamin. We didn’t work with Mr. Beatty. That was very disappointing since there was still a lot of character and character relationship work to be done. During the production, Mr. Beatty seemed to focus way too much on the art direction and not enough on the relationship between Tracy, Tess and Junior. It was supposed to be the story of a lonely man who finds a family by adopting this street urchin. It was also the story of a man torn between...

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This is a collection of the published newspaper strips. I was going to use these if we did a sequel.

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Another collection of published strips. I was going to use these if we did a sequel.