RENT screenplay with Jonathan Larson as a Character?

[Annas_Priest]

RENT screenplay with Jonathan Larson as a Character?#1

Posted: 5/28/11 at 3:08pm

I came across a draft of the RENT screenplay that is copyrighted from 2004 and by a guy named Glenn Ripps. It's utterly crazy. Jonathan Larson was intended to be a Character in it and his life was to intertwine with with characters.

I have the script if you PM me, but does anyone have any more info on it?

[Steel Pier Fan]

RENT screenplay with Jonathan Larson as a Character?#2

Posted: 5/28/11 at 3:22pm

I thought the characters were based on him and his friends? Sorry if I'm wrong. Also, I thought Mark was based on him?

[orangeskittles]

RENT screenplay with Jonathan Larson as a Character?#2

Posted: 5/28/11 at 3:25pm

It was a fan fiction piece, that's it.

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

[Annas_Priest]

RENT screenplay with Jonathan Larson as a Character?#3

Posted: 5/28/11 at 3:26pm

This draft seemed to be trying to marry tick tick.. BOOM and RENT. Jonathan and his friend Michael are both characters in it.

[Kad]

RENT screenplay with Jonathan Larson as a Character?#4

Posted: 5/28/11 at 3:26pm

A simple IMDB search for this writer will suggest that there is no way this was being seriously considered, if it was even distributed amongst studio personnel.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."