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Saved! Full Production Notes "Heaven Help Us."
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 Chapter 1: Getting Saved!Producers Sandy Stern and Michael Stipe were sent the script for Saved! in 1999 after the success of Being John Malkovich prompted a flood of scripts to their company, Single Cell Pictures. "You might think it would be easy to choose a project," says Stern, "but obviously, it's really hard to find a good script, something you believe in so much you're willing to spend a few years of your life on it and shed blood, sweat, and tears to get it made.
"When I read a script," he continues, "I look for something original, something that stands apart from the crowd, a story that is told in an exciting new way. When I read Saved!, it was so of the moment, so topical, had something to say, and it was funny. It reminded me of one of those classic John Hughes movies, but spun in an entirely unique way."
Producer Stipe agrees with Stern. "I thought it was one of the funnier and more absolutely audacious, subversive scripts I had seen in some time," he says. "I just fell in love with the characters and the story immediately."
Stern admits that the Saved! storyline also held a particular personal appeal. "There has always been a part of me that's an arrested adolescent," he says. "High school is a time we all look back on ` every single one of us ` and for so many of us, those were some of the worst years of our lives. Part of Saved! is about being the outsider in high school, and unfortunately, I was able to relate to that. I think many people can."
Writer/director Brian Dannelly (who co-wrote the script with Michael Urban while they were enrolled at the American Film Institute) says Saved! came about as a result of his own diverse background. "As a kid I went to Catholic elementary school, Christian high school, and a Jewish summer camp," he says. "The biggest lesson I learned from my experiences became a line in the script: `They can't all be wrong and they can't all be right.' I wanted to write a movie based on that. I wanted to write a movie that was grounded with the iconography of a mainstream teen movie yet incorporated concepts and ideas you would never see in those kinds of movies ` an accessible film with an independent spirit."
Recalling the strict rules of his school years, Dannelly says, "In my high school, we weren't allowed to dance," he says. "Everybody had to be at least 6 inches away from the opposite sex at all times. We had record burnings, and the entertainment at my senior prom was a puppet show` it wasn't very exciting."
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