The Hangover Director Is Pissed!

The Hangover director Todd Philips has a bone to pick with the Writer’s Guild, as the man who did final script overhaul received no writing credit!

“I’m not a big fan of the Writers Guild,” said Phillips, calling it “The WGA — the Whiners Guild of America.”

Jeremy Garelick, co-writer of Maniston flick The Break Up, did substantial rewrites of Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s original script for The Hangover, but the WGA would not include Garelick’s name in the credits.

“The Writers Guild has these insane rules . . . you have to prove this insane amount of work — and they have very nebulous rules about what that work is. Jeremy did a massive amount of work,” exclaimed Philips. “And the [bleep]ed-up part is it’s not even the fault of the original writers. They even agreed [to share credit]. But the Writers Guild was like, ‘No, no, you’re being pressured by the director, so we’re not going to stand for this.’ It’s just astounding.”

The director continued, “If you look at the original script . . . Mike Tyson was not in the movie, there was no tiger, there was no baby, there was no cop car . . . We’re not talking about tweaks, we’re talking about massive rewriting.”

Those were the highlights of the movie!!!!

Phillips also fumed, “Judd Apatow did a massive amount of rewriting on The Cable Guy, which a lot of people don’t know about.”

Garelick was extremely gracious stating, “Jon and Scott wrote a fantastic spec script . . . I feel very lucky to have such a great relationship with Todd that I could help him shape their brilliant concept.”

If everyone in Hollywood had that combination of talent and loyalty, we’d have nothing to write about!

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