When screenwriter Peter Morgan confessed recently that the shooting script for Hereafter was actually a rough draft written "very sketchily in the mountains of Austria," it explained volumes as to how the respected, Oscar-nominated writer of The Queen and Frost/Nixon became the man responsible for one of the year's most polarizing prestige efforts. It's since become clear it's not a position he likes, and apparently he's ready to throw director Clint Eastwood under the bus to get out of it.
Anne Thompson has video of her own recent, extensive chat with Morgan, who describes at the outset that his experience with Eastwood -- who earlier said of Morgan's script, "When something hits you and excites your interest, there's really no reason to kill it with improvements" -- is one he'd never had before and that he hopes he doesn't have again. He tells the story better than I ever will, so have a go. (And maybe turn your speakers up; the sound could be better.)
ยท Peter Morgan Talks Clint Eastwood's Hereafter, James Bond, Freddy Mercury, 360, and Tony Blair [TOH]