[Groop] I'm back....and an OT Question for M.E.

[Mark Evanier]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:09:00 +0200, "Joe F" <car at urbanchant.com>
wrote:

>Mark...I've got a little Hollywood/writers' question for you, if you have a moment to spare. In general,
>if a movie (or tv show) uses a "script consultant", is that somewhat regarded as a negative sign in
>the vein of "the original writers weren't cutting it"? 

ME: No.  It means that someone contributed to the story in some way,
perhaps trivial, and the producers wanted to (or contractually, had
to) find some way to give that person a credit.  It could be that the
person did research or had input of some sort.
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