Scripts

Demon Seed (Screenplay)

Version A

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Release Date: No date [c.1975]
Publisher: Herb Jaffe Productions

by Elliott Harold

Stone auction description:
[1], 112 pp. (mechanically reproduced leaves printed on rectos only). 11x8½, orange paper "ICM" wrappers, bound with three metal pins, spine titled in ink. Early Draft version of the Screenplay.
Screenplay produced for International Creative Management and Herb Jaffe Productions. Herb Jaffe would later produce the 1977 film. Includes the first paperback edition, Bantam, [1973], with some wear, just very good.


Version B

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Release Date: December 15, 1975
Publisher: Camp Hill Productions

by Robert Jaffe

Stone auction description:
[1], 123 pp. (mechanically reproduced leaves printed on rectos only). 11x8½, sheets bound with two metal pins. Third Draft of the Movie Script.
Inscribed and signed by Koontz on the title page: "To Art Stone - One more version for your collection. But don't you understand yet - the movies don't count, it's the book that is deathless, immortal, cosmic. Best, Dean R. Koontz."


Version C

Release Date: April 9, 1976
Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Inc.

by Robert J. Jaffe & Roger O. Hirson

Stone auction description:
119 pp. (mechanically reproduced leaves printed on rectos only). 11x8½, orange MGM paper wrappers, bound with two metal pins. Early Draft of the original Movie Script.
Inscribed and signed by Koontz on the front cover: "To Art Stone - One of my great regrets is that they closed the set to outsiders (like me) the day Julie Christie did the nude scene! Dean R. Koontz." Penciled name Mel Rydell and "77" rubberstamped, on the front cover. Made into the 1977 film produced by Herb Jaffe, directed by Donald Cammell, and starring Julie Christie and Fritz Weaver. Includes a folding pictorial invitation card from MGM to attend a "Special Showing" of Demon Seed at the MGM Theatre in Culver City, April 4, 1977, laid in.

Copy shown is not the copy from the Stone auction.


Version D

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Release Date: May 17, 1976
Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Inc.

by Robert J. Jaffe & Roger Hirson with additions by Elia Katz

Stone auction description:
96 pp. (mechanically reproduced gray, white and blue leaves printed on rectos only). 11x8½, orange MGM paper wrappers, bound with two metal pins. The Final Shooting Script Screenplay.
Inscribed and signed by Koontz on the front cover: "To Art Stone - This was a good movie in spite of the fact that I didn't write the screenplay! Dean R. Koontz." Number "192" rubberstamped on the front cover. Original 11x8½" program card for the 1977 film listing the cast and filming credits on the verso and an advertisement leaf extracted from The Hollywood Reporter of June 1, 1977, included.


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