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Post Office Screenplay Signed by Bukowski & Dan Carpenter w/ Signed Letter
This is a screenplay based on Charles Bukowski’s first Novel, Post Office. Taylor Hackford owned the film rights to Post Office at this time and asked Dan Carpenter to write the screenplay. (The rights for a film based on Post Office have changed hands multiple times over the years with no production ever started.)
The screenplay is signed by both Bukowski and Carpenter on the title page and Bukowski has added his little man with a bottle sketch.
The screenplay comes with a fascinating letter signed by Carpentar. It starts with a description of his past work on screenplays, but the majority is about the Post Office screenplay and Bukowski. He recalls Bukowski and the producer of Barfly calling him once “secretly to find out if I noticed or was angry about some of the lifts they had taken from my screenplays. I did notice the lifts but did not mind and said nothing.”
The recipient of the letter (Albert Newgarden) had a copy of the screenplay. Carpentar notes there were three drafts and was interested in seeing “which draft you have.” This copy is most likely the first or second draft.
Carpentar is best known for his 1966 crime novel author of Hard Rain Falling. From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Carpenter lived in and out of Hollywood writing screenplays for movies. He wrote the screenplay for the film Payday, which was filmed in 1972 and starred Rip Torn as a country singer.
Carpenter’s best friend was Richard Brautigan and it devastated him after Brautigan committed suicide in 1984. Years later, he suffered from a number of chronic illnesses before taking his own life in 1995 with a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Mill Valley, California.
The screenplay is in Very Good ++ condition with some stains, chips and general wear to the textures paper covers. The covers are oversized on the top and right edges. The right edges have folded over and have small tears. The top eges are only slightly folded but have some small tears. The interior pages are white and clean.
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