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Tom Stoppard – Unpublished Screenplays

Tom Stoppard has the writing credit for the following screenplays:

G1 The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)

Directed by Joseph Losey. Based on the novel by Thomas Wiseman. Released in November 1975.

G2 Three Men in a Boat (1975)

Directed by Stephen Frears. Based on the novel by Jerome K. Jerome. A BBC TV film first shown on 31^st December 1975.

G3 Despair (1978)

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Released in September 1978.

G4 The Human Factor (1979)

Directed by Otto Preminger. Based on the novel by Graham Greene. Released in January 1980.

Stoppard G4 screenplay front cover

G5 Brazil (1985)

Directed by Terry Gilliam. Released in December 1985.

The MW collection has a copy bound with metal clips in yellow card covers. The cover sheet is dated October 1983 and there are 138 numbered pages of text.

Stoppard G5 front cover

G6 Empire of the Sun (1987)

Directed by Steven Spielberg. Based on the novel by J.G. Ballard. Released in December 1987.

The MW collection has a copy bound with two metal clips and yellow card covers. The cover sheet credits Tom Stoppard with the screenplay and second draft and Menno Meyjes with the third draft. This copy is the shooting script dated 2^nd February 1987 and has stamps from Amblin (Confidential – Do Not Copy) and Story Library ‘Received MAR 17 1987’. There is a memo sheet with scene notes from Steven Spielberg and pages of text numbered 1-160.

Stoppard G6 front cover

G7 The Russia House (1990)

Directed by Fred Schepisi. Based on the novel by John Le Carré. Released December 1990.

In the MW collection is a duplicated copy noted on the cover sheet as Second Draft (revised) and with revision dates from 24^th August to 29^th November 1989. Pages have typed scene numbers and some have page numbers written by hand.

Stoppard G7 front cover

G8 Billy Bathgate (1991)

Directed by Robert Benton. Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow. Released November 1991.

The MW collection has a copy bound with three brass brads labelled ‘third draft’ and dated 6^th August 1990.

Stoppard G8 front cover

G9 Poodle Springs (1991)

Directed by Bob Rafelson. Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler. First shown on HBO July 1998.

G10 Vatel (2000)

Directed by Roland Joffé. Based on a screenplay by Jeanne Labrune and adapted to English by Tom Stoppard. Released in May 2000.

G11 Enigma (2002)

Directed by Michael Apted. Based on a novel by Robert Harris. Released June 2002.

G12 Tulip Fever (2014)

Directed by Justin Chadwick. Based on a novel by Deborah Moggach. Released in September 2017.