The Tourist – Clair Noto ‘Most descriptions of The Tourist start with comparisons to the films that it went on to inspire, titles as varied as Blade Runner, Species, Under the Skin and Men in Black. It was at one time the most popular script in town with studios fighting over the chance to produce what many have called the greatest unmade sci-fi script of all time. It was passed from studio to studio and pre-production was plagued with personal animosities and fist fights. Eventually it landed at Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope, where it languished under the studio’s implosion’

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