Hitchcock Chronology: Anthony Shaffer
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Anthony Shaffer...
1970
December
- Hitchcock sends a copy of Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square to playwright Anthony Shaffer in New York, hoping to tempt him into writing the adaptation for Frenzy. Shaffer responds quickly to say that he "likes the story".[1]
- 31st - Hitchcock telephones Anthony Shaffer on New Years Eve and the playwright agrees to write the screenplay for Frenzy.[1]
1971
January
- Anthony Shaffer meets with the Hitchcocks in London to discuss Frenzy and to scout potential locations for the film.[2]
- 21st - Anthony Shaffer arrives in California to begin regular Frenzy script meetings with Hitchcock.[2]
February
- 27th - Pleased with the progress so far, Hitchcock allows Anthony Shaffer to return to New York in order to complete the first-draft screenplay with dialogue for Frenzy.[3]
- By late February, Anthony Shaffer and Hitchcock have produced a 55 page treatment for Frenzy, which drops several parts of Arthur La Bern's novel to help streamline the plot.[4]
March
- With Anthony Shaffer working on the Frenzy screenplay in New York, Hitchcock storyboards key sequences for the film during March.[3]
April
- 9th - Hitchcock receives Anthony Shaffer's first draft of the Frenzy screenplay and spends the weekend reading it.[5]
- 19th - Having flown in from New York, Anthony Shaffer meets with Hitchcock to discuss further revisions to the Frenzy screenplay. By now, the screenplay has become 160 pages long.[5]
- 30th - Alma reads the Frenzy screenplay and provides a number of script and continuity issues for Anthony Shaffer to address.[6]
May
- 23rd - The Hitchcocks dine with Anthony Shaffer and his wife at their home on the Sunday evening. The following week will be spent discussing casting options for Frenzy.[7]
June
- 3rd - Anthony Shaffer submits his first revision of the Frenzy screenplay.[7]
1972
May
- 29th - In a letter to the editor published in The Times, author Arthur La Bern voices his disapproval of how his 1966 novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square was adapted into Frenzy by Hitchcock and Anthony Shaffer.[8]
2001
November
- 6th - Dramatist Anthony Shaffer, who wrote the screenplay for Frenzy, dies aged 75.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, pages 11-12
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 19
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 26
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, pages 22-23
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 27
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 28
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 41
- ↑ The Times (29/May/1972) - Letters to the Editor: Hitchcock's "Frenzy"
