Drive [Road to Ruin] (Original screenplay for the 1997 film)

  • Los Angeles: Neo Motion Pictures, 1996
By Brittany Murphy, Mark Dacascos, Kadeem Hardison (starring); Steve Wang (director); Scott Phillips (screenwriter)
Los Angeles: Neo Motion Pictures, 1996. Draft script for the 1997 film, seen here under the working titles "Road to Ruin" and "Driven." Working copy belonging to actor Sean Moran, with his annotations in manuscript pencil on the title page, front wrapper, and nine pages of the script, and two call sheets laid in. A then-new blend of martial arts and traditional fist-and-guns action that has become a cult classic.

A Hong Kong man with an experimental implant which gives him super-strength and speed must flee from Chinese mercenaries, who have been employed to steal the device.

Shot on location in Santa Clarita, Los Angeles, and Lancaster, California.

Gray generic Neo Motion Pictures wrappers. Title page present, dated 1.2.96, noted as Draft, with credits for screenwriter Scott Phillips and storywriter Anthony Trifiletti. 104 leaves, with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good, bound with two gold brads.

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