Man on the Moon (Original screenplay for the 1999 film)

  • N.p.: Jersey Films / Cinehaus, 1998
By Andy Kaufman (subject); Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti (starring); Milo Forman (director); Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski (screenwriters)
N.p.: Jersey Films / Cinehaus, 1998. Seventh Draft script for the 1999 film. Copy belonging to still photographer François Duhamel, with his name watermarked on all white leaves and several blue leaves in the script.

A dramatization of the life of Andy Kaufman, charting his early days as a struggling, offbeat stage comedian, to his rise to success through appearances on "Taxi" and "Saturday Night Live," ending with his untimely death from a rare lung cancer at the age of 35. Actor Jim Carrey's dedicated portrayal of Kaufman became the subject of a 2017 documentary, "Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond."

Sot on location throughout Los Angeles, and in Baguio City, Philippines.

Self wrappers. Title page present, dated May 27, 1998, noted as SEVENTH DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski and director Milos Forman (sic). 140 leaves, with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with yellow, blue, and pink revision pages throughout, dated variously between May 28 and July 21, 1998. Pages Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.

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