No but I worked at Scott Rudin Productions on the Disney studio lot in LA for a while after I left school. It was a mix between utter chaos and then hours sitting around doing nothing. They had a script library with thousands of submitted scripts, and one of the things we were allowed to do was read anything without a red cover (marked for production) and if we found something good we could suggest it to the producers.

The two best I read were from directors/writers I noticed by name, Nolan and Alfonso Cuaron. Interstellar and Gravity. Neither were in production at the time or being considered, but I read probably a hundred scripts while I was there. Actually a number of enjoyable ones.

Gravity had theatrical changes to the core story of the main character’s struggle, but they were actually improvements, imo. Interstellar completely changed its core theme to something completely different and even ruined one of my favorite conversations in the film. The conversation between Damon and Mcconaughey was originally him talking to an Ai humanoid, which made the meaning of their conversation far more impactful. The Ai was explaining to him that humans were still needed because they still had “better programming.”

Not going to explain it all in a Nostr note, but it was far more like a scientific puzzle and contemplation of the future in the script, while the movie was all “we can quantify love!” 😒