![]() Paramount Pictures The Ghost of Christmas Past was supposed to be Sam Kinison (!) but Murray insisted on his pal Buster Poindexter. Suddenly, there’s a little knock knock knock on the trailer door.” And shivering in the cold, at 5:30 in the morning, there’s O’Donoghue, wearing bedroom slippers, pinstripe pajamas, and a ski hat, waiting to make Bill happy. “And while we’re talking in the trailer, the crew’s standing outside, turning blue. Bill said, “I don’t know about the way this script is written.” And, because the days were so short, we were on set really early in the morning. “We were in New York City during the winter, so it was bitter cold. “I have a beautiful image of the very first day I shot with Bill,” remembers Allen. “I think the script was wonderful."Īnd yet Murray was never satisfied, making life miserable for O’Donoghue, himself a real-life Scrooge. “I agree with Carol,” says Karen Allen, who played Murray’s love interest. “I worshiped the film’s writing,” said Carol Kane, who spooked up the joint as the Ghost of Christmas Present. “ Psychos seize Santa’s workshop - and only Lee Majors can stop them!” Play Oy, the script. It features some of the funniest scenes of any Murray movie, including the opening promo for a bloody TV movie, The Night the Reindeer Died. The family scenes (which featured real-life siblings Joel and Brian Doyle Murray) were kind of off, so we worked on that.” To remake the story, we took the romantic element and built that up a little more. "We tore up the script so badly that we had parts all over the lawn,” he says. But once Murray decided the Scrooged screenplay was a go, he proceeded to rip it to shreds. He finally found a script he liked - or at least, one he didn’t hate? - from an old pal, Saturday Night Live icon Michael O’Donoghue (along with co-writer Mitch Glazer). But “ when I wanted to work, the scripts were just not good. So Murray bolted for Europe to catch his breath and consider what came next.įour years later (an eternity in actor-career terms), Murray was ready to get back to it. His previous movie, Ghostbusters, was the kind of phenomenon that made it hard for a Chicago slob/comedy superstar to cross the street without being accosted by fans. Murray had been on a long, self-imposed sabbatical before making Scrooged. Paramount Pictures The making of Scrooged could drive a man to drink. Let’s travel to a Christmas Past to learn how a Yuletide classic was born out of severe seasonal depression. But like a Christmas dinner featuring frozen ham, feuding relatives, and fermented fruitcake, the making of Scrooged was a tinsel-laden torment for everyone involved. ![]()
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