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#100 - Jaws (1975)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The History of Jaws

There's a Jaws dedicated website about the history of the entire franchise. Peter Benchley wrote three drafts and he refused to do anymore. Spielberg brought in Howard Sackler, which I don't know Howard Sackler's background. John Milius apparently there's a Spielberg credits him with writing a 10 page version of the Indianapolis monologue. And then Robert Shaw rewrote all of that and made it what it is.

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