Timing Run (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

Author: Ray Bradbury (script consultant); Bob Jacobs (screenwriter)
Title: Timing Run (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
Publication: N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s

Description: Draft script for an unproduced film. With annotations throughout in manuscript ink.

A professional motorcycle racer stumbles upon a wormhole along the roads of his hometown in rural Wisconsin. The wormhole switches him with himself from forty years in the future, each version threatening to ruin the other's reality.

Ray Bradbury mentored Bob Jacobs throughout his career in writing, music, and filmmaking. Having met at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the pair had a close father-and-son relationship, the subject of an autobiography published by Jacobs in 2020.

Set in Oshkosh, WI.

Tan wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Bob Jacobs, and consultant Ray Bradbury. 83 leaves, with last page of text numbered 85. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads.

Seller ID: 141548

Subject: Fantasy, Film Scripts, Motorcycles, Science Fiction, Unproduced Films



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