Daily Dialogue — December 23, 2017

“It’s hard to believe it was just last Christmas that Harmony and I changed the world. And we didn’t mean to and it didn’t last long. You know a thing like that can’t.”

— Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), screenplay by Shane Black, screen story by Shane Black, novel by Brett Halliday

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Holiday, suggested by Denise Garcia.

Trivia: Shane Black had been suffering from writer’s block. It ultimately took him over a year and a half to write the script for this film. He then had enormous trouble trying to sell it. His former cachet, as being the highest paid screenwriter, meant nothing when he was shopping his screenplay around. Eventually, he took it to Producer Joel Silver, who gave him his first break back in 1987 when he bought Lethal Weapon.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Another one of Shane Black’s Christmas movies.