The Hard Way

Screenplay by Daniel Pyne

This was the rewrite that put me on the map as a writer of feature films. I was working at Universal Studios, as a television writer-producer and creator, where I met William Sackheim, who helped me produce my first series, “Hard Copy,” for CBS. Bill was a friend, and my mentor, and had brought this project to Universal with him from Warners, in turnaround. The original writer, the wickedly talented Lem Dobbs, had run out of gas trying to get the script into a form th...