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.500 SMITH AND WESSON MAGNUM REVOLVER MAGTECH .500 S&W MAG AMUNITION FROM BOY SHAMAN SCREENPLAY REWRITE BY TOM BENEDEK SUPERVISED BY JOHN DOWNER CHRIS BLACKWELL, LIZ HELLER, PRODUCERS UNDERLYING RIGHTS OWNED BY PALM PICTURES Benedek's work concerns issues of autobiography, irony and metaphor. Shot by the Writer began when screenwriter Tom Benedek realized he had run out of storage space in his garage, which was filled with 20 years of script projects, both produced and unmade. Among those that did become films were Cocoon, Free Willy and The Adventures of Pinocchio. But there were nearly two-dozen other completed scripts that never got a green light. He had a vision of shooting the scripts himself -- WITH A GUN. He hired a shooting coach and the project grew into a serious endeavor. He found that the objects he was creating - the shot-up scripts - were visually intricate and often quite beautiful. The poster-size prints are exotic swirls of torn paper and random words like "love" and "time." Benedek thinks of the actual shooting of these scripts as closure rather than catharsis. "Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's sad. When I look at the exit wounds, and the paper and the words exploded by the bullets as I photograph them, it feels like I'm taking the words back, like I'm creating something new from something old." And because Benedek is first and foremost a credit starved screenwriter, he is generous with his own -- every photograph includes the full provenance of the project: the title, the year it was written, the production company, the producers and the director and of course the full pedigrees of both the gun and the ammunition used in his shooting of each screenplay.