Did you know …
That the 1995 film Outbreak was based on an incident that was entirely contained in its screenwriters’ bedroom? It’s true. According to Lawrence Dworet’s subscription-only blog, in 1993 he and his writing partner, Robert Roy Pool, found a small puddle of vomit in the middle of their shared room, and spent the next 17 hours arguing over who had put it there. Dworet claimed that it looked just like Pool’s normal pukes, and Pool countered that if the vomit had come from the top bunk (his), the splatter pattern would have been entirely different. And so on.
The original draft of the screenplay was much more of a medical-themed whodunit mystery, but it gradually morphed into the larger scale contagion/epidemic thriller. The pile of puke, Dworet later explained, did make both of the writers sick for the day of arguing, and so the plot adjustments still felt natural.
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