Postcards from a Dying World
Postcards from a Dying World
David Agranoff
Episode 184 Unproduced Screenplay Series- John Carpenter’s (almost) Shadow Company
1 hour 22 minutes Posted Aug 25, 2025 at 11:37 am.
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Welcome to a new sub-series of the podcast devoted to screenplays for movies that never got made. There are tons of famous screenplays from Oliver Stone’s first draft of Conan to Del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness. For each episode in this series, we will read and review a script that never got made.

In this episode, I am joined by author Anthony Trevino and Musician/Filmmaker Issa Diao to discuss The Unproduced Shadow Company by Shane Black and Fred Dekker which was supposed to be John Carpenter’s follow-up to They Live in 1988. This cult classic script that was cross between Platoon and Night of the Living Dead is something of a legend. We break it down.