The Exquisite Corpse Project (2012)

Directed by

Ben Popik

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A director asks five comedy writers to each write a section of a movie script. They can only see the last five pages before writing their own part. The finished film mixes the resulting weird story with footage of the tense and funny writing process.

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What happens

The Exquisite Corpse Project is a 2012 crossover comedy/documentary from director Ben Popik and the comedy group Olde English. In the film, Popik challenges five comedy writers to each write a fifth of a film, with the constraint that each writer can only read the previous five pages of the script before writing their section. The final film is a combination of the movie written by the writers, and a documentary about the argument-provoking writing process. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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