Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind the Making of “Juice”

August 6th, 2012 - By Veronica Wells

Source: HipHopWeekly.com

It was just a writing sample

Gerard Brown originally started out as a playwright but eventually moved on to screenwriting. He and Dickerson, who went to college together, both moved to New York to pursue their perspective dreams. Dickerson came up with Juice and gave Brown only four scenes to build from. Since the two were friends, Brown wrote the script for free. After it was finished it sat on the shelf for three years. Brown eventually obtained an agent and she asked Brown to send her everything he’d ever written. There was a group of director’s who were in the market for a screenwriter and Brown’s agent sent over Juice as a writing sample. They loved it and decided to make that film.

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  • brodi

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  • JustSayin

    “You got the Juice now” – Favorite Line!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1279772105 Anita Cates Hodges

    Don’t worry Tee, the video didn’t actually show an alternate ending. It was just one of the writers briefly talking about Bishop actually letting go of Q’s grip and choosing to die instead of going to jail.

    • http://twitter.com/MadameGigglez Sailor Moon

      Eww… Good thing that 1 was scrapped.

  • Brivvy

    Sucks viewing this on mobile because every page there is that ad that you have to wait 10 seconds before you could close….

  • http://twitter.com/MsRedboneBrite Tee Elyse

    Pissed my computer at work won’t let me see what the original ending was… LOVED this movie! Still one of my all time favs! & I’m so glad that talks of a remake died, because I would’ve if they ever decided to be funny and cast Soulja Boy as Bishop!!

    • dimple

      The ending was basically going to be the same set up. Bishop hanging off the building w/ Q trying to save him. But instead of Bishop begging Q to pull him up, like how the current ending is, in the original Bishop was choosing death. He heard the sirens and cops coming and his line was “I’m not going to jail.” or “I don’t wanna go to jail” because he doesn’t want to end up like his father, so he breaks the grip that Q has on him on purpose so that he can fall to his death. The studio didn’t like that Bishop was choosing death, thought it sent a bad message and scrapped it. The vid does not show the alternate ending, just has the screen writer talking about it.