Mr. Fix-It (lost Phil Hartman script 1986)

Hey! Since it is the 20th anniversary of Phil Hartman’s tragic death, I decided to make a post about his lost script, Mr. Fix-It. From my research, he wrote it around 1986, when he was hired for Saturday Night Live, and finished a final draft in 1991. It was given to Robert Zemeckis, who loved it so much that he quickly signed on to produce it for MGM. The movie, as described by Hartman himself, was to be a horror comedy like Beetlejuice or Throw Mamma from the Train. It was to be about the lives of a family that lived near a toxic waste dump and would involve the father having his faced horrifically mutilated in an accident at the start of the movie. Despite the macabre subject matter, Hartman said that it was to have a “good message” and an “upbeat ending”. With the death of Phil Hartman in 1998, the project was cancelled and the script has never seen the light of day since.