7th May, 2025 13:00
Entertainment & Memorabilia, including Vintage Posters
The Marc Wolff Collection: The Killing Fields (1984) –
Original Production Script by Bruce Robinson, Enigma (First Casualty) Limited, dated 28th February 1983, with handwritten production code number 106 in blue ink to top of title-page, brad bound within red card covers, 121-pages on white sheets with single-page pink revision sheet, and the film’s title handwritten in black marker pen across the spine, 22 x 30cm; together with, a loosely inserted single-page main crew list with biographies of Director Roland Joffe, Writer Bruce Robinson on the reverse and a three paragraph piece titled From ‘Cambodia’ by British journalist and writer, Jon Swain, who is portrayed by Julian Sands in the film . . . ‘In spite of all our uneasiness . . . I think all of us who lived in the shadow of Cambodia’s unimaginable horror wanted this film to be made. For me, personally, The Killing Fields represents something which is of great importance’. The film received seven Oscar nominations and won eight Bafta Awards, including Best Film and Best Actor in a Leading role for Having S, Ngor.(2)
Provenance: The Collection of Marc Wolff, Award winning Aerial Unit Director/Stunt Pilot.
Marc Wolff has worked with Directors including, Stephen Spielberg, Ridley Scott, George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Ron Howard, Brian De Palma, J.J. Abrams, Oliver Stone, Steven Soderbergh, Wolfgang Petersen, Sam Mendes, Taylor Hackford, Mike Leigh, Michael Apted, Alejandro Inarritu, Mike Newell, Bryan Singer, Roger Spottiswoode, Tony Scott, Robert Zemeckis, Doug Liman, Christopher McQuarrie, Jan De Bont, Zack Snyder, Edward Zwick, Justin Lin, Jon Favreau, Matthew Vaughn, Guy Richie, David Yates, Dexter Fletcher and Martin Campbell, to name a few.
In 1990, Marc was the first person to fly a hot air balloon in Red Square, Moscow for Disney’s film, The Time Keeper, and during the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony, he flew the helicopter for the section flying along the River Thames, the pre-recorded sequence known as ‘Happy and Glorious’, flying straight through Tower Bridge, and piloted the helicopter the late Queen Elzabeth II appeared to parachute from above the Olympic Stadium.
Marc Wolff’s awards include, the BSC Award for 'Technical Excellence and Contribution to the Art of Aerial Cinematography', The International Moving Image Society Award for 'Services to the International Film Industry ‘, and the 1993 Award for Best Stunt for his work as aerial coordinator and stunt pilot in the film Cliffhanger, when his team transferred stunt man, Simon Crane, from the back of a DC9 airliner to the door of a Lockheed Jetstar business jet. The stunt performed near Durango, Colorado in November 1992 was a year in planning and cost one million dollars to rehearse and shoot.
Sold for £100
Condition Report
signs of wear to red card covers from use on the production, internally clean and bright.
The Marc Wolff Collection: The Killing Fields (1984) –
Original Production Script by Bruce Robinson, Enigma (First Casualty) Limited, dated 28th February 1983, with handwritten production code number 106 in blue ink to top of title-page, brad bound within red card covers, 121-pages on white sheets with single-page pink revision sheet, and the film’s title handwritten in black marker pen across the spine, 22 x 30cm; together with, a loosely inserted single-page main crew list with biographies of Director Roland Joffe, Writer Bruce Robinson on the reverse and a three paragraph piece titled From ‘Cambodia’ by British journalist and writer, Jon Swain, who is portrayed by Julian Sands in the film . . . ‘In spite of all our uneasiness . . . I think all of us who lived in the shadow of Cambodia’s unimaginable horror wanted this film to be made. For me, personally, The Killing Fields represents something which is of great importance’. The film received seven Oscar nominations and won eight Bafta Awards, including Best Film and Best Actor in a Leading role for Having S, Ngor.(2)
Provenance: The Collection of Marc Wolff, Award winning Aerial Unit Director/Stunt Pilot.
Marc Wolff has worked with Directors including, Stephen Spielberg, Ridley Scott, George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Ron Howard, Brian De Palma, J.J. Abrams, Oliver Stone, Steven Soderbergh, Wolfgang Petersen, Sam Mendes, Taylor Hackford, Mike Leigh, Michael Apted, Alejandro Inarritu, Mike Newell, Bryan Singer, Roger Spottiswoode, Tony Scott, Robert Zemeckis, Doug Liman, Christopher McQuarrie, Jan De Bont, Zack Snyder, Edward Zwick, Justin Lin, Jon Favreau, Matthew Vaughn, Guy Richie, David Yates, Dexter Fletcher and Martin Campbell, to name a few.
In 1990, Marc was the first person to fly a hot air balloon in Red Square, Moscow for Disney’s film, The Time Keeper, and during the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony, he flew the helicopter for the section flying along the River Thames, the pre-recorded sequence known as ‘Happy and Glorious’, flying straight through Tower Bridge, and piloted the helicopter the late Queen Elzabeth II appeared to parachute from above the Olympic Stadium.
Marc Wolff’s awards include, the BSC Award for 'Technical Excellence and Contribution to the Art of Aerial Cinematography', The International Moving Image Society Award for 'Services to the International Film Industry ‘, and the 1993 Award for Best Stunt for his work as aerial coordinator and stunt pilot in the film Cliffhanger, when his team transferred stunt man, Simon Crane, from the back of a DC9 airliner to the door of a Lockheed Jetstar business jet. The stunt performed near Durango, Colorado in November 1992 was a year in planning and cost one million dollars to rehearse and shoot.
