This is the person who has received a massive salary for revising numerous blockbuster Hollywood scripts before production.

The profession of script editing is popular in thriving film industries like Hollywood. They are individuals who review and edit potential scripts that producers are interested in but are not satisfied with the overall storyline.

Recently, the website Variety revealed the staggering salary of the most famous script editor in Hollywood, Scott Frank. According to the information, he was paid a weekly salary of $300,000 (approximately 7.2 billion VND) for this job.

Scott Frank started his career as a screenwriter in Hollywood and has been behind many acclaimed films such as The Queen’s Gambit, Get Shorty, Minority Report, and The Wolverine. Born in 1960, he has received two Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for the films Out of Sight and Logan. Additionally, Scott is also involved in producing various projects in Hollywood, both big and small.

He has been sought after by major film studios to edit and refine their promising projects on paper. According to Variety, Scott Frank has contributed to editing nearly 60 film scripts, including those for billion-dollar franchises like X-Men, The Ring, and The Hunger Games. He has also played a role in the success of acclaimed works such as Saving Private Ryan and Gravity.

Scott Frank was the one who suggested adding details about the relationship between the main character (played by Naomi Watts) and her son in The Ring. In Gravity, he was responsible for creating the life of the astronaut played by Sandra Bullock outside of the universe. In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the screenwriter created the character of the protagonist’s father (played by John Lithgow), a detail that led to the appearance of the chimpanzee Caesar.

The producer of The Hunger Games franchise, Nina Jacobson, once revealed that she had to turn to Scott Frank for help with the Catching Fire script just a few weeks before the first day of shooting. She shared, “His job is like a track builder while the train, which is the film, has already started running. He is like a troubleshooter, quickly diagnosing and providing solutions for film crews. Most producers think of Scott first when facing script issues.”