Aaron Sorkin Goes Off Script: Fears, the Critics and His Private Battles Behind 'Molly's Game' | Hollywood Reporter

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At this point, the industry's highest-paid screenwriter, who earns $4 million a script (and another $1 million if the film gets made), could make a fine living by simply rehashing his past successes. He already has agreed to tackle a live staging of his first breakout, A Few Good Men, for NBC, though now he reveals he'll need to push back its planned spring 2018 airdate another year. It was a phone call from Carrie Fisher, then a virtual stranger, who made him consider the alternative: "I know you think you're not going to be able to write," he remembers Fisher telling him, "but I promise your writing is going to get better."
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