Towne came close to getting his green light when Bob Daly was named chairman of Warner Bros.
He had sketched out the rest of the screenplay and may even have written a rough draft of it that no one else had seen, but he was keeping the secret to himself - or at least until someone was willing to greenlight this expensive picture, which would require exceptional casting, real-life apes (or gifted mimics), a jungle shoot and aristocratic British settings. What would happen when he left the jungle for England? How many more pages would it take to reach the climax of the tale? He was known to write slowly, even laboriously, and Greystoke only followed its protagonist halfway through his story. But there were serious questions about his ability to finish the script.
No one had any doubts about Towne’s skill.
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