Just got back from reading the Companion script! Such a fun read, I love the way Drew Hancock writes.
Here are some fun differences/details I noticed in the script:
•Iris and Josh’s meet cute involves a coffee bean dispenser instead of the oranges. Iris uses the dispenser but can’t get it to shut off, it keeps spilling coffee beans everywhere. Josh comes up and tries to mansplain it and help her but he ends up breaking off the knob to turn it off. They end up falling to the floor together and cheesily looking into each other’s eyes while coffee beans are falling everywhere. And we get flashes of a cliche romance between them (script describes walks on the beach, dancing on the rooftop, making love under satin white sheets).
•At the end of the grocery store meet cute scene, Iris’s line “The first was the day I met Josh. And the second…the day I killed him” is notably different in the script. It’s “The day he killed me” instead. Interesting! I guess they originally weren’t planning on spoiling Josh’s death at the beginning. And Josh did technically “kill” Iris when he made her shoot herself, so I’m guessing that’s what the line is referring to. I’m glad they changed it in the final product though, it’s pretty obvious Josh is not going to make it out of this movie alive and I like the clever nod to that at the beginning.
•Sergey’s house is described as “Frank Lloyd Wright on coke” which, as someone who lives close to one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s absolutely insane houses, I thought was funny.
•They all smoke a lot of weed.
•Josh and Iris are a lot more horny in the script. During the dancing scene Iris straight up starts groping him and grinding on him and their “eyes are filled with lust.” And in the scene right afterwards they are described as “fucking like rabbits” across “the entire room” including the bureau, the floor, and the walls. They also “break a lamp or two.” I’m actually glad this was changed, I think it makes more sense for the characters and for the movie’s themes for Iris and Josh’s sex life to be lacking this kind of passion. It’s more transactional and lackluster in the final product, he’s using her. Also nothing beats the shock and trauma of cutting straight to Josh’s orgasm face.
•In the scene where Empathix first brings Iris to Josh’s apartment to set her up, Josh says that his ex-girlfriend was named Iris, and he named his companion bot after her. Which is all kinds of fucked up and just goes to show how insecure Josh is.
•Josh is somehow even more of an asshole in the script. When he reveals to Iris that she’s a robot, he says that he bought her “used” and expresses jealousy and disgust at the thought of the “things [she’s] done with other men.”
•While Josh and Kat are walking through the woods looking for Iris, Kat asks Josh if Companions are unable to fake orgasms because they can’t lie. Josh basically confirms that and looks silent and sheepish. Kat can see what’s going on and makes fun of him for never being able to make his robot girlfriend come. RIP Kat you are missed.
•Patrick is kind of the one to accidentally kill Eli. Patrick and Iris and wrestling with the gun and it goes off, shooting Eli, who was standing off to the side. So sad. Patrick tries to kill Iris in revenge but he can’t because of his programming preventing him from causing harm.
•There’s a Patrick and Eli sex scene where Eli accidentally says “I can’t believe I’m fucking a robot” or something like that and that’s how Patrick found out he’s a robot.
•When Josh establishes a love link with Patrick, they have the same meet cute in the grocery store as Iris and Josh. And there are also flashes of “walking on the beach, dancing on rooftops, making love under satin white sheets” with Josh and Patrick, which I think would have been funny.
•At the end of the movie, after Iris kills Josh, Teddy the Empathix guy sticks around and asks her if she wants to sever her love link with Josh. She says no because she wants to remember what being in love felt like. Ouch.
•Before she leaves the house with the money, Iris goes to put on her own clothes, but realizes they are “feminine, flowery, dainty” clothes that Josh picked out for her. Instead, she goes for Kat’s clothes (a leather jacket, jeans, vintage tee, sunglasses) which are much more “her style.” I love this.
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