A common way of writing films in Hollywood is what's known as spec scripts, where basically anyone can write a film and sell it to a movie studio. Having sold it however, this script is now the property of said studio, and it is up to them how much, if any, control the writer now has. Occasionally spec scripts will go on to become classics, as is the case with Thelma & Louise and American Beauty, but quite often they never get made at all. Unfortunately this was the case for a Joss Whedon's spec script called Suspension. It did earn Whedon $750,000 though, a rather substantial figure for spec scripts in general, and certainly not bad considering he was only 28 years old at the time. Back in 1993 it was sold to Largo Entertainment, a company who also gave cinema goers Timecop, G.I. Jane, and Finding Graceland, and producer Charles Gordon's name was also attached. Perhaps an obvious choice for a script which deals with terrorists hijacking a traffic jam on New York City's George Washington Bridge, as he had previously worked on both of the first two Die Hard films. Other than the premise though, outside of Whedon's recurring style there is very little else that could suggest what the film may have actually been like. Rather than just not being made and being left at that however, it also helped Whedon's career by allowing him to network with other film-makers. It is presumably this script which is responsible for his script doctoring on Waterworld just a couple of years later, seeing as it was another film produced by Gordon. Although there is no time limit on when a spec script can be made, there now seems to be less than no suspense left for those still wanting to see it. Largo's last film was made back in 1999, Pierce Brosnan's rather forgetful Grey Owl.
