A few years later, in what seems to be his last appearance on the record in print, again in Fangoria, St. John says of his process: You can���t think about that while you���re writing it; you must remain true to what���s in front of you. You have to build a world and inhabit it with the people that you need to do it with, and you must keep it true to itself���. We take characters to their emotional and logical extremes. We push them to the edge, and that���s what you need to do. That���s what I think our films do ��� we really get out there with them, put them in a situation and turn the screws on them��� I don���t want to talk for Abel, but I firmly believe that the films we���ve done together take place in a moral universe, and I think he does too��� I don���t think fashionable amorality is going to get us anywhere. It���s a disaster, and I hope we can catch ourselves before it does real damage.

To this day Nicholas St. John gives no interviews on his career, one of the most consistent and distinguished of genre screenwriters. There is no comment on what made him run away from such promise, which encounters with dishonesty motivated him to flee even the fringes of the industry. In this light, that Dangerous Game is his last script written specifically for Abel ��� both The Addiction and The Funeral, filmed later, were from scripts completed around the same time as King of New York ��� speaks volumes above any such personal insights. 

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