 Fred Wolf (II) (qv) and David Spade (qv) originally wrote a skit  in the 90s for _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv) about a child  star rampage, spoofing _Silence of the Lambs (1989)_ (qv), for when  Macaulay Culkin (qv) was hosting, but it was cut. The idea was  later pitched for The WB, but they turned it down. It was eventually  totally rewritten and turned into this movie, originally written as  a dark comedy with more references to drug use by child stars.