Editing Roller Boogie (section)

===Development===
''Roller Boogie'' was written by Barry Schneider with [[Irwin Yablans]], who is credited with creating the story. Yablans' Compass International Pictures, founded with Joseph Wolfe, would distribute the movie. Compass International Pictures had unprecedented success the previous year with [[John Carpenter]]'s slasher ''[[Halloween (1978 film)|Halloween]]''. In between ''Halloween'' and ''Roller Boogie'', the company would distribute three other titles, ''[[Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula|Nocturna]]'', ''Fyre'' and ''[[Tourist Trap (film)|Tourist Trap]]'', the latter the most successful of the three; Blair would go on to appear in Compass International Pictures' final film, the slasher ''[[Hell Night]]'' (1981).

In an earlier version of the script, Bobby James' primary interest was songwriting. In the movie, Bobby and friends were trying to write a new song by humming into a tape recorder. Once he meets Terry, she assists him in scoring it using her musical abilities. By the film's ending, Terry leaves for her music scholarship whilst Bobby pursues his musical career. There is no mention of the Olympics in the earlier version. Another scene that does not feature in the movie that was present in the script comes where Bobby helps Terry escape from her bedroom after she is grounded by her parents. However, this scene was shot since there are photos in various publicity items with Jim Bray peeking through a window on a ladder.