Editing The Parallax View (section)

===Development===
The film is based on a novel by [[Loren Singer]]. The novel followed witnesses of [[John F. Kennedy's assassination]] who were subsequently killed, but in the screenplay they see an assassination more like that of [[Robert F. Kennedy]].<ref name="slate">{{cite news|last=Kirshner|first=Jonathan|date=July 27, 2016|title=In the Dark|url=https://slate.com/culture/2017/07/alan-j-pakulas-film-the-parallax-view-constructs-a-labyrinth-of-overlapping-conspiracies.html|work=Slate|access-date=September 20, 2020|archive-date=October 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031124652/https://slate.com/culture/2017/07/alan-j-pakulas-film-the-parallax-view-constructs-a-labyrinth-of-overlapping-conspiracies.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Robert Towne]] did an [[Robert Towne|uncredited rewrite]] of the screenplay.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lefcourt |first1=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSEAvBhF0fIC&dq=Robert+Towne+Parallax+View&pg=PA108 |title=The First Time I Got Paid For It: Writers' Tales From The Hollywood Trenches |last2=Shapiro |first2=Laura |date=2009-02-18 |publisher=Hachette Books |isbn=978-0-7867-4522-7 |language=en |access-date=2022-07-29 |archive-date=2023-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121155933/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSEAvBhF0fIC&dq=Robert+Towne+Parallax+View&pg=PA108 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Gorge Dam (36251748603).jpg|thumb|The [[Skagit River Hydroelectric Project|Gorge Dam]] was used as a filming location{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}]]