sentences:  At the time, William Goldman's screenplay for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" had recently been purchased by 20th Century Fox.It was quickly decided that "The Wild Bunch", which had several similarities to Goldman's work, would be produced in order to beat "Butch Cassidy" to the theaters.By the fall of 1967, Peckinpah was rewriting the screenplay and preparing for production.