Sentences with phrase «as a screenwriter»

In fact he had to work as a screenwriter as well to make ends meet.

Interestingly, he has only made three feature films in the past two decades, but he has participated in numerous films as a screenwriter and film editor.

It's a shame that, in his role as screenwriter, he has to rely so heavily on the often tried and almost - as - often tired formula of this genre.

Do you have a preference for one or the other, and do you intend to continue as a screenwriter?

I'd like to add something I learned as a screenwriter before writing books.

So there's a real humility there, and at the same time incredible confidence and originality as a screenwriter.

Some coverage was indeed far too focused on the sense of conflict, which is not surprising given that — as my screenwriter friends always say — conflict is story.

This is middlebrow Pacino, heartwarming but not especially emotional, written and directed by Dan Fogelman in his debut as a director — though Fogelman is well known as a screenwriter for such works as «Crazy Stupid Love,» also starring a middle - aged man, but that one trying to recover from his wife's asking for a divorce by picking up girls in bars.

Though most of the cast returns, as well as the screenwriters of the first film, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, with Ryan Reynolds also snagging a writing credit, Deadpool 2 recruited David Leitch (one half of John Wick's directorial team) to replace Tim Miller, and the change works.

With Paul Greengrass currently taking a break from the series, helming duties for Legacy have fallen the way of Tony Gilroy, who worked as a screenwriter on the previous Bourne films, and made his directorial debut with the excellent Michael Clayton in 2007.

It's that conventionality that others find fault with, as Variety claims «the vitality seems to have been largely drained from this rote retelling,» while The Guardian blames Newell as well as screenwriter David Nicholls, noting, «It takes a special type of talent to turn Great Expectations into a film quite this flat.»

James Vanderbilt has been primarily known as a screenwriter for many years, having written everything from superhero movies (THE AMAZING SPIDER - MAN), to serial killer thrillers (ZODIAC), to action - adventures (WHITE HOUSE DOWN).

79, has rubbed elbows with some of the biggest names in Hollywood over his 20 - year career as a screenwriter and producer, but he has never forgotten where he comes from.

While on the indie side of things, lo - fi horror auteur Ti West is back with «The Sacrament,» Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan do the indie romantic comedy thing with «The F Word,» and Joel Edgerton makes his debut as a screenwriter with «Felony,» also starring Tom Wilkinson.

These letters form the basis of «Trumbo,» a documentary about the writer's life based on the play «Trumbo» by his son Christopher and featuring powerful staged readings of the letters by such performers as Brian Dennehy, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, and Michael Douglas — whose father, Kirk, interviewed in the film, helped break the blacklist in 1960 by insisting that Trumbo be credited as the screenwriter for «Spartacus.»

She immigrated to the U.S. in 1926 after graduating from the University of Petrograd and worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

Last year it was revealed that Canadian comedian Aaron Berg will serve as the screenwriter for the Borderlands movie.

In 1998, Condon debuted as a screenwriter in Gods and Monsters, which won him his first Academy Award.

This increase in popularity could be associated with the influence of well - known Noras such as screenwriter Nora Ephron and popular singer Norah Jones.

For one, most of them double as screenwriters who produce their own original material.

It's no surprise that début film director Alex Garland made his chops for years as a screenwriter — his script for Ex Machina is one of the best sci - fi scripts in years.

With Steve Kloves (Wonder Boys, The Fabulous Baker Boys) returning as the screenwriter after skipping the last film, the more serious tone is interspersed with the lighter moments of teen romance, though these soap opera antics may seem tedious to those who don't care much about the dalliances of the Hogwarts students, particularly in how much screen time is given to it in place of the larger storyline that could have used a greater sense of build up.

He's listed as the screenwriter for the Halo (Xbox Video Game) film adaptation.

While five male writers were originally credited as screenwriters at SXSW, the WGA has since confirmed that Brian Kehoe and Jim Kehoe are the ones that wrote the screenplay.

As a screenwriter first and foremost (and a director with little to no innate visual sense), I tend to prize narrative and story over most other elements in film.

Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, who also double as screenwriters, play geeky British tourists who rent an RV and scout out UFO landmarks in Nevada.

Ridley has a good deal of experience as a screenwriter, having worked on the Barbershop TV series and The Wanda Sykes Show, in addition to having scripted such films as Red Tails, 12 Years a Slave (which snagged him an Oscar), and the upcoming Ben - Hur re-telling; on the directorial side, though, Ridley hasn't served as the helmsman on a feature since the crime drama Cold Around the Heart (which he also wrote), back in 1997.

Rowling was set as the screenwriter of this brand new prequel franchise, and we'd be getting a new series of films set in the Wizarding World that A. Don't try to reboot or rework the brilliant Harry Potter saga and B. Offer new insights into characters we only heard about in the original series.

Warner Brothers certainly must have thought he's got some level of skill as a screenwriter, considering that they scooped this up before Gosling even began shooting.

It helps that Damien Chazelle, who wrote JK Simmons to an Academy Award for his sublime work on Whiplash, onboarded the project as a screenwriter after Campbell and Stuecken sequestered the monstrous DNA of their story into its malevolent form, lending his whip - smart sensibilities and clever eye for situational tension in spades.

Unfortunately, most of those films are long in the past, and in the interim, Besson has spent most of his time as a screenwriter, and not a particularly good one, for such lackluster films as Kiss of the Dragon, The Transporter and its first sequel, as well as Taken and its sequel.

In other news, the film's co-scribe Michael Goldenberg (Contact, Harry Potter) has been hired as screenwriter for Green Lantern 2.

He's got a nice eye for visuals but whenever I see his name attached as a screenwriter, my expectations sink.

The 2011 hit comedy is returning as screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have closed the deal to create HORRIBLE BOSSES 2.

IMAGINE will see Dan Fogelman taking on double duty as screenwriter and director, and will be his directorial debut.

Garland's work as a screenwriter includes «Dredd,» «Sunshine,» «28 Days Later...» and, significantly, «Never Let Me Go.»

Even the pair's first feature as screenwriters,

At the end of the 30s, he settled down in Hollywood, making a living as a screenwriter for hire.

News from the Star Wars universe had fans nervous, as screenwriter Michael Arndt left his Episode VII draft to be rewritten by director JJ Abrams and Star Wars veteran Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote 1980's The...

Fogelman's busy track record as a screenwriter on the likes of Cars 2, Bolt, The Guilt Trip, Tangled, Last Vegas and Crazy, Stupid, Love bespeaks both glib proficiency and a pronounced urge to please rather than to leave the main road to find what lies beyond.

Bale gives a haunted performance as a screenwriter named Rick, who represents the Knight of Cups, a romantic adventurer.

They were just announced as the screenwriters for the Micronauts film that Hasbro is developing with J.J. Abrams, and now the two are officially in the Zombieland fold once more.

Seeking escape, she visits her estranged sisters, but finds Helen (Ally Sheedy) suffering from her own self - inflated celebrity, after moderate success as a screenwriter; and Trish (Alison Janney) buckling under the strain of single - motherhood.

Making it in Hollywood as a screenwriter can be a tricky business, especially if you're primarily focus is on the horror...

So skilled are Joel and Ethan Coen as screenwriters that their additions feel so naturally integrated to the story, it is almost a surprise when you turn to the page and find them missing.