Sentences with phrase «as screenwriter»

Wiki] In fact, there are famous people who've openly talked about feeling like a fraud before, such as screenwriter Chuck Lorre, comedian Tina Fey, actress Emma Watson, and even veteran actress Meryl Streep and best - selling author Maya Angelou!

Recently, he has also worked as a screenwriter for a full - length feature documentary, Project Cancer, Ulay's journal from November to November.

Recently, Israel made his first foray into movie - making with Baywatch co-creator Michael Berk as screenwriter, resulting in a feature - length film SPF 18, which will premier later this year.

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

In order for this formula to work, all three elements of world - building, character development, and gameplay have to mesh as surely as a screenwriter, a director, and actors in a perfect movie.

-- Joss Whedon replaced by Christina Hodson as screenwriter for Batgirl — God of War giveaway winner announced!

[4] He then headed to Hollywood to seek work as a screenwriter; there he wrote screenplays and worked as a waiter, but success as a screenwriter eluded him.

He started as a screenwriter and majored in film at college.

This began with published romance novels, then my stint as a screenwriter, and now my epic (seriously long!)

Screenwriter Ashley Scott Meyers (@AshleyMeyers) discusses the critical writing lesson he learned over time, what it takes to make a living as a screenwriter, and what it felt like the first time one of his scripts was produced

(As a screenwriter, I certainly depend on thorough, reliable feedback through multiple drafts of my material.)

I've had a modestly successful career as a screenwriter & director, but as the film business changed, dramatically, 6 years ago, I knew it was time to return to my roots and write novels.

This is why I as a screenwriter decided to concentrate more on short films.

... At twenty - three, Ruth Saunders left her childhood home in Massachusetts and headed west with her seventy - year - old grandma in tow, hoping to make it as a screenwriter.

«All Our Wrong Todays» is my first novel, but I've been working for the past 15 years as a screenwriter.

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

He has also worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and Michael Douglas Productions.

As a screenwriter, he wrote for Disney, Fox and Nickelodeon.

He then trained as a screenwriter at the German Film and Television Academy and after many years writing screenplays and plays, Robert Lohr decided to try his hand at a novel.

New Jersey native Bill Mesce, Jr. is an author of fiction and non-fiction, as well as a screenwriter and playwright.

Before writing American Dervish, I worked as a screenwriter and playwright, and most of my work has dealt with Muslim - American identity, the unique challenges of identifying oneself (or being identified by others) primarily by a religious faith and, in Islam's case, by a faith that has often seen itself (and been seen by others) as «opposed» to the West.

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

Successful enough as a screenwriter?

As a professional, she wasn't much better: She was fired from Vanity Fair; her contract to write a novel for Viking Press was the longest unfulfilled contract on the company's books (she never wrote a novel) and her days as a screenwriter were turbulent to say the least.

D.B. Weiss didn't get around to finishing his second novel, as he was distracted by his work as screenwriter, producer, and sometimes director for HBO's smash hit Game of Thrones.

I don't know if Aline Brosh McKenna as a screenwriter is a good or a bad sign... I think she did a great job in writing The Devil Wears Prada... The rest were bleh...

Frank clinched his reputation as a screenwriter with his witty adaptations of the Elmore Leonard novels «Get Shorty» (1995) and «Out of Sight» (1999).

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

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.

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.

Christopher Nolan's brother Jonathan was also taken on as a screenwriter, having previously written for «The Prestige» (2006).

The director, as well as screenwriter Frank Deasy, editor James Lyons, and production designer Clay A. Griffith deconstruct the finished film and examine everything from framing and angles to the film's color palette.

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.»

The younger Joffe is primarily known as a screenwriter, having worked within the British film industry since Last Resort in 2000.

First a reporter, he cut his teeth as a screenwriter in Berlin, notably collaborating on the screenplay for famous neo-realist precursor «People on Sunday.»

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.

As a novelist Alex Garland gave us the intriguing The Beach, while in his role as a screenwriter he's brought us 28 Days Later, Sunshine and the adaptation of Never Let Me Go.

«Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire» marks Martini's first feature film as screenwriter, producer and composer.

To cut right down to the chase, Impostor is a space age version of The Fugitive (which is no surprise as screenwriter David Twohy (Pitch Black, Waterworld) worked on both screenplays), with Sinise as Dr. Kimball out to save his own ass in a world out to get him.

The film's director, J.J. Abrams, was recently confirmed as a screenwriter on the project, in addition to Lawrence Kasdan.

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.

Wilson (Scoot McNairy) is a late - twenties recent import to L.A. who hopes to make it big as a screenwriter, but whose laptop containing his script was recently stolen.

Heather Graham's debut as both a screenwriter and a director is a mishmash of romantic comedy, buddy movie, and feminist ideas about empowerment in relationships, through sex, and at work — with the suggestion that there's some magic at play in achieving those goals.

«I think I was able to do that from my experience as a screenwriter.

As a screenwriter, Colin has written for Dreamworks, Sony, Paramount, Disney and Warner Bros..

With Gary Whitta having departed the first Star Wars standalone film, and with Simon Kinberg passing on the job, The Hollywood Reporter are reporting that Chris Weitz has signed on as screenwriter.

John Horn, the former Los Angeles Times film writer, moderated a Q&A session with actor Ben Mendelsohn (who plays King George XI) as well as screenwriter Anthony McCarten and producer Lisa Bruce (Oscar nominees for «The Theory of Everything»).

Sorkin, a playwright as well as a screenwriter, organizes «Steve Jobs» as a three - act backstage drama, beginning in 1984.

Actor Taylor Sheridan certainly came bolting out of the gate as a screenwriter, with his scripts for 2015's Sicario and last year's Hell or High Water displaying a firm grasp of pulp storytelling dynamics and an eagerness to explore the darker aspects of the human condition.

«The Girl Who Played With Fire» may not release in fall 2013 as screenwriter Steven Zaillian revises the screenplay.