Sentences with phrase «credited screenwriters»

The movie reunites Butler with Christian Gudegast, who was among the phalanx of credited screenwriters on London Has Fallen and now makes his directorial debut.

The three credited screenwriters didn't need either the explorers or the soldiers.

«With several credited screenwriters on the final product, director Nikolaj Arcel's movie looks and feels like a series of cautious, nervous compromises and expository panics... Is the movie good enough to do what it's designed to do?

Credit screenwriter Steve Kloves, who wrote every script but that of Order of the Phoenix, with judicious pruning and a knowledge of the epic's internal pressure points, and the technical crew headed by production designer Stuart Craig for visualizing the landscape of Hogwarts and beyond with such lavish, meticulous creativity.

These issues are probably ones that challenged Steve Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness, The Weather Man), the lone credited screenwriter, and the many others before him who tried to update James Thurber's 1939 short story for modern times.

Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, two of the three credited screenwriters for the Oscar - winning adapted screenplay for The Descendants, not only collaborate yet again for the script of this original poignant coming - of - age dramedy, but also direct for the first time, as well as also give themselves small supporting roles as waterpark employees Roddy and Lewis, respectively.

Kershner repeats many a statement from the commentary, while credited screenwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr., simultaneously the logical and illogical choice as the author of the King Kong and Flash Gordon reboots, explains that no love was lost when he was dismissed from the project.

Whether that's straight from the source material or an adjustment by credited screenwriters Simon Beaufoy and Michael deBruyn (aka Michael Arndt), it's a noticeable improvement.

He eventually left the FBI over «mismanagement,» but, assisted on the script with credited screenwriter and director Daniel Ragussis, so authenticity shouldn't be an issue for this new Daniel Radcliffe movie.

Keep an eye on the screenplay category: Wilson died in 2005, but he'll be the only credited screenwriter, even though fellow playwright Tony Kushner has since worked on the screen adaptation.

Credit screenwriters Caroline Thompson and Larry Wilson, for taking the characters from the TV show and actually making a workable story to follow, rather than be a semi-parody or rehash just for the sake of an easy cash - in.

by Walter Chaw Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (hereafter Madagascar 3) is easily the best one yet and the product, I'll bet, of co-directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath's foray into the rigors of gag - writing for an animated TV series («The Penguins of Madagascar»)-- though I wouldn't discount the influence of credited screenwriter Noah Baumbach, either.

A screenplay, adapted or original, which has four or more credited screenwriters.

Steven S. DeKnight, directing his first feature after executive producing Spartacus and Daredevil, and his three additional credited screenwriters have inelegantly crammed the necessary backstory into an artless opening montage.

And none of the four credited screenwriters worked on the previous film, a telltale sign for the co-opting of creativity for hopeful commerce.

Its sole credited screenwriter is Dale Launer, who also had writing credits on the similarly intricately plotted «Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,» and «My Cousin Vinny.»

Both brilliant and dumb, both impressive and disappointing, credit screenwriters Emmerich (Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow) and Devlin for having wonderful ideas despite the lack of talent to follow through with the execution.

While Meyers and credited screenwriters Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa deserve a fair amount of thanks for that, most of it goes to the cast.

There are six credited screenwriters which results in one big mess of a movie.

Credited screenwriters Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O'Brien worked on the Neighbors series, but they also crib from Wedding Crashers to the extent that the Stangles refer to the movie, and a specific plot point, directly.

Seven credited screenwriters polish a story only parents can appreciate, though most moms and dads will miss half the movie because they'll be explaining jokes and themes to their befuddled youngsters.

Credited screenwriters Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller cobbled together various bits of the Robin Hood legend into something of a plot, but it's really just a collection of nifty set - pieces.

Discredit goes to the three waves of credited screenwriters — Jeff Pinkner, Oscar - winning wordsmith Akiva Goldsman and Oscar - nominated veteran Susannah Grant.

The four credited screenwriters do a bad job with everything except the one - liners; they do some of those quite well.

Credit screenwriter Steve Barancik, who has written a multi-layered story so intricate it reminds me of Robert Towne's award - winning screenplay for «Chinatown.»

The lone credited screenwriter is John Logan, which I find astonishing.

Belgian artist Peyo created The Smurfs using a pseudonym and the five credited screenwriters for the little blue characters» second big - screen adventure probably wish that they could have done the same.

He wrote this film with two other credited screenwriters, Gabriel Dowrick and Steven Elder, and while the dialogue isn't exactly Mametian — or Schwarzeneggerian, for that matter — he makes himself a noble hero and keeps the emoting mostly within his limited range.

Credit screenwriter Simon Beaufoy («Slumdog Millionaire») and the directors for providing as much balancing as was possible.

Spielberg — along with the screenwriter Zak Penn («X-Men: The Last Stand,» «Last Action Hero») and Cline (who is also a credited screenwriter)-- creates an event film that has to be seen on a big screen to be fully appreciated.

Boasting no less than five credited screenwriters, the film is like an exquisite - corpse exercise in kiddie - movie plotting.

Maybe the fact that Peyton's latest has four credited screenwriters should've been a clue, but brisk is hardly the word for Rampage.

Director Marc Forster and the three credited screenwriters — Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof — should, of course, also gets kudos.

Apparently none of the four credited screenwriters could come up with much besides Pitt going here and running from zombies and there and running from zombies and somewhere else and running from zombies.

It may also be that United Nations superspy Gerry Lane, Pitt's character here, has had every possible smidgen of personality sanded away by the five credited screenwriters of «World War Z» (and God knows how many others behind the scenes) in the interests of «protecting the star,» as they say in the trade.

The movie has four credited screenwriters.)

The authors (there are four credited screenwriters) have pared down Victor Hugo's great wallow of a novel to its dumb, pious moral (Christian forgiveness always wins, though you might not live to break out the Champagne), but the show has been audience - tested for decades and defiantly holds the screen, much like its French revolutionaries at the barricades.

Even the screenwriters get blasted in most of the reviews posted online, similarly to TheWrap's film critic Andy Klein «s review, who said «the four credited screenwriters — the returning Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt, plus Christian Gudegast («A Man Apart») and Chad St. John — make things move fast enough to keep you awake, but not fast enough to finesse its plot absurdities past an alert viewer's mind.»

«It was all on the page from the beginning,» she said, crediting screenwriter - producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

Eric Pearson, Chris Kyle, and Christopher L. Yost are the credited screenwriters, but the Kiwi filmmaker and performer who made Boy, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and the hilarious vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows (in which he also starred) is the dominant force behind this singular entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Like Iron Man's Tony Stark, Hal is meant to be a charming wit; unlike him, he has been provided no witty lines by the long list of (unwisely) credited screenwriters.

Watts, who is also one of six credited screenwriters, does his part to ensure that this Spider - Man doesn't feel like a retread of either the Raimi / Tobey Maguire trilogy or the Marc Webb / Andrew Garfield pair.

The movie, which has five credited screenwriters, gets the mayhem right, but never quite nails that timing.

JT: Stacey Miller is the credited screenwriter, but four people share story credit, which is rare for a film based on a true story and / or book.

Stiller is among the four credited screenwriters, including his Tropic Thunder co-writer Justin Theroux.

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the filmmakers behind Half Nelson and Mississippi Grind, are directing Captain Marvel, while the credited screenwriters include Meg LeFauve (Inside Out), Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy), Geneva Robertson - Dworet (Tomb Raider), Liz Flahive & Carly Mensch (GLOW), and Boden and Fleck.

This year, both Birdman and Unbroken have FOUR credited screenwriters.

Where «Cloverfield Lane» really shows its commercial, straightforward storytelling origins is in its patchwork script (there are three credited screenwriters, two of whom worked together on the original draft).

Akiva Goldsman is one of the credited screenwriters, and his usual penchant for over-explaining everything is here, but he and his fellow writers still can't make sense of the truncated plot or find reasons for any of this stuff.