Sentences with phrase «credited screenwriters did»

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

Not exact matches

I've rarely heard of a director attributing full credit for a film's virtues to a screenwriter, but that's what Friedkin was doing.

They discuss how much or how little the on - screen film credits can reflect the work a screenwriter actually does on a project, the complicated system of arbitration, and what it's like to both rewrite someone else's work and be rewritten yourself.

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.

And this is all the more satisfying because when you see a hefty team of screenwriters in the credits, in this case, Zack Stenz, Ashley Miller, Scott Alexander, and Larry Karaszweski, it usually doesn't bode well... Read More»

And some of that responsibility also falls to screenwriter Scott Derrickson, whose credits --» The Day The Earth Stood Still,» «Sinister «-- doesn't instill a lot of confidence.

So we're really rather glad that Frank Miller, otherwise known in the screenwriting world for the «Robocop» sequels and for gifting other screenwriters with comic book fodder in «Elektra,» «Sin City,» «300» and his gritty take on Batman, chose «The Spirit» as his solo directorial debut (he's credited as co-director with Robert Rodriguez on «Sin City» but we believe that even less now having seen what he did when left to his own devices).

Giving a great deal of credit to first - time screenwriter Jamie Linden, he does manage to find that silver lining by not concentrating on the game of football except as a means to heal wounds.

«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?

I was also once interested in this project because it was announced that screenwriter Diablo Cody was doing a draft of the script, but I don't see her name listed in the early credits, and the film doesn't look to have any of her signature touches.

The two credited screenwriters might disagree but I don't even know if they worked together on this silly script.

Although even here Howard and his screenwriters (only the father - son teams of Lawrence and Jake Kasdan are credited) can't resist making a call back all the way to a line in the original Star Wars, one which in a short sentence («We don't serve their kind here.»)

Forster doesn't get a lot of help with the plot, which constantly shifts tones and lacks cohesion due in no small part to the film's massive rewrites — four screenwriters (including Damon Lindelof, who botched last year's underwhelming Prometheus) are credited and you get a sense of the confusion.

Do we credit screenwriter Steven Zaillian («Schindler's List») or screenwriter Aaron Sorkin («The Social Network»)?

I'm grateful that Forster and the three credited screenwriters (Joe Carnahan's brother and «Lost» alumni Drew Goddard and Damon Lindelof) do something different than expected for a film of this scale.

A softer - touch movie would almost certainly have ducked the firebomb attack on Maison Mumbai, and whitewashed the racist graffiti — so let's give credit to socially - minded screenwriter Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Hummingbird) for ensuring that Hallstrom's doesn't.

It's no coincidence that this film features the same screenwriter, Kevin Williamson (Scream 2, The Faculty), who has been given far too much credit for doing an adequate job in Scream, but he shows he's vastly overrated with this tired, derivative film.

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.

And she didn't even pen this one — credit there goes to first - time screenwriter Andrea Seigel — which may explain why it almost never feels like a movie from the woman who built a winning comedy around a game of sexual chicken between two straight friends.

I don't know who deserves the credit; author Palmer, first - time screenwriters Hilary Galanoy and Elizabeth Hackett, or Jeffrey Hornaday, directing for just the second time in twenty years.

It's a bit of a mystery how screenwriter Justin Marks, whose two previous feature scripts were for a TV movie called Rewind and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun - Li, got the job and didn't even have to share credit with anyone else.

Nicole Perlman & Chris McCoy Joss Whedon and Shane Black aside, Marvel aren't known for hiring big - names screenwriters, but their picks for «Guardians of the Galaxy» are bold even by their standards, with two scribes who don't have a single produced credit between them.

His satirical - absurdist sensibilities are abundantly visible on You Don't Mess With The Zohan, where he's one of three credited screenwriters, and gloriously glimpsed in the «Dunkaccino» scene of Jack And Jill, a bad movie for which he is not a credited screenwriter, but does receive a songwriting credit on the fake Al Pacino - starring Dunkin' Donuts ad that is one of the movie's few flashes of demented inspiration.

And now here it is, Rules Don't Apply, and it's exceedingly uncomfortable, a film that leaves Beatty, acting here as co-star, director, producer, and credited screenwriter, exceptionally vulnerable.

To Southpaw's credit, Director Antoine Fuqua (The Equalizer) and Screenwriter Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy) don't spend the entire film chasing clichés and star Jake Gyllenhaal delivers such a strong performance that while it may at times be familiar, you'll remain engaged.