Sentences with phrase «early scripts for»

An early script for Deadpool 2 cast the Merc with a Mouth as a father before cooler heads prevailed.

He eventually dropped off to make 2012, but before doing so he went on to explain that James Cameron had sent him his early script for Fantastic Voyage and he hated it.

Not exact matches

In the early days of writing the script, Johnson said he had a particular image in his head that shockingly brought the light and dark side of the force together for a fleeting moment.

That's a large commitment from Facebook, especially considering that it was reported to pay $ 250,000 for half - hour, scripted shows (and $ 10,000 to $ 35,000 for short - form programming) when it signed deals with digital outlets like Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, and Group Nine Media earlier this year for online programming to fill Facebook Watch.

Though Fox has not officially announced a sequel to «Deadpool,» the film's screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick told Entertainment Weekly they are in the early stages of a script for a second film.

Yes, James Cameron, who holds box - office records for not one, but two of the highest - grossing films of all time, took time out of making the next three «Avatar» sequels to read over an early «Deadpool» script.

The SRC had earlier called for the school's Independent Examinations Board, which conducted the exams and was responsible for the marking of the scripts, to be scrapped, describing it as a threat to legal education in Ghana, after only 91 of the over 500 students passed the exams.

Flanagan, post-leaders meeting, stuck to his script as he had earlier in the day: The Senate was still pushing for income and residency verification in rent controlled units, provisions that Democrats have rejected.

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So if this Challenge were a Hollywood script, then I would have been ditched by Henley Boy at the start, embarked on my crazy 30 Dates challenge, only to fall for the Enigma early on....

This cinematically juvenile approach wouldn't be such a problem if Megamind didn't also have much in common with the aforementioned Despicable Me (which emerged earlier this year as a startlingly original property); but since I'm feeling rather generous today, not even those similarities would necessarily damn Megamind either but for the fact that Despicable did it all — visuals, voicing, and script — far better in terms of the super-villain turned antihero.

Early Man has beguiling hints of Gladiator and Bend It Like Beckham; sometimes it feels like a script Paul Laverty might have written for Ken Loach.

Game - play wise the DLC plays straightforward lacking customization and different ways to handle situations playing more like a handheld tutorial for most of the game, treating you as though you were too stupid to learn the basics of combat from the base game or earlier titles, However this could all be related to getting the player to use the new hacking feature in which you can now use situational hazards to stun enemies, however the concept falls shorts as most encounters when you will need to use hacking are scripted and would be more efficient in those that are not if you made use of your already acquired skills from the base game.Overall the DLC like the game is visually impressive and combat still flows well but you cant help but feel as though you have been cheated yet again.

It's early yet for this kind of declaration, but what the hell: Co-screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who also wrote last month's indisputably awful Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, just may have scripted both the summer's high point and its ditch - dead bottom.

(Among the homemade scripts visible early on is one for The Fighter, a movie that they purportedly don't see until rather later in the film.)

As director Zack Snyder and screenwriter David S. Goyer continue to fine tune the script and prep for an early 2014 shoot on Batman vs. Superman, various departments are starting to make arrangements for filming to begin.

Consider the moment where Noble explains to us halfwits who Athena is to diagnose exactly how early the script is in its development and how no one cared enough to go back to the typewriter for one more pass.

It boasts a superb script from Dan Fogelman, who improves on the promise of earlier scripts such as «Cars,» «Bolt,» «Tangled» and «Crazy, Stupid, Love» in delivering a journey of self - discovery for its protagonist and, indeed, those around him.

But curiously, Whannell (who scripted both prior «Insidious» films, as well as the Wan - directed «Saw» and «Dead Silence») sidelines those amiable folks for much of «Chapter 3,» which takes place «a few years» before the events of the earlier films.

Callaham has written for many interesting projects, including a film named Barrow, which eventually became The Expendables, and an early draft of the rebooted 2014 Godzilla script.

JP: I think he had gotten script early on as Ryan was looking for a director.

They had talked on Skype months earlier, and now they were both at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, promoting movies, and Gerwig came to Ronan's hotel room for a proper script read - through.

Nicholson and Lange fans will enjoy their performances enough to forgive the lackadaisical nature of some scenes, and those looking for early Mamet scripted flicks might want to give this well - written adaptation a shot.

James Ivory should be bowing down to Luca every day for putting that script into shape (have you read the early drafts?).

What's interesting is, earlier this month, star Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in the franchise, stated that there are currently three Star Trek scripts behind developed, one by Simon Pegg and Doug Jung, one by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) for Quentin Tarantino, and another from an unspecified «set of writers,» which seems to be Payne and McKay.

Anderson met Mann a couple of years earlier, as her husband Michael Penn was writing the score for Hard Eight, and sent her the script to encourage her to write specifically for Magnolia.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earliFor all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlifor spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

It's one of several self - reflexive winks in Budreau's script, though he drops most of the I'm Not There-esque refractions early on, opting for a straightforward, largely fictional drama about a man at a crossroads, forced to pick between love and addiction.

The script, which is credited to Simon Beaufoy, compresses her biography even further: It places King's mock - rivalry with Riggs side - by - side with her public fight for pay equality in the early»70s and her private coming to terms with her sexuality in the late»60s.

John Ridley's script is tedious as our leading character searches for redemption, revenge and then forgiveness; 8 years earlier, 3 years later, 2 years later, there is a lot of jumping around.

Early last year, it was revealed that The CW was developing a reboot of Tales from the Darkside from Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Joe Hill, and while the series never materialised, IDW Publishing announced a four - issue comic book series based upon scripts Hill produced for the aborted show.

Earlier Wong Kar - wai led Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen and the script consultant Chang Ta Chun to a Beijing cinema for an audience appreciation.

While what he said earlier this year led people to believe there was another trilogy in the works, the director spoke only of the follow up to Covenant this time, saying that «I'll probably be filming it within a year,», and revealing that John Logan had already given him a script for a direct sequel Scott plans to shoot after he finishes All the Money In The World and The Cartel.

Somewhere in Knock Knock there is a good film but it all goes missing very early on with bad acting, a sloppy script, and two attractive leads trying way too hard to be sexy for no reason at all.

Though as early as 1996 she was reportedly at work on a film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt, later adapted by Todd Haynes into 2015's Carol, Macdonald has worked exclusively in television ever since, and has been back in view lately for directing the acclaimed new miniseries adaptation of Howards End, scripted by Kenneth Lonergan.

In fact, an earlier script draft co-written for the project by Roberto Orci - who was in line to direct the film before Lin was hired - was dropped because it was, as Pegg put it, «too Star Trek - y» for Paramount studio heads.

If you told me an earlier draft of the script portrayed pugilist hero Billy Hope as a gifted violinist who puts down the fiddle and steps into the ring to pay for an operation for his blind kid sister, I wouldn't be surprised.

He agreed to purchase the rights for Bong, who started writing the early drafts of the script and enlisting American playwright and screenwriter Kelly Masterson (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) to work on the English dialogue.

The film has been in development for some time and has seen numerous changes but, according to Deadline, it will now finally go ahead with Burr Steers directing from a script he has re-written based on an earlier draft from David O. Russell.

Note Nelson's early remark that he wanted to write a script with a smart teenage girl as the «protagonist,» citing Buffy the Vampire Slayer herself as an exemplar: sorta deciphers that Rorschach blot for you, doesn't it?

The script for the 1980s - set Beirut, which follows a former U.S. diplomat (Hamm) as he gets pulled back to Lebanon by shady intelligence officials to handle a tense hostage situation, was actually written in the early»90s and sat on the shelf for ages.

It is possible that once the film turns from out and out farce into more of a core relationship film that it might falter just a tad, but the script sets up their relationship so well and so unconventionally (it lovingly refuses to give in to the storybook ending), and Lemmon and MacLaine are so good at playing their parts that to me the momentum never falters (take, for example, the way MacLaine mimes the number three the same way Lemmon does after she sees him do it earlier; it's the little things).

The script's lulls rarely go on for a full minute, a good example being when Hill interrupts a soccer game to tell Michael Cera their plans for the evening (and setting the present action limits for the film) and Hill calls a bothersome soccer player (Cera's in the middle of a game) a bed - wetter, recalling a bladder incident from eight years earlier.

This is probably too early to tell, but from the trailer, it doesn't seem like it will have a Metal Gear - level story, and the information that the new script was written in just 2 months (as opposed to the 10 for the original script) doesn't help.

Working from a script he and four fellow writers originally conceived for the stage, Plotnick establishes a tone of seriocomic soap - operatics in the early scenes while introducing the diversely dysfunctional crew of the Omega 76 Space Station.

And the dialogue itself — the thing Crowe made his name on in his great, early films «Say Anything...,» «Jerry Maguire» and «Almost Famous» — so frequently strains for his signature poignancy that it feels like a parody of a Crowe script.

It was 7:30 in the morning on March 18, 2003 when I talked with Solomon about his film, but the early hour didn't put a a dent in Solomon's thoughtful introspection about his characters, the realities of filmmaking on a budget, or in his quick wit, the one that propelled his script for MEN IN BLACK I.

Her script «Valerio,» about a legendary Italian bank robber, made the 2010 Brit List, and has Kevin Macdonald gearing up to direct soon, but last year saw her write the script that looks to put her on the A-list: «Saving Mr. Banks,» about the relationship between Walt Disney and «Mary Poppins» author P.L. Travers, placed on the 2011 Black List, and sold earlier this year to Disney, which attached «The Blind Side» helmer John Lee Hancock, with the filmmakers targeting no less than Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson for the leads.

«Early on, in the script stage, I really felt like it should have a musical accompaniment that would be another voice in the movie,» said Baumbach, who admitted crying whenever he hears the score for «The Natural.»

Proyas, in the requisite HBO behind - the - scenes glorified press release, called I, Robot a documentary of the future; I call it an astonishingly bloated misfire with glints of gold here and there (a new generation of robots are called «Nestors» — apparently named by someone early on in the screenwriting process after the peacemaker between Agamemnon and Achilles during the Trojan War), buried beneath all the simpering, condescending idiot - rhetoric of Akiva Goldsman, who, if he leaves a smart reference in a script, makes double - sure to explain it in small words for an audience he presumes is several times stupider than he is.