Segel and his frequent writing partner Nicholas Stoller
get screenplay credit alongside sitcom writer - producer Kate Angelo, who originated the story.
Not exact matches
The rowdy
screenplay by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick («The Real Villains» according to the opening
credits) is full of viciously fun winks at countless pop culture references («Yentl»
gets particular attention), but it's never funnier than when it turns on itself.
Park brought the DP Chung - hoon Chung, his regular cinematographer since Oldboy, but the rest of the talent was provided by the producers, from the stars to ace production designer Thérèse DePrez (wooed by hardcore indies as well as studio executives), including the actor Wentworth Miller, who signs here his first
screenplay (and
gets a production
credit).
Her latest, Laggies, is her first directorial outing where Shelton has not also written the
screenplay (Andrea Siegel
gets her first
credit instead), which divorces the film from a body of work largely improvised and often careening off the cuff to mostly enjoyable effect.
Josh Heald, who conceived the first film and shared
screenplay credit with the duo of Sean Anders and John Morris,
gets no
credited help this time around.
Snyder still
gets solo director billing on Justice League, with the former Buffy creator sharing a
screenplay credit with Chris Terrio, but the upbeat tone of the movie — snappy patter blending with action unburdened by subtext — is definitely Whedonesque.
This one's
screenplay is solely
credited to Anderson, though British artist and Anderson friend Hugo Guinness shares story
credit and Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig
gets one whopper of an «inspired by» screen at the start of the end
credits.
This is Kazan's first
screenplay credit, but we have no reservations on the quality of her work: her Off - Broadway play «We Live Here» unfortunately drew comparisons to the often histrionic and extravagant «Rachel
Getting Married» for sharing a similar plot, but the former was actually a much stronger and subtler work without all of the miserablist Oscar - beggar mayhem.
William Nicholson (Shadowlands, Gladiator)
gets credit for the
screenplay along with Herbert Kretzmer, who transformed Boublil's original French lyrics into the now - familiar English ones.
Give Breaking In this much
credit: Once the action
gets going, Ryan Engle's
screenplay continuously finds ways to keep it going.
Martin again
gets co-writing
credit for the
screenplay, and again there are a smattering of funny moments that no doubt emerged from Martin's pen.
Even Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin and James Gandolfini (in one of his final film roles)
get in on the laughs, and that's mostly to the
credit of Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daly's amusing
screenplay.
A successful Wahlberg action programmer from yesteryear, F. Gary Gray's hit 2003 take on The Italian Job,
gets a Bollywood makeover (completely authorized and official at that; that earlier film and its
screenplay gets its due screen
credit here) with Players, and famed «director duo» Abbas - Mustan do deserve some due for attempting a balance between faithfulness to the source film (hello, Mini Coopers!)