Sentences with phrase «last screenplays he wrote»

Final Victory was written by Wong Kar - wai, one of the last screenplays he wrote before his 1988 directorial debut As Tears Go By, and in this intersection of genre film and full - blown romance, it is consistent with his later works, where the primal DNA of films like Days of Being Wild, Fallen Angels and even Chungking Express can be found in Hong Kong cop / gangster sagas (As Tears Go By is explicitly a Triad film).

Not exact matches

Adapted briskly and faithfully by Steve Kloves (who wrote all but the fifth Potter screenplay), the movie jumps right in where the last one ended - with Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes) acquisition of the all - powerful Elder Wand.

Written by Alex Ross Perry (who's maybe the last human being on Earth whose name you'd expect to see in the closing credits) and filled with all of the sincerity that he's left out of the savagely caustic screenplays he's written for himself, «Nostalgia» begins with an insurance agent named Daniel (John Ortiz) visiting Ronald, a curmudgeonly old hoarder played by BrucWritten by Alex Ross Perry (who's maybe the last human being on Earth whose name you'd expect to see in the closing credits) and filled with all of the sincerity that he's left out of the savagely caustic screenplays he's written for himself, «Nostalgia» begins with an insurance agent named Daniel (John Ortiz) visiting Ronald, a curmudgeonly old hoarder played by Brucwritten for himself, «Nostalgia» begins with an insurance agent named Daniel (John Ortiz) visiting Ronald, a curmudgeonly old hoarder played by Bruce Dern.

The screenplay is written by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant, the screenwriting duo responsible for one of the worst movies of last year, Taxi.

Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for Martin Scorsese's «Taxi Driver,» «Raging Bull,» and «The Last Temptation of Christ» and has directed 18 feature films, including «American Gigolo,» «Affliction,» «Auto Focus,» and «The Canyons.»

«Hillbilly Elegy» «The Shape of Water» took home the biggest award at last night's Oscars ceremony, and while it didn't take home the statue for best original screenplay, writer - director Guillermo del Toro earned a nomination, and it's no surprise that his co-writer Vanessa Taylor is already prepping to write a new script.

It's fairly obvious that most of the problems lie in the screenplay and the last movie's bad dialogue from the fast - paced riffing between the humans to the robot's lines, carries over to this one, this time solely written by Ehren Kruger.

(He also wrote the screenplay but it's not his first; he shared credit for last year's Keanu.)

The screenplay has been written by Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and John Logan (Any Given Sunday, The Last Samurai, Sweeney Todd).

Martin knew Scorsese from NYU and had written or co-written Mean Streets and New York, New York; Raging Bull was his last screenplay (he retired).

Screenwriter David Seidler wrote a stage treatment «as a way to work out the relationships among the characters for himself», according to his manager Jeff Aghassi in an interview last year with The New York Times, though the screenplay is believed to have come first.

It has been an exceptional franchise in that its global grosses continue to grow with each new installment, with Clint Culpepper's Screen Gems releasing in the U.S. Anderson, who wrote all the screenplays, directed the first film, skipped the next two and returned to direct the last three 3D efforts.

Ron Howard's new movie Rush, from a screenplay written by Peter Morgan (The Last King of Scotland, The Queen, Frost / Nixon, Hereafter), is a biography about Formula 1 champion driver Niki Lauda and the 1976 crash that almost claimed his life.

Written and directed by Dale Launer, who had been the screenwriter for some pretty good comedies, such as My Cousin Vinny, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Ruthless People, this would be his first and last attempt at directing (also his last screenplay).

The screenplay is written by David Scarpa (The Last Castle, The Day the Earth Stood Still).

Silent Hill 2 was first announced last September, with Silent Hill screenwriter Roger Avary writing the new screenplay.

Last we heard from Captain America: The Winter Soldier directors Joe and Anthony Russo they were winning our hearts by talking about how they like to take a little thing called logic into account when writing their screenplays.

The screenplay is by X-Men: The Last Stand and Fantastic Four scribe Zak Penn along with actor Edward Norton (writing under a nom de plume).

Sheridan's writing credits include last year's «Sicario,» for which he received a WGA nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Even Nolan's brother, Jonathan - who wrote the screenplays with him - has affirmed that this is the last movie in the series.

But Shyamalan doesn't even pen the script either, in fact, the screenplay was written by Brian Nelson, which just makes me wonder why the marketing team even bothered to emphasis M. Night's name in the trailers — it doesn't make sense, especially since The Last Airbender (which was absolutely atrocious) is still fresh in everyone's mind.

The movie also scored nominations for Paul Haggis for best direction and original screenplay (co-written with Bobby Moresco), continuing his streak after «Million Dollar Baby,» which he wrote, won as last year's best picture.

Rian Johnson and the Star Wars: The Last Jedi production team address the approach to writing the movie's screenplay.

Though he wrote the screenplay for Last Stand, he did not direct it, so this will be the director's debut in the storyline and it's something that he holds close to his heart.

Sony has been developing a new take on the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci - fi flick Total Recall for a while now, but things went fairly silent ever since Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium, Salt) was hired to write the screenplay last year.

Gore Verbinski, the man behind the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, The Ring and The Weather Man, has signed on to direct the film from a screenplay written by John Logan (Gladiator, Star Trek: Nemesis, The Last Samurai).

The play was written by Oscar winner Kenneth Lonergan, who won the Best Original Screenplay award last year for his movie Manchester by the Sea.

We moved on to being a first - time director, how her father's death while writing the screenplay informed the final product, and why Herb Alpert is the best choice for the last song ever.

SUNSHINE CLEANING ** 1/2 / **** starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Jason Spevack screenplay by Megan Holley directed by Christine Jeffs THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT ** 1/2 / **** starring Garret Dillahunt, Sara Paxton, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn screenplay by Adam Alleca and Carl Ellsworth, based on the motion picture written and directed by Wes Craven directed by Dennis Iliadis RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN * 1/2 / **** Image A - Sound B + Extras C starring Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Carla Gugino, Ciarán Hinds screenplay by Matt Lopez and Mark Bomback, based on the book Escape to Witch Mountain by Alexander Key directed by Andy Fickman

Writing the screenplay for The Last Metro with Suzanne Schiffman, I intended to do for the theater what I had done for the cinema in Day for Night: the chronicle of a troupe at work, within a framework respecting the unities of place, time, and actio...

Farrell was first to get on board when the screenplay, co-scripted with the director's usual writing partner Efthymis Filippou, was finished; the actor, who starred in Lanthimos's last film The Lobster, recalled how he felt «perturbed, confused and ultimately moved» when he read it, just as he had been by their previous collaboration.

Since The Last Detail, Ponicsan has written a dozen more novels, one of which he adapted into a screenplay (Cinderella Liberty); meanwhile, his screenwriting credits branch out from military dramas into coming - of - age stories (Vision Quest), high - school dramas (School Ties, co-written by Dick Wolf), and political thrillers (Sydney Pollack's Random Hearts).

Director Ron Howard's (Frost / Nixon, Cinderella Man, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Willow) Rush, from a screenplay written by Peter Morgan (The Last King of Scotland, The Queen, Frost / Nixon, Hereafter), is a biography about Formula 1 champion driver Niki Lauda and the 1976 crash that almost claimed his life.

The compelling screenplay by Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken and Damien Chazelle (who last year wrote the amazing Whiplash screenplay) unfolds in such a powerful way that it's hard not to be impressed.

American Graffiti — If you had only seen George Lucas's last three movies, you'd be amazed to watch this one and see that not only can he actually make movies about humans, he can even write convincing dialogue for them to speak (he did have help with the screenplay, but that didn't help in Episodes 2 and 3).

It's based on the book by Colm Tóibín with a screenplay by Nick Hornby, who also wrote About a Boy, High Fidelity and adapted last year's Wild.

But how many know that he's also behind a couple of the best screenplays written over the last decade?

Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Looper), Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko), and Roberto Orci (Star Trek), masters of weaving time travel into the fabric of film, dissect the elements that make for a believable «operating system» when writing a comprehensible timeline for a screenplay.

My daughter Kate and I are also hoping to collaborate on a screenplay based on the last few years of Shirley Jackson's life, when she was writing We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

One of the most prolific writers of the last two centuries, Michael Crichton wrote bestselling novels, non-fiction collections, screenplays, essays, speeches and more.