Not exact matches
But scribes Andrew Knight (who
mostly works in
television but also scripted Russell Crowe's directorial effort The Water Diviner in 2014) and Robert Schenkkan (who has also worked as a
television writer since adapting Graham Greene's The Quiet American for Phillip Noyce) give leverage to Doss» interactions with his combative superiors (a rather kitschy but likeable Vince Vaughn fares better than a somnolent Sam Worthington), underlining his developmental difficulties with authority figures thanks to his alcoholic dad.
Writer John Pollono's credits are
mostly in
television, yet his distillation of the events and richly drawn characters are satisfyingly cinematic.
Writer / director Joss Whedon — who, before he became the anchor of the Marvel ship, was
mostly known as the successful
television showrunner of series such as «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and «Angel» — starts the story in medias res, as our heroes are closing in on the latest Hydra hideout.