Sentences with phrase «original screenplay credited»

In the original screenplay credited to Brian Tucker, those are questions that are raised but then pushed to the sideline as the story jumps forward to the fall of 2012.

The screenplay was the brainchild of Marc Norman but on Weinstein's suggestion, England's esteemed playwright Tom Stoppard was hired to do a rewrite, and they shared original screenplay credit.

Not exact matches

First, an almost flawless first time original screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, whose only other writing credit was for his adaptation of the Icelandic film that became the Mark Wahlberg hit «Contraband.»

Instead, it's based on an original screenplay by Charles Grayson (The Barbarian and the Geisha, 1958), The Woman on Pier 13, 1949) and Vincent B. Evans, a real - life bombardier on the Memphis Belle during WW2 whose only other screen credit was for Chain Lightning (1950).

While Baum's writings are credited, the screenplay by Mitchell Kapner (The Whole Nine Yards) and David Lindsay - Abaire (Rabbit Hole, Rise of the Guardians) is largely its own original entity, one modeled as much on the Garland film as anything else.

There is even an effort by Loter, who shares story credit with Tom Rogers (who also shares screenplay credit with three others), to pack a little emotion into the proceedings, aided by some original songs by KT Tunstall and Bleu.

A screenplay, adapted or original, which has four or more credited screenwriters.

Francis Coppola's (he dropped the «Ford» in the»80s) Life Without Zoe (34:19) is the film's insignificant weak link, although it is noteworthy for being the first writing credit of Coppola's daughter Sofia, who has since blossomed into an esteemed director herself and an original screenplay Oscar winner.

Ayer, whose career began at the start of the millennium with screenplay credits for U-571 and the original The Fast and the Furious, has evolved into a respected filmmaker as writer - director of End of Watch and Fury.

Superficially, the plotline of Obsessed reads like a thinly - veiled remake of Fatal Attraction, as it features so many similarities to that classic thriller that the original's scriptwriter, James Dearden, deserves to share a credit for the screenplay.

It's been in development since 2009, a long time even for animation, and though LeFauve has sole screenplay credit, the fact that she shares story credit with four other writers — Sohn, Erik Benson, Kelsey Mann and Bob Peterson (who also has an original concept and development credit) points up how many cooks were involved in this tasty broth.

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

Directing from a solidly plotted script by Brian Helgeland, who isn't slavish to the original film (the film credits John Godey's novel but not the 1976 screenplay adaptation), he delivers a focused and refreshingly straightforward thriller that forgoes the usual high tech confusion and contrived high - concept twists so often laid in to surprise audiences.

Coppola noted that his adapted classics always gave possessive credit to the original writer, including the beloved «Godfather» films, which were always marketed as «Mario Puzo's «The Godfather» instead of «Francis Ford Coppola's «The Godfather» because, as he explained, «Anyone who's adapted screenplays knows the author did the heavy lifting.»

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.

After Memento and its follow - up, Insomnia (the only one of his films on which he does not have a screenplay credit), he changed the way many people thought about superhero films with his Dark Knight trilogy (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises), punctuated by a few mind - bending films with original screenplays (The Prestige and Inception).

The screenplay is by Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote or co-wrote original trilogy Star Wars movies The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, as well as 2015 franchise reboot The Force Awakens, along with his son Jonathan Kasdan, whose previous credits include writing and directing the rom - com The First Time.

Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr., «Natural Born Killers,» 1994) Oliver Stone's «Natural Born Killers» sprung from another of Tarantino's original creations, though our featured director is credited with the story, not the screenplay.

Despite the palpable electricity between McQueen and Dunaway, the original's romance felt rushed and therefore somewhat forced; here, screenwriter Leslie Dixon (who shares screenplay credit with Kurt Wimmer, who, in a unique arrangement, handled only the action scenes) fleshes out the love story, showing how their basic desire develops into real affection.

The screenplay, which borrows some of the plot touchstones from the original 1933 «King Kong» but reshapes them, is credited to Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein and Derek Connolly.

An original tale like Only, Neon Demon, which credits Refn alone with story and has him share responsibility for the screenplay with novice duo Mary Laws and Polly Shenham, initially seems to find the director stretching his creative muscles.

A two - time Oscar winner for adapted screenplay, Payne has turned for the first time to a script he does not have a writing credit on, an original by Bob Nelson, who began his career as a comedy writer before turning his attention to Woodrow T. Grant, Woody to his friends, a man on a mission.

If the word «adapted» is tripping you up, the CliffsNotes explanation is that the Academy's nutso rules decree that established franchises, whose subsequent installments have such credits as «based on characters created by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan,» become ineligible for Original Screenplay honors.

Remember, though, we are a long way off from the original»72 screenplay, which was credited to Neil Simon.

Nominations for the 87th Annual Academy Awards were released today and among the nine nods for Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel is a nomination for best original screenplay, credited to Anderson and the artist Hugo Guinness.This is not the... Read More