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Director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Steve Jobs) and original screenwriter John Hodge are back for this one which is only loosely inspired by author Irvine Welsh's sequel, Porno.

They had reason to be fearful, knowing how things often go with sequels, but Boyle, teaming up again with original screenwriter John Hodge, has pulled a fabulously misshapen rabbit out of his hat, which triggers echoes of the 1996 film yet can stand unaided in its own right.

Not exact matches

Gia isn't hagiography, I'll give it that, but it is reductive to a fault; once known as a screenwriter with a literary bent, having risen to the challenge of distilling novels by no less than John Updike and Tom Wolfe, Cristofer turned into a sensationalist when he started directing, and virtually anything that's not an exploitation staple is relegated to the margins in Gia — not to mention in Cristofer's sophomore efforts Body Shots and Original Sin.

Similar to the original, the terrorism threat scenario cooked up by returning screenwriters Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, with help from new writers Christian Gudegast and Chad St. John, seems plausible.

That it still manages to be entertaining despite looking, sounding and feeling exactly like the original film is to the great credit of director Danny Boyle, with slightly less credit to screenwriter John Hodge for reasons which will soon become apparent.

Screenwriters and directors Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daley essentially construct a series of setpieces to comedically interrupt the Griswolds as they journey from point A to point B. However, filling the shoes of John Hughes who penned the original «Vacation» is a task not easily done, and missing from the pages of this movie is an underlying sense of heart, and anything resembling a thoughtful approach to humor.

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One of the year's unlikeliest sequels, «T2 Trainspotting» reunites the cast of the 1996 indie hit «Trainspotting» with its director Danny Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge in a story that catches up with the restless Scottish heroin addicts of Irvine Welsh's original novel, 20 years later.

Boyle (and returning screenwriter John Hodge) have kept the visual mania but also perhaps the original's grimy humanity.

From one, there are original screenwriter (the adapter remains uncredited) Gore Vidal and the Serious British Actors (including no less than Sir John Gielgud and Peter O'Toole), who obviously believed they were making a serious exposé of the decadence of the Roman empire, namely the reign of the megalomaniacal title character (Malcolm McDowell).

Our staff includes two professional screenwriters, John Robert Marlow and Robert Blake Whitehill, who specialize in critiquing, editing, and ghostwriting original screenplays.