He wrote this film with two
other credited screenwriters, Gabriel Dowrick and Steven Elder, and while the dialogue isn't exactly Mametian — or Schwarzeneggerian, for that matter — he makes himself a noble hero and keeps the emoting mostly within his limited range.
Not exact matches
These issues are probably ones that challenged Steve Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness, The Weather Man), the lone
credited screenwriter, and the many
others before him who tried to update James Thurber's 1939 short story for modern times.
So we're really rather glad that Frank Miller, otherwise known in the screenwriting world for the «Robocop» sequels and for gifting
other screenwriters with comic book fodder in «Elektra,» «Sin City,» «300» and his gritty take on Batman, chose «The Spirit» as his solo directorial debut (he's
credited as co-director with Robert Rodriguez on «Sin City» but we believe that even less now having seen what he did when left to his own devices).
Cat People was the first project he had not written himself, a script that had been developed by
other directors, and while he had
screenwriter Alan Ormsby significantly rework the script with his own ideas, Schrader took no screen
credit for it.
One of the film's
screenwriters was no less than William Faulkner; the
others were Jules Furthman, responsible for
other vintage classics like Mutiny on the Bounty, Nightmare Alley and Rio Bravo, and Leigh Brackett, whose final screen
credit would come decades later in the form of The Empire Strikes Back.