Sentences with phrase «role as screenwriter»

As a novelist Alex Garland gave us the intriguing The Beach, while in his role as a screenwriter he's brought us 28 Days Later, Sunshine and the adaptation of Never Let Me Go.

It's a shame that, in his role as screenwriter, he has to rely so heavily on the often tried and almost - as - often tired formula of this genre.

Other vets like Michael McKean and Bob Balaban are relegated to throwaway roles as the screenwriters, and newcomers like Rachael Harris hardly get a minute of screen time to shine.

Not exact matches

At a panel discussion at GWU's School of New Media and Public Affairs on Monday, Rospars described in particular the vital role of online video content, whose power the campaign recognized from the beginning — very early in the race, Obama's team already included a videographer and screenwriter / producer squad to shoot footage both for internal / documentary purposes and (more importantly) for use in public as a persuasive tool.

After spending much of his primary and secondary school education in an alternative arts school, he studied film at New York University.Louiso began his career with minor roles in such films as Stella (1989) and Billy Bathgate (1991), the latter of which provided him with an introduction to Tom Stoppard, who was the film's screenwriter.

Biography: Sarah is a Canadian actress, singer, film director and screenwriter, better known for her role as Sarah Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea.

Sarah is a Canadian actress, singer, film director and screenwriter, better known for her role as Sarah Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea.

I think that novelist - now - screenwriter Emma Donoghue originally wanted to present an ironic counterpoint for a character who is manic and crazed from seven years as a sex - slave captive (five of them as a mother), oublietted away in some freak's (Sean Bridgers, who already played this role in Lucky McKee's The Woman) garden shed.

Molly's Game (***) Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network) marks his directing debut with this tense crime / drama / thriller about Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a young woman who turns a job as a personal assistant to an obnoxious young boss into a proprietor role, organizing high - stakes Hollywood poker games that make her wealthy and hounded by the FBI.

That was just turned in by Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves, and has reportedly been delivered to a handful of actors, with a few in mind as possible choices for the two lead roles of Kaneda and Tetsuo.

Mike White — «Year of the Dog» Maybe one of the purest expressions of «screenwriter - turned - director» (though he's also an actor given to appearing in character roles in some of his films) Mike White had, in years leading to 2007, carved out quite a distinctive place for himself as an indie screenwriter dealing more in low - key human dramedy than some of the more bombastic Shane Black - types, or more mainstream Steve Zaillian - types on our list.

Deserved recognition also came from the institutions, as screenwriter Josh Olson received an Academy Award nomination, just like William Hurt did for his supporting role.

Nicolas Cage's double role as twin screenwriters is deceptively simple but incredibly funny.

Long before John Krasinski came on board his Sundance premiere «The Hollars» as director, he had been eyed by screenwriter James Strouse as a strong contender to play the film's leading role, as father - to - be with a lot on his shoulders, John Hollar.

Fox's awards campaign is leaning into the women who helped to make this movie, from producer Amy Pascal and star Streep to young screenwriter Liz Hannah, as well as the central role Graham played in a patriarchal business culture that was unprepared to accept powerful women in its ranks.

Director James Marsh and screenwriter Anthony McCarten never romanticize Jane's role as a caregiver for her husband, but pay respect to the grandiose triumphs (and typical disappointments) of their marriage using the literally awesome subject matter of Hawking's theories as an analogy.

Fearlessly led by Bryan Cranston as the blacklisted screenwriter and featuring Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg, Louis C.K., and Diane Lane, among so many others, in key supporting roles, «Trumbo» is a rollicking excursion into a dark chapter of Hollywood history.

This is also newly remastered and includes the supplements from the earlier DVD special edition: two commentary tracks (on by film historian Richard Schickel, one by film historian / screenwriter Lem Dobbs and film historian Nick Redman), the featurette «Shadows of Suspense,» an introduction by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne, and the 1973 TV - movie remake starring Richard Crenna in the MacMurray role, Samantha Eggar as the seductive Phyllis, and Lee J. Cobb as the insurance boss Keys.

Early last week, Dark Universe broke the shocking news that actor, director, and screenwriter, Nick Castle, is reprising his role in next year's Halloween film as Michael Myers!

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

We've got our first look at Meryl Streep in what will presumably be her next Oscar - nominated role as a hard - rocking front - woman in director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Diablo Cody's upcoming comedy Ricki and the Flash... In a film loaded with music and live performance, Streep stars as Ricki, a guitar heroine who gave up everything -LSB-...]

Deadpool 2 will be written by the film's original screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, and Ryan Reynolds is signed - on to reprise his role as the titular hero.

She is reprising her role as the strict boarding house manager Madge Keogh for a TV spin - off of the film, and she told reporters she was excited for the show and the involvement of screenwriter / author Nick Hornby and director John Crowley.

Blanchett delights in this expanded role as much as screenwriter Chris Weitz was apparently delighted in penning it.

Daniel Brühl («Inglourious Basterds»), as always, is great in the role but still little more than a plot device - as though the screenwriters thought it would be too dark for the good guys to fracture without a push from a manipulative outsider.

Brolin has the movie's most difficult role; Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black make Dan White almost too sympathetic, explaining away his ultimate deeds as the acts of a «confused» man, if you know what I mean.

Scout Tafoya's series on overlooked or under appreciated films continues with screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's debut feature, a comedy starring Tom Hanks as a put - upon factory worker and Meg Ryan in three roles as three different muses.

But screenwriter Julian Fellowes, best known for Robert Altman's Gosford Park (2001), clearly sees Victoria as a worthwhile role model for young women.

When a Twitter user asked Landis why he thought the villagers in the original film didn't stop the werewolf themselves, the screenwriter revealed that he's exploring this detail in his script, and it will account for one of the biggest deviations from the original film: «Answering this question and the nature of the village's role in the plot in the second and third act as of now are the biggest changes I've made to the original structure... Doing some fun stuff.»

Matt Damon (Rounders, Dogma) and Ben Affleck (Forces of Nature, Armageddon) would serve as executive producers thanks to a deal they signed to develop films with Miramax, and would also have small bit roles themselves, and would give a co-starring nod to the relatively unknown Jay Lacopo, who is also the screenwriter, and previous star of Ben Affleck's first directorial gig, a short entitled, I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three - picture Deal at Disney.

Note the way Conan treats her as a servant to be ordered around until she proves herself in battle by killing a pair of enemies (Even the monks in the world of Hyboria seem to train in battle), and then note the way the screenwriters eliminate that hint of strength to further reduce her to a sexual object and the role of damsel in distress in the climactic showdown.

While it was originally unclear how screenwriters Snyder, David S. Goyer and Chris Terrio (Argo) planned to use Princess Diana of Themyscira in the film, she played a key role in the movie, by acting as a foil to Bruce Wayne, helping Batman and Superman defeat Doomsday, and teaming up with Bruce Wayne to assemble the Justice League in the wake of Superman's death.

McCarten knows his way around biopics, having won two academy awards for his role as a producer and screenwriter for The Theory of Everything, including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.