Sentences with phrase «roles in movies written»

Alas, her immediate plans post-30 Rock include more roles in movies written by others (The Muppets... Again!

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And while it's no surprise that the movie omits and elides important players and crucial episodes, its honed focus jibes with the view of the former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, who wrote that the «public disclosure of the Pentagon Papers challenged the core of a president's power: his role in foreign and national security affairs.»

So far in 2017, Woody Harrelson has taken - on the villain role in «War for the Planet of the Apes», the lead in the quirky indie comedy «Wilson», and he made history by writing, directing and starring in the first - ever «live» movie, «Lost in London».

And so McGowan accepted the deal: Rodriguez would write the most badass role imaginable for her in his new movie, and Harvey Weinstein had no choice but to finance it.

Japanese - Australian acor Shiori Kutsana is best known for her roles in Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV and Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge, but also co-starred in several manga - based movies and television shows including BECK and Detective Conan.

Even James Spader fans will come away mostly empty - handed in an under - written role as the stuffy companion, leaving us with but half a good movie, and characters we bailed out on around the time of their first copulation.

When you were writing this movie, did you always have Ralph Fiennes in mind for the role of M Gustave?

Life Lessons features a young Steve Buscemi in one of his first big movie roles as performance artist Gregory Stark, who performs comic monologues (written by Buscemi himself) on abandoned subway tracks, falling far short of Dobie's definition of art, which is «you make art because you have to,»cause you got no choice.»

The actor plays the Marvel Cinematic Universe Big Bad Thanos in the upcoming Avengers sequels, but he also landed the coveted role of Cable in 20th Century Fox's superhero sequel Deadpool 2, which paves the way for Brolin's Cable to lead the in - development X-Force movie to be written and directed by Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods).

John Requa & Glenn Ficarra are in talks to write, direct and produce the Suicide Squad spinoff movie that is will have Margot Robbie and Jared Leto reprising their roles, she playing Harley Quinn and he playing her demented boyfriend The Joker.

He backs the movie and writes the script, directs it, and stars in the lead role.

But first, we discuss how she broke into the business despite having no encouragement from her parents at the time; why she loves to go on auditions even if the prospect of getting work is hopeless; her time in The Groundlings and how it led to having the part of Rita in the movie smash Bridesmaids (written for her by fellow Groundlings Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo); as well as taking on a real - life dramatic role in the upcoming Felt, the story of infamous Watergate «Deep Throat» Mark Felt — played, she says sensationally, by Liam Neeson.

At the film's recent press day, Tatum, Bomer, Manganiello, Nash, Rodriguez, Stephen «tWitch» Boss, Jada Pinkett Smith, Amber Heard, Andie MacDowell, Donald Glover, Jacobs and Carolin talked about their favorite moment from the shoot, how the first film inspired the sequel, the decision to cast Pinkett - Smith in a role originally written for a guy, why the male camaraderie was so important to the film, how they fit all the dance routines into the movie, the amazing finale with 900 extras, what they've learned about what women want, and why this is a great date movie.

Or — and we're just throwing this out there — what if he was brought in to write the film's post-credits stinger, setting him up to take on a bigger writing role in another upcoming MCU movie?

Though Southpaw may not be the kind of movie that Academy voters will deliver accolades to, it's a masterful performance for Gyllenhaal, in a role originally intended for left - handed rapper Eminem (no joke), who breathes a great deal of life to a role that could easily have been deemed underwritten if left to someone who didn't add more to what had been on the written pages of the old - fashioned script.

In addition to his role as director, Wright — known for bitingly funny films like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End, as well as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — cowrote the movie's script with Joe Cornish, who worked on the screenplay for The Adventures of Tintin and wrote and directed Attack the Block.

He fails miserably and, as a result, gives Jane the worst written role in a movie filled with poorly written roles.

Actor Ezra Miller will play the role of Barry Allen aka The Flash in the upcoming live - action movie written and directed by Seth Grahame - Smith.

The next day, Sunday, February 22, the movie will be in the running for five Oscars: Best Motion Picture, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Writing, Best Achievements in Editing and Best Achievement in Sound Mixing.

John Sayles (who previously wrote Piranha for Dante) came with Dante from the Corman movie factory and contributes a clever script (adapted from a novel by Gary Brandner) with some character nice touches in the supporting roles and a modicum of wit in the dialogue.

Time travel plays a key role in the movie's distended wormhole of a narrative, which takes inspiration from textbooks both real (Stephen Hawking's «A Brief History of Time») and fictional («The Philosophy of Time Travel,» written by Roberta Sparrow, who is played in the film by Patience Cleveland).

At the film's recent press day, Speedman spoke about his creative collaboration with Egoyan with whom he worked previously on Adoration, how Egoyan wrote the role specifically with him in mind, why he was drawn to the complicated character and enjoyed the challenge of an enigmatic story, the backstory he created for his character, his research with the Kitchener - Waterloo detectives, working with Reynolds and Dawson, how they had fun while doing serious work on a dark movie, and his upcoming films: October Gale, a romantic thriller with Patricia Clarkson, and Out of the Dark, a horror - thriller with Julia Stiles.

Umpteen years after The Weinstein's passed on Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer's proposal for a «Halloween 3D» (which, I believe, was to be somewhat connected to Rob Zombie's two movies — complete with Scout Taylor - Compton back in the role of Laurie Strode), the studio's hired another writing unit to take a stab at resurrecting Michael Myers.

It may seem a bit presumptuous of Zoe Kazan to write the movie with herself and long - time boyfriend Paul Dano in mind for the lead roles, but it's evident pretty early on that the two actors have great chemistry.

Kay Cannon, who wrote the first movie, is working on the script and every single star from the original, including Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, and Skylar Astin, has expressed interest in reprising their roles at Barden University.

Feige talks about Doctor Strange's origin story, how the movie will be different from the comics, rooting crazy concepts in real science, does Steven Strange know about The Avengers, how the film is more respectful to other cultures than the original source material may have been, how this movie was inspired by The Oath, which characters might connect with the Runaways, Mads Mikkelsen «s character Kaecilius, multiple dimensions, the trouble with writing magic action, how Mordo is different in the movie, Rachel McAdams «character Christine Palmer, is the eye of agamotto an infinity stone, the genre of the film, how this film will defy expectations, Steven Strange's role in the larger MCU, will we see cameos from the other Marvel characters, and much more.

So he cast me in that role, and I worked on it for a day, and it was just myself and Jane Adams and him, and... you know, he wrote a great scene, and he's really smart and bright, and it was... (Hesitates) When I met him, I said, «I really want to play it real,» because a lot of times I'll get a movie, and they'll go, «Can you do that thing where you're, like, bigger than life?»

Affleck turned his attention to supporting roles in movies for the next four years, as well as writing and directing.

- Ken Watanabe has joined the cast, taking on the role of Detective Yoshida - Rob Letterman (Goosebumps) is directing the project - due to start shooting this month in London - when Justice Smith's character in the movie has his father kidnapped, the teen teams up with Pikachu in order to find him - Nicole Perlman and Alex Hirsch wrote the script with Eric Pearson and Tom McCarthy having completed production polishes - Mary Parent and Cale Boyter are producing for Legendary - Joe Caracciolo Jr. and Pokemon's Tsunekazu Ishihara are executive producing - Legendary's Alexandra Mendes will co-produce

Ray has extensive roots in geek culture, as he's written about videogames, comics, and movies for such outlets as Newsday.com, ESPNNewYork.com, Classic Game Room on YouTube, Collider.com, and Comicvine.com before finally settling into his role as EGM's reviews editor.

Publisher Ubisoft has recruited Oscar - nominated Michael Fassbender to play the lead role in the Assassin's Creed film (December), developer Rovio has picked the team to create the Angry Birds movie (May), while the Ratchet and Clank film (April) has been written by their creators, Insomniac.