Released from the shackles of an origin story, screenwriters Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Jeff Pinkner (with an additional
screen story credit for James Vanderbilt of
Not exact matches
As Rubin attempted to tell a
story about the problems she was having obtaining a new
credit card, Orkin repeatedly cut her off, until a discreet slide - in notification appeared on his computer
screen: «Frequent overlaps.»
Armed with a
screen story and script
credited to Ryan J. Condol (Hercules), Carlton Cuse (San Andreas), Ryan Engle (The Commuter), and Adam Sztykiel (Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip), the film is loaded with hammy exposition and handwavy explanations for what is even happening and why characters are doing things at any point in time.
What's most telling about this film is that a good two thirds of the most interesting, compelling parts of the
story (the subsequent revelations after the trial) are told in brief text flashed up on
screen just before the
credits.
until the end isn't hard, but right at that last moment before the
credits roll, some end titles come up on the
screen and just flat - out tell us the ending of the
story.
The
Story (Alan Wake): As I sat on my couch watching the
credits for Alan Wake slide up the
screen of my television I thought «Wow, this is it.»
Credits: Director (Christian Ditter) Writers (Screenplay by Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein and Dana Fox,
Screen story by Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein, Based on the book How to be Single by Liz Tuccillo
Although other films might've depicted a fun - filled female - bonding sequence as a throwaway montage backed by an En Vogue song,
Story transformed it into a full - fledged music video set to Bell Biv DeVoe's 1990 mega-hit «Poison,» complete with MTV - and BET - style corner -
screen end
credits, resulting in one of Think Like a Man Too's most memorable scenes.
This one's screenplay is solely
credited to Anderson, though British artist and Anderson friend Hugo Guinness shares
story credit and Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig gets one whopper of an «inspired by»
screen at the start of the end
credits.
The
screen story is
credited to Madden and Ol Parker with the screenplay by Parker.
As is texted on
screen during the opening
credits, «M and D» is «Based on a True
Story... Sort Of».
Norwegian director Morten Tyldum (the excellent Headhunters, 2011) brings Andrew Hodges» biographical book to the
screen in the form of the remarkable and true
story of Alan Turing, the man
credited by many (including Winston Churchill) for helping win WWII.
Problem is, the script,
credited to David Koepp (Jurassic Park), Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher) and Dylan Kussman, all working from a
screen story by Jon Spaihts (Passengers), Jenny Lumet (Rachel Getting Married) and director Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek), is dead on arrival, the whole thing so shockingly stupid it's a wonder how so many talented people could all have their hands in concocting something so relentlessly pedestrian.
It's very much to Cooke's
credit, too, that he has brought no cheap embellishment to a stark
story in the way that Hollywood might have done (the
screen rights were first with Ang Lee, apparently).
And it's a game, like nothing I've played before, of
stories, each different of tone, length, delivery, every one wrapped up within the framing of a wholly separate one — the one you see first, the game's title still on the
screen, but won't properly understand until the end
credits.
61 hours later I found myself looking at the charming end
credits screen having struggled much more than I thought I might through a surprisingly emotional
story.