Tracy Letts, whose August: Osage County play is written into
the screenplay for Killer Joe, works with director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) once again, both having worked on the 2006 ultra paranoia movie Bug.
Not exact matches
They begin as just another gimmick - the world's toughest
killers abducted from Earth and set loose on an intergalactic game preserve - but the
screenplay actually finds room
for them to flourish and grow as characters.
«The Executioner's Song»: Norman Mailer wrote the
screenplay for this TV movie based on his book about Gary Gilmore, the Utah
killer who made headlines in the late»70s when he insisted that his death sentence be carried out, making him the first person to be executed in the U.S. in more than a decade.
A newly minted Oscar nominee
for The Lobster, Lanthimos has the backing of A24 and a
killer release date (November 3rd) so the dark thriller could quite easily find itself in the running in the Original
Screenplay and Supporting Actress categories (
for Nicole Kidman).
His first
screenplay was
for the little - seen 1995 Kelly LeBrock thriller, Tracks of a
Killer, which, like Identity, features a trip to an isolated place (here a chalet) where a crazed psycho runs rampant.