The Chairman of the Arts Council, Pat Moylan has sent her congratulations to Irish writer Martin McDonagh who on Sunday night won a BAFTA award for best
original screenplay for the film In Bruges.
While he's been knocking around since the mid-1990s, writing pulp novels like The Beach and
screenplays for films such as Never Let Me Go, 28 Days Later and Sunshine, Ex Machina marks Alex Garland's debut as a director.
Screenplay / Script Adaptation (adapt your novella, book, or book manuscript into a feature -
length screenplay for film production)
He is best known for writing the novels The Half - Life and Rain Dragon, and for writing the short stories and
screenplays for the films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy.
The newest slate of contributors includes 11 notable authors who have been widely recognized in popular culture not only for their bestselling novels, but also for how their works have transcended the page
into screenplays for film and / or television.
Nicholls has also written
many screenplays for film and television, including the feature film adaptation of Starter... More about David Nicholls
Named in honor of film director Stanley Kubrick, who co-wrote
the screenplay for the film 2001: a Space Odyssey with Sir Arthur and directed the film version.
Montgomery produced, directed and co-wrote
the screenplay for the film.
«Harry Potter» author J.K. Rowling is currently writing
the screenplay for the film.
Jeremy and John - Henry Butterworth were named recipients of the Writers Guild of America West's 2011 Paul Selvin Award for
their screenplay for the film Fair Game (2010), directed by Doug Liman and which starred Naomi Watts and Sean Penn..
Trumbo wrote
the screenplay for a film about the meeting of Cortes and the Aztecs, originally titled Montezuma, in the 1960s.
John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, and Johnny Knoxville wrote
the screenplay for the film, which is about a daredevil who designs and operates his own theme park with his friends.
Moderator Neumier followed up with Nagy as to whether Highsmith was nervous about this novel becoming
a screenplay for film:
Strangely enough,
the screenplay for the film is credited to Adam McKay («Anchorman «-RRB- and Paul Rudd, which is odd given that at least two other writers were hired for a touch - up (a third is also mentioned here) post McKay's work on the film, and Rudd's name was never mentioned previously in conjunction with the screenplay (Wright and Joe Cornish, the original screenwriters, still get a «story by» credit).
Wilson wrote
the screenplay for the film version before he died in 2005.
Indiewire recently sat down with Black, who also co-wrote
the screenplay for the film, to talk about how the experience of making «Nice Guys» compared to directing «Iron Man 3» and what to expect from his upcoming project, the remake of 1987's «Predator» (in which Black had a supporting actor role).
Film screenwriter Bill Dubuque used his knowledge that he amassed while writing
the screenplays for films such as The Accountant and A Family Man to co-create Ozark, a TV series starring Jason Bateman about a financial planner who launders money for a Mexican cartel in the Missouri Ozarks.
You've seen it all before, especially if you are familiar with William Douglas - Home's play, «The Reluctant Debutante,» which was also made into a movie back in 1958, and
the screenplay for that film provides the backbone for What a Girl Wants (I assume the name change is meant to appeal to the aforementioned young girls familiar with the Christina Aguilera song of the same name.)
Based on the novel by Edward Bunker, Matthew Wilder writes
the screenplay for the film.
Tim Burton hand - picked Caroline Thompson to write
the screenplay for this film after he read one of her short stories.
It's partly about the Godard - Gorin British Sounds (1969) tour, with transcripts from some of the stops along the way, and it's also got
the screenplay for a film about the Marin County shootout; it's dedicated to George Jackson.
Seth Grahame - Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, has written
the screenplay for the film (based on a treatment by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller).
When he finished a movie titled Creature from the Haunted Sea early, he decided that since he has a cast, crew and locations on hand why not ask a screenwriter to quickly throw together
a screenplay for him film using that same cast, crew and locations!
(This doesn't take much acting on his part, as he really is the voice of A Prairie Home Companion, as well as the author of the story and
screenplay for this film.)
J.K. Rowling teases fans about her progress writing
the screenplay for the film sequel, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2.
Farr co-wrote
the screenplay for the film version with Seth Lochhead.
In the press release it also revealed
the screenplay for the film was written by Allan Heinberg and Geoff Johns from a story by Zack Snyder & Weinberg.
Wilson also writes
the screenplay for the film.
Ramsay was the only other woman to win a top non-acting award, earning Best
Screenplay for her film, You Were Never Really Here; she shared the prize with Greek filmmakers Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for their movie, The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Claiming best original
screenplay for the film, McDonagh called Rockwell his muse.
Mogel and Paul wrote the original
screenplay for the film, which was produced by David Bernad, Mike White, Jack Black, Priyanka Mattoo, Ben Latham - Jones and Barnaby Thompson.
Jordan Peele, the recipient of the Johnny Alba Innovation Award, won Best Original
Screenplay for his film «Get Out.»
The screenplay for the film is by Kelly Marcel.
The dramatic thriller is the third directorial effort from Billy Ray, who previously wrote and helmed Shattered Glass and Breach but is best known for penning
the screenplays for films like The Hunger Games and Captain Phillips.
David Chase has written
the screenplay for the film, tentatively titled «The Many Saints of Newark,» which will be set in 1960s New Jersey.
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade wrote
the screenplay for the film, which is being billed as an action film.
Clowes is writing the screenplay because he wrote the book, as well as
the screenplays for the film adaptations of his other works Ghost World, Art School Confidential, and David Goldberg.
In fact,
the screenplay for the film had been written by first - time screenwriter Adam Cozad as a non-Jack Ryan thriller in 2007 called Dubai, but was later retooled with the help of David Koepp (Premium Rush, Angels and Demons) to conform to the Clancy series.
Unsurprisingly, Clowes is going to write
the screenplay for the film himself, as he did with Ghost World, Art School Confidential, and the upcoming Wilson.
We went on to talk about his long term relationship with Danny Boyle, who directed SUNSHINE from Garland's script, and THE BEACH, from Garland's novel of the same name, though it was not Garland who wrote
the screenplay for that film, and I asked him why that was.
Granik was nomimated for Best Adapted
Screenplay for her film «Winter's Bone» in 2010.