Sentences with phrase «screenplays written only»

Adapting Jane Austen is an unexpected move for Stillman, whose first four films used original screenplays written only by him.

Not exact matches

A majestic Mafia epic starring Brando as well as Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall, The Godfather was declared an instant classic, and its stature only grew in the years following its initial appearance.Coppola's next move was to write the screenplay for the 1974 adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Peralta would only write the screenplay, and obviously he knows the history and characters well enough for us to give him the benefit of the doubt in terms of accuracy.

First, an almost flawless first time original screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, whose only other writing credit was for his adaptation of the Icelandic film that became the Mark Wahlberg hit «Contraband.»

It is well known that he imagines characters and a situation, casts actors to play the characters, joins with them in workshops where the dialogue and the plot take shape, and only then writes the screenplay.

When I meet Reed at Sundance she was with the film's director, Catherine Hardwicke, who told one of those Only in Southern California stories: Hardwicke was dating Reed's father, Reed was having problems, Hardwicke suggested she keep a journal, she wrote a screenplay instead, Hardwicke collaborated on a final draft and became the director.

It's a strange feeling when you feel a film comes across like a neutered imitation of a recognisable artistic voice, only to realise come the end credits that the film's screenplay was actually written by that person.

Ruby is played by rising star Zoe Kazan, who is not only Dano's real life girlfriend but also wrote the screenplay.

In a first for the studio, Linda Woolverton was hired to write the screenplay - before her, Disney's animated features had depended only on storyboarding.

THE BURIED SECRET OF M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN ZERO STARS / **** Image A Sound A written by Melissa Foster directed by Nathaniel Kahn PAULY SHORE IS DEAD 1/2 * / **** Image C Sound B Extras D starring Pauly Shore, Jaime Bergman, Todd Bridges, Rick Ducommon screenplay by Pauly Shore and Kirk Fox directed by Pauly Shore by Walter Chaw The only thing separating M. Night Shyamalan from Pauly Shore is that Shyamalan actually has a couple of classic modern suspensers under his belt and Shore doesn't have anything on his resume that could be remotely considered indispensable.

The fourth movie was only made for TV and was the only one John Hughes did not write the screenplay for.

«Cut ahead to 2001,» Black said to Vanity Fair, sounding like he's writing the screenplay version of his life, «when I finished a script for something called «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» and all of a sudden not only is it not «Read in the office while we run a clock on you,» it was «I submit «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» and maybe in a week or two they get back to me.»

I was eager to see this film, not only because it's based on a Phillip Roth book, but also because the director that adapted the book to a screenplay format also wrote The Ice Storm and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Emma Thompson reprises the magical character she created in 2005's «Nanny McPhee,» based on Christianna Brand's «Nurse Matilda» books, not only starring but also writing the screenplay, as she did with the original.

Oddly, Juice marks Dickerson's only writing to date, as he alone is billed with story and shares screenplay credit with the less experienced Gerard Brown, who has almost never worked in Hollywood again.

«Wilson,» directed by Craig Johnson («The Skeleton Twins»), is also based on a graphic novel by Clowes, who wrote the film's screenplay, and it's driven by the same spirit of reflexive adolescent alienation — only this movie isn't about kids.

Kristin Scott Thomas, Gosling's co-star in «Only God Forgives,» was written into the screenplay in order to make the story more tangible.

Since the movie was written and directed by Seth Rogan and Evan Green, I can only imagine that as they wrote the screenplay, they taylored each of their friends to play a caricature of themselves based on reality.

The screenplay is actually written by a relative novice in the industry, Michael Sloane, whose only other previous screenplay to see the silver screen was a total throwaway Hollywood Boulevard II.

The screenplay written by Mackenzie («Young Adam»), Bash Doran («Boardwalk Empire»), James MacInnes, Mark Bomback and renowned Scottish playwright David Harrower takes place over the extraordinary historic year when Robert the Bruce fights to regain control having been crowned King of Scots, only to be defeated in a surprise attack and made an outlaw by the English King and his occupying forces.

This year's list included seven actors of color, three African American writers (including the late August Wilson, who wrote the screenplay for Fences), and a Best Director nomination for Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), who becomes only the fourth black director nominated in the Oscars» history after John Singleton, Lee Daniels, and Steve McQueen.

Nine years later, the gang returned for 2004's Before Sunset, with Hawke and Delpy not only reprising their roles but also writing the screenplay with Linklater and Krizan (the quartet received an Oscar nomination for their joint effort).

Not only has she shepherded her two - part sequel play to the West End, but she has also written the screenplay for this spin - off prequel, which is set some 70 years before Harry was born.

The screenplay, written by McQueen and Enda Walsh, has many good moments, such as the clean clothes the Brits force the Irish to wear to receive visitors (Otherwise they are naked, in protest of wearing criminals» clothes), a masturbation scene wherein one prisoner, in a cell smeared with feces, somehow feels embarrassed to waken his cellmate with the sounds of his self - pleasure, the scene of how the Brits need to powerwash the excremented cells, only to have the prisoners returned to the cells and break their cots and other furniture in protest — again inflicting almost as much brutality on themselves as the Brits do.

The second was June's 16 Wishes, which not only featured Ryan as familiar talent in front of the camera, but also worked from a screenplay by Annie DeYoung, who has written nothing but DCOMs since 2006's Return to Halloweentown.

The screenplay was written by newcomer David Tully, of only a German TV movie called The Village.

It's Got: Excellent performances from Kate Winslet and Kirsten Dunst, and a surprisingly restrained (and therefore tolerable) one from Jim Carrey; visual effects that manage to be both low - key and gobsmacking at the same time; and a funny, twisted, bleak, sentimental screenplay that could only have been written by Charlie Kaufman.

Ernest Cline not only wrote the novel on which the movie Ready Player One is based, but he also wrote the screenplay.

As opposed to Drive, which was based on a good screenplay by Hossein Amini and based, in turn, on a (reportedly) good novel by James Sallis, Only God Forgives is an original property written by Refn, and it appears, for all intents and purposes, to be his version of an Asian revenge movie.

Liz Hannah was hired in October to write the screenplay for Only Plane in the Sky, about the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when President George W. Bush and his administration were hurtled from a press op in a Florida classroom onto Air Force One — then considered the safest place in the world to be.

American Graffiti — If you had only seen George Lucas's last three movies, you'd be amazed to watch this one and see that not only can he actually make movies about humans, he can even write convincing dialogue for them to speak (he did have help with the screenplay, but that didn't help in Episodes 2 and 3).

It's healthy for directors to try new things, if only to stay fresh and develop their skills, just as it's probably a good idea for respected prose writers, such as Eggers and Vida, to write a screenplay now and again.

He's not the only starry - eyed doofus who has combined delusions of grandeur with total cluelessness about the effort required to actually write a novel or screenplay and then get it in front of the public.In the thread of the same post at Writer Beware, children's author Kathleen Duey talked about the unsolicited - plot - idea people who want to share the profits 50/50.

Only by reading these books and with practice will I hone my skills in writing Screenplays with deep, rich characters.

The ER phenomenon started as a dusty, 20 - year - old, 150 - page screenplay that Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton had written based on his own experiences as a medical resident in a busy ER, and only wound up at NBC somewhat by default, as Warren Littlefield remembers it.

Written by Rick Eid based on a screenplay by the late Crichton, Genes, from WBTV and CrichtonSun LLC, is described as a high - concept medical soap about a brilliant doctor who saves his dying patient's life using a miraculous gene therapy — infused with his own DNA — only to realize the side effects have turned her into a dangerous sociopath.

I'm struggling to understand, and am not only writing a screenplay (which scientists might like to dismiss as «not science»), but am also working on an anthropological paper about GW representation (as fact & fiction).

The ER phenomenon started as a dusty, 20 - year - old, 150 - page screenplay that Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton had written based on his own experiences as a medical resident in a busy ER, and only wound up at NBC somewhat by default, as Warren Littlefield remembers it.