Sentences with phrase «screenplays written over»

But how many know that he's also behind a couple of the best screenplays written over the last decade?

Not exact matches

The screenplay, by Peter Morgan, who also wrote The Queen, is very strong and, at just over two hours, the film does not outstay its welcome.

Over the next 16 years, until Biró's death in 1948, he shared with Korda the intellectual control of the company that they'd both founded and, in conjunction with such writers as Arthur Wimperis and Miles Malleson, wrote the screenplays to a string of notable movies.

The problem is the screenplay, written by first - timer Dorothy Blyskal, who can't overcome the daunting hurdle that would face anyone trying to adapt this incident into a film: there's no story to tell until the thing happens, and once it happens, it's over in a few minutes.

If there's one thing that's genuinely intriguing about this entry, it's the way that the screenplay (written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher L. Yost) acknowledge how much Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has changed over his own movies, as well as the ones throughout this cinematic universe that feature him.

He then appeared in a number of psychedelic films, including 1967's The Trip and the following year's Monkees feature Head, and earned a new audience among anti-establishment viewers.With friends Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson in front of the camera, Hopper decided to direct his own movie, and secured over $ 400,000 in financing to begin filming a screenplay written by novelist Terry Southern.

Lenny Kravitz, (Cinna) Katniss costume designer is back, along with the extremely funny Stanley Tucci as the over the top television host, Caesar Flickerman) Simon Beaufoy and Michael deBruyn wrote the screenplay based on the novel «Catching Fire» by Suzanne Collins.

The movie is credited to two directors, Wanda Tuchock and George Nichols Jr., but film scholar Jeremy Arnold believes Tuchock, who also wrote the screenplay, should be regarded as the film's sole auteur: «This one has Wanda's fingerprints all over it.»

Glancing over the back of the film I was a bit surprised I hadn't heard of the film, especially since the screenplay was written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr. — the scribe largely responsible for shaping the world of the 1960's Batman TV series.

It's fairly obvious that most of the problems lie in the screenplay and the last movie's bad dialogue from the fast - paced riffing between the humans to the robot's lines, carries over to this one, this time solely written by Ehren Kruger.

With a small, but fabulous cast that includes Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli, and Irina Björklund, The American weaves a spell over its audience with stunning Italian scenery — namely the mountains of Abruzzo - and beautiful close - ups that reveal more about character than its screenplay, written by Rowan Joffe, does.

Robespierre, who wrote the screenplay with her «Obvious Child» collaborator Elisabeth Holm, works well with her excellent cast, even if you sense she'd rather simply turn her camera on Slate's pipsqueak - voiced energy and let Dana's regressive antics run roughshod over everything.

Charlie Kaufman — «Synecdoche, New York «Having written some of the defining screenplays of the early noughties (ok fine, «Being John Malkovich» was 1999) Charlie Kaufman became something of a brand - name screenwriter — one whose own input rivalled that of the directors he's most associated with (Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze) for authorial ownership over the finished film.

And my idea was I wanted to write a screenplay that charted the relationship of these middle - aged folks over the course of a year.

Hazanavicius, who also wrote the screenplay, is unquestionably sincere, but subtlety is not his forte, to say the least; The Search rolls over its thinly conceived characters like a Russian tank, flattening each one into a didactic position paper.

They fight over what the characters should say in the screenplay they're writing, and then they simply fight: She tells him his breath stinks, and he tells her she's getting a lard butt.

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.

Taylor Sheridan wrote the somewhat perfunctory screenplay, with Stefano Sollima (known for helming Italian TV crime shows) taking over directing duties from Denis Villeneuve.

The screenplay, initially written by Paul Webb but significantly revised by director Ava DuVernay, picks its starting and ending points shrewdly, but is acutely aware that the struggle began long before the film starts, and when the film ends, it is far from over.

The English - language screenplay, in which new dialogue by American voice - over actors had to painstakingly match the mouth movements of the animated characters speaking Japanese, was written by Karey Kirkpatrick.

Directed by David Mackenzie Written by Taylor Sheridan (screenplay) Starring: Dale Dickey, Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham Shout out to Tom over at digitalshortbread for putting this on my radar... Continue reading →

William Friedkin directs the screenplay by Tracey Letts, who wrote the original stage play on which this is based (I saw it back in 1999 in an off - Broadway theater so small that I got splashed when the table flipped over), with no small amount of gusto.

Written by Charlie Kaufman and based on his own troubles in Hollywood, Adaptation starred Nicholas Cage in the dual roles of Charlie and Donald, twin brothers who fall out over conflicting screenplays.

Disliking Brian DePalma, I like to ascribe all the elements of this movie that I like to David Mamet, who wrote the screenplay before DePalma took over and butchered it.

Its other presumed best shot was in the Screenplay category, but the recent dustup over its (absurd) designation as an Adapted Screenplay that was, in fact, adapted from... itself (essentially, the feature script was written, then Chazelle adapted it into a short to sell the film, but since the short came out first, it's considered adapted from the short, even though the short was technically adapted from the unshot script.

After a great deal of build - up — including two interviews with the late William Peter Blatty, who wrote the novel and the screenplay of «The Exorcist» — we get down to business, with the woman sitting in a chair as Father Amorth prays over her.

T. C. Southwell has written over thirty fantasy and science fiction novels, as well as five screenplays.

two books I recommend over and over for writers is Save The Cat and Writing Screenplays That Sell.

He's pretty sure he has some traits of autism, because he's been constantly working and obscenely prolific for the entire duration, writing over a hundred screenplays and TV pilots, which he's adapting into forthcoming books, because these days very few people are willing to turn throw money at him to put his... [Read more...]

His film for which he wrote the screenplay, C U @ ED's, was featured in over 15 film festivals around the country, winning the «Audience Award» at the 2013 DC Film Fest.

Daniel had been researching the basis for a screenplay about Maine and secessionists, and not being a lawyer, he wrote all sitting members of the U.S. Supreme Court for advice on how to depict a legal dispute over secession in his film to be.