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Spider - Man franchise producer Matt Tolmach is overseeing the adaptation, with War of the Worlds screenwriter David Koepp penning the screenplay.

In a special edition of the Game Informer podcast, actor and screenwriter David Hayter talked about his «humiliating» replacement as Metal Gear's leading man and how he really feels about the series creator who wanted him gone.

This enhanced eBook contains the full text of the bestselling novel, and exclusive movie content such as: five video clips from the film; the director's movie shooting script; video interviews from cast and crew — including Anne Hathaway and author / screenwriter David Nicholls — about their connections between the book and the film; and a reading group guide featuring full - color movie stills throughout.

With no jolts nor a sense of a haunting atmosphere, the lapses in logic in rookie screenwriter David Self's hole - ridden script are made all the more clear.

But Scott and screenwriter David Scarpa (who based his script on John Pearson's book) push their sans - culottes narrative to such an absurd degree that the actual villains here — the mafia kidnappers — not only largely escape Scott's ire, but one of them (the French actor Romain Duris) is portrayed as a nice guy who at one point even saves Paul from further harm.

While the costumed alter ego that can do «whatever a spider can» gives the film and the comic its name, Raimi and screenwriter David Koepp have wisely focused what has made the character such an enduring icon: the man behind the mask, Peter Parker.

On Disc One, there are theatrical trailers for both films; 2 TV spots for Death Wish II (including a partial one); a TV spot for Death Wish 3; the vintage featurette Action II: The Making of Death Wish 3, Runaway Train, and House; and a set of Mark Hartley - directed interview outtakes from the Electric Boogaloo documentary, including screenwriter David Engelbach, actress Robin Sherwood, producer Bobby Roberts» son Todd Roberts, and actor Alex Winter.

Scott and screenwriter David Scarpa, adapting from John Pearson's book, struggle to find a solid pace and even tone for the first 20 or so minutes, showing Getty's rise to power and how things came to be in his immediate family before 1973.

Esteemed screenwriter David Mamet's (Glengarry Glen Ross, State and Main) dialogue sparkles, while director Brian De Palma (Body Double, Scarface) has a script that perfectly complements his cinematic virtues.

Big time screenwriter David (James Marsden) and his wife Amy (Kate Bosworth) ditch Los Angeles so he can take some time to write at Amy's remote childhood home in the Deep South.

The third and final chat features screenwriter David Koepp and Oscar winning screenwriting legend William Goldman.

The story from screenwriter David Koepp is very straight - forward and contains just the right amounts of twists and turns.

Actors had to return for quick reshoots, and screenwriter David Scarpa had to make sure the script pages were ready for Plummer.

These are questions that Jim Sheridan's film raises, and screenwriter David Benioff (working from Susanne Bier's Danish film of the same name) lets these characters live out their uncertain circumstances and rising tensions.

But it has to be admitted that Elle (adapted by screenwriter David Birke from Philippe Djian's novel «Oh...») could never be mistaken for a Hollywood production.

What both trades seem to agree on is that screenwriter David Koepp, who had been hired to write the sequel, won't return, and that Universal hasn't yet figured out what to do for a follow - up, and likely does want to emphasize the role of the emerging star Hemsworth.

Most importantly, screenwriter David Koepp and Fincher do not cheat the basic intrigue of the premise and keep the proceedings entirely indoors.

Take Stay for instance, the latest from director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) and screenwriter David Benioff (25th Hour), which features busy McGregor and busy Naomi Watts as a couple in love and dealing with her (Watts's Lila) attempted suicide, the ordeal of which McGregor's character (psychiatrist Sam) has somewhat unscrupulously helped her through.

Screenwriter David Kajganich told the NYT that he believes the movie handles the murders of Longo's wife and children, which Longo was convicted of committing, in the best way possible.

To cut right down to the chase, Impostor is a space age version of The Fugitive (which is no surprise as screenwriter David Twohy (Pitch Black, Waterworld) worked on both screenplays), with Sinise as Dr. Kimball out to save his own ass in a world out to get him.

Playwright and screenwriter David Mamet (The Untouchables, The Postman Always Rings Twice) takes his first crack at direction with modest success, mostly due to his skills as a writer than anything else.

According to Cosmicbooknews.com, a DC Entertainment source revealed that Christopher reckons Wes - who stars in his next film Interstellar - would fill the Batsuit perfectly, while screenwriter David S Goyer is thought to be a fan of Jake Gyllenhaal.

Back in 2013, it was announced that producer Mark Gordon and his company had secured the film rights to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair and had hired Life of Pi screenwriter David Magee to write the script.

It appears that actor / screenwriter David Hayter, who's done the English language voice for Solid Snake...

«People keep telling me they miss Peter Parker - well, this is a change for them to put their money where their mouth is,» Rambo screenwriter David Morell will be teaming up with Klaus Janson.

Producer Michael Alden announced on his site that «Speech,» which Oscar - winning screenwriter David Seidler originally conceived as a stage play, -LSB-...]

The 2012 edition was hosted by screenwriter David Hayter, probably better known as the voice of Metal Gear Solid's sneaky protagonist Solid Snake.

Another element tangling the viewing experience is the fact that the creative team behind the film is entirely male: director Paul Verhoeven, novelist Philippe Djian, and screenwriter David Burke — who, interestingly, specializes in true - life horror films, often succeeding in humanizing the serial killer (Dahmer, Gacy).

Well now screenwriter David Goyer says that might not be the case at all.

Screenwriter David Loucka adapts from a story by Jonathan Mostow, and both are equally at fault for why this movie doesn't work.

Solid Snake voice actor and Hollywood screenwriter David Hayter dishes what he's heard went down.

Cribbed by screenwriter David Nicholls from his own mega-selling novel — the kind of fast - digesting doorstop that's been a ubiquitous presence on London public transport for the past two years — the line is one of those reductively heart - on - sleeve sentiments that Richard Curtis sharpened to a blunt point in his 1990s heyday; when Hathaway drops it, you can hear the film straining for its own place in the pop culture quote bank, somewhere between «Is it still raining?

In news that will surely disappoint someone, Indiana Jones 5 screenwriter David Koepp tells Entertainment Weekly that Shia LaBeouf won't appear in the next chapter of the franchise.

After all, Kenan has previously directed dark - tinged films for younger viewers (Monster House, City of Ember), while screenwriter David Lindsay - Abaire is best known for child - friendly scripts (Robots, Inkheart, Rise of the Guardians, Oz the Great and Powerful).

It's true that screenwriter David Franzoni (Amistad, Gladiator) has discarded or downplayed the most romantic elements of the Arthurian legend — there's no quest for the Holy Grail, no Camelot, and Merlin is just a weird old king instead of a sorcerer — but much of what he's put in his script comes from the oldest versions of the myth, not from new scholarship based on fresh archaeological findings.

Screenwriter David S. Goyer — who wrote all three Blade films as well as co-writing Dark City (1998) and the upcoming Batman Begins — now takes over the directorial duties.

Figuring out who the rapist is among a host of wily suspects is hardly any more difficult than solving a Scooby Doo caper, but Verhoeven and screenwriter David Birke continually insist on dedicating a chunk of screentime to a silly campaign of misdirection where so much evidence is stacked so loftily against an employee in Michèle's video game company that anyone with even a cursory knowledge of mystery storytelling couldn't possibly fall for the trick.

The smartest move made by returning screenwriter David S. Goyer and new ringer Chris Terrio (Argo) is building the movie around the collateral damage of Man Of Steel's climax, restaged from the ground - level perspective of Gotham's playboy with a secret, Bruce Wayne.

Screenwriter David Seltzer penned the original script and this one, and he obviously has no intention of expanding on his original concept, staying the course of the original movie pretty much exactly.

Previously, screenwriter David Nicholls had adapted his own novel, Starter for Ten, Blake Morrison's And When Did You Last See Your Father?

Hitting movie theaters this weekend: Drive — Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston I Don't Know How She Does It — Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Kelsey Grammer Straw Dogs — James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård Movie of the Week Straw Dogs The Stars: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård The Plot: L.A. screenwriter David Sumner (Marsden) relocates with his wife (Bosworth) to her hometown in the deep -LSB-...]

«Brothers» screenwriter David Benioff took the project in 2007 and has done a fair share of -LSB-...]

If The King's Speech risks being too cute by half in its depiction of how this royal without a voice comes to find one in his nation's hour of need, Hooper and screenwriter David Seidler neatly avoid that trap by training their sights on a much bigger subject — namely, how the wireless waves of radio affected seismic changes to the nature of politics and society at large, turning public figures into performers, and narrowing the distance between classes.

He had screenwriter David Seltzer remove all supernatural elements, like witches and demons, making it a request that nothing happen in the script that couldn't happen in real life.

Here we get comments from Spielberg, actor Tom Cruise, screenwriter David Koepp, and executive producer Paula Wagner.

Howard and veteran screenwriter David Koepp («Jurassic Park») grant this comely overachiever who's «crazy about puzzles» a hint of intrigue by initially parading her obsessive - compulsive disorder — she meticulously lines up items in her apartment after Langdon knocks them out of place.

It features Spielberg, Ford, Allen, screenwriter David Koepp, producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, director of photography Janusz Kaminski, stunt coordinator Gary Powell, production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas, special effects coordinator Dan Sudick, animal handler Jules Sylvester, 1st AD Adam Somner, costume designers Mary Zophres and Bernie Pollack, and actors Ray Winstone, Cate Blanchett, and Shia LaBeouf.

Inspired by Krystyna Chiger's memoir «The Girl in the Green Sweater» with references to Martin Gilbert's «The Righteous» and Robert Marshall's «In the Sewers of Lvov,» Canadian screenwriter David F. Shamoon takes dramatic license to fictionalize Socha's inner turmoil.

Winner: Actor Doug Jones, director Morgan Mead and screenwriter David Hamilton for «My Name Is Jerry»

Narrating Buddy's story is his adoptive father, an elf played by the great Bob Newhart (sadly, screenwriter David Berenbaum forgot to write him any good lines); Ed Asner plays a rosy - cheeked Santa with the expected gusto.