Sentences with phrase «script doctor»

(He's also been a novelist and short - story writer, something that Ismailos doesn't bring up, though she does get into his sideline career as a Hollywood screenwriter / script doctor for hire on everything from «Piranha» to «Jurassic Park.»)

Too, Drillbit Taylor betrays Hughes's influence in scenes of class warfare, though a moment when the protagonists, running for their lives, stop to ogle a couple of sunbathers is so derivative of his Ferris Bueller's Day Off that only the rabid fandom of script doctors Kristofor Brown and Seth Rogen could account for it.

Less emotionally potent than it wants to be, and feels as if it might have been overmedicated by script doctoring to make it more palatable to Aniston's fan base.

Fisher continued making movies and became one of Hollywood's most in - demand script doctors.

Format your screenplay with this guide, compiled by Michael Ray Brown, one of Hollywood's top script doctors.

But I get the feeling that Odets for the most part had his script dumbed down by the Warner Brothers assembly line of hack script doctors.

This did not deter Stewart from his career as a highly paid script doctor and writer, most notably for the aforementioned Tom Clancy trilogy and most recently a television film, Dead Silence (1997), starring James Garner.

Long a favorite script doctor / screenwriter of David Fincher, having collaborated on Se7en, Fight Club, and The Game, Kevin Walker certainly isn't afraid to go to dark places when it comes to revenge stories.

Apollo 13 (Ron Howard, 1995) Among the most impressive feats of this Ron Howard tour de force is the way that he took an incredibly well - documented true story where everyone knows the ending and made it into such an intensely dramatic nail - biter — thanks, in part, to some reportedly extensive script doctoring by an uncredited John Sayles.

[Movie City News] • Indie filmmaker and noted script doctor John Sayles is -LSB-...]

You do sense, though, that the people behind MIB3 (mainly veteran producer Walter F. Parkes and script doctor David Koepp) were smart enough to let the audience grow up a bit, enough to get the Andy Warhol jokes and one brilliantly weird creation, a delicate alien who can see every outcome at once.

Sneaking in some proto - feminist female agency into her story lines, she becomes the trusted script doctor to Ambrose Hilliard, a semi-famous actor who is cast in Catrin and Buckley's latest production, about the evacuation at Dunkirk.

Script doctors Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement (Across the Universe) subsequently chime in to take pride in beating the screenplay into a workable shape but express discomfort over how their taut title sequence was marred by the picture's awful title song.

The show starts with a round of Script Doctor where the hosts comment on a Harry Potter and the Cursed Child film, Jackie Chan receiving an Oscar, Ghostbusters Extended Edition, Deathstroke appearing in Justice League, and some musings on Warcraft 2.

This one is written and directed by State alumni and renowned script doctors Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, who both show up doing their best Father Guido Sarducci impressions as two chain - smoking, Satan - fighting priests.

Techland are Polish so they've got some excuse when it comes to the script, although only up to a point when you realise they clearly didn't spend any of the original game's profits on a decent English script doctor.

Tomorrowland has hanging about it, in other words, all the elements of disaster: winky meta references, lack of narrative cohesion, desperation - born mistakes, bad screenwriter / Nick - Riviera - bad script doctor Damon Lindelof as Bird's co-author... and yet it's good somehow.

The dialogue, by three writers (David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson)-- and God knows how many other uncredited script doctors — seems to have been stolen from all the worst parts of a couple of hundred recent movies.

Hailing from Seattle, Alan Averill, a former «video game script doctor,» wrote a draft of «The Beautiful Land» as a part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a movement that challenges writers to complete a novel in 30 days.

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(No script doctor whom he claims worked on the story could ever extract him from this film's bones.)

Here is a family that entrenched itself in the American imagination by campaigning on symbolism, and Chappaquiddick hits its better strides when it turns the camera on the relationship between its stars and script doctors.

I recall interviewing Amis 20 years ago, back when I still had fully functioning leg joints, about a planned film starring Gary Oldman and written and directed by Adam Brooks, with Amis as «a script doctor performing minor surgery».

Some script doctoring would have helped rescue a film that seems to have too much to say, yet underserves a solid cast (though Til and Payne are too old to play high schoolers).

According to director Rian Johnson, she acted as a script doctor for the film.

While Mr. Bay admitted that part two of this trilogy was lacking much (an understatement), it appears his efforts to improve part three come not from a script doctor, but rather by tossing in some familiar Hollywood faces: John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Patrick Dempsey and Ken Jeong.

Fisher had a long career as a script doctor in addition to her onscreen work.

«Coyote Ugly» (2000): This raunchy NYC flick received the Fisher touch at the height of her career as a script doctor.

Frank is known for being a script doctor helping on Godzilla, Saving Private Ryan, and Minority Report.

I think about Charlie Kaufman's Charlie Kaufman in Adaptation suggesting to the spot - lit, posturing Robert Mckee — script doctor and industry narrative guru — that he is a writer attempting to create a story where nothing much happens:

He could become a script doctor for Hollywood action movies.

It drags a bit in the middle, and there's about five percent of the script that never recovered from the script doctoring scars inflicted in the past five years of rewrites, but for the most part, «Tower Heist» is a perfectly enjoyable film... far more enjoyable than it has any business being.

Charter schools, which are rarely unionized, have grown in popularity; several states, including Alabama, North Carolina, Michigan, and Kansas, have passed laws forbidding school districts from collecting union dues through payroll deductions; other states, such as Wisconsin, have limited the unions» bargaining rights to wages only; and tenure protections have been attacked through pathbreaking litigation in California (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, Fall 2014).

If courts can strike down teacher tenure laws as a violation of the rights of poor and minority children (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, Fall 2014), why not use the results from CCSS assessments to go after the drawing of school boundaries in a way that perpetuates economic school segregation and denies children equal opportunity?

He «doesn't think much good will come» from the recent Vergara decision, in which a California judge ruled that teacher tenure and seniority laws violate low - income, minority students» right to equal education opportunity (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, Fall 2014).

Josh Dunn and Martha Derthick wrote about the earlier ruling in «Script Doctors: A Compelling Play on the Wrong Stage?»

The unions suffered an embarrassing defeat when the plaintiffs won at trial — but the judge's ruling was heavy on political rhetoric and light on legal reasoning (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, fall 2014).

Christopher Vogler, in The Writer's Journey, explains how he utilizes Campbell's theory of «the hero's journey» in his work as a Hollywood «script doctor.»