Sentences with phrase «set as the screenwriter»

Sam Shepard has spent a lot of time on movie sets as the screenwriter as well as the star, so he knows what he's talking about.

Rowling was set as the screenwriter of this brand new prequel franchise, and we'd be getting a new series of films set in the Wizarding World that A. Don't try to reboot or rework the brilliant Harry Potter saga and B. Offer new insights into characters we only heard about in the original series.

Not exact matches

Screenwriter David H. Steinberg offers up eye - rollingly over-the-top comedic set - pieces that become more and more desperate as the movie unfolds (ie a character is raped by a moose), yet it's the absence of compelling characters and the almost uniformly hackneyed nature of the various storylines that inevitably cements American Pie Presents The Book of Love's undeniable downfall.

British TV veteran Barker and his screenwriter (novice Howard Himmelstein) set Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan) among Jazz Age expatriates cold - chillin» on the Italian coast, and the result is not quite as dishy as one might hope, 1930s fashions and Mediterranean countryside notwithstanding.

Lee Unkrich, his co-director Adrian Molina and their team of screenwriters have conceived Coco as a salute to Mexican culture — the voice cast is almost entirely Latino, as are the settings.

The two also became acquainted with novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala around this time; Jhabvala would become irrevocably associated with the two, acting as the screenwriter for all but a handful of their films.The trio's first films were set in India, dramas concerned with questions of cultural interplay, personal identity, and physical and emotional isolation.

In «A Perfect Getaway», the screenwriter and his wife, unlike the four men in the 1972 film starring Burt Reynolds, get their deliverance not just from the primitive setting, but from each other, as well.

These fill a total of one hour, 56 minutes and 32 seconds as it provides comments from Wick, Fisher, production designer Alec Hammond, 2nd AD / VFX supervisor James Madigan, author Veronica Roth, set decorator Kathy Lucas, screenwriters Brian Duffield and Akiva Goldsman, supervising art director Alan Hook, producer Pouya Shahbazian, stunt coordinator Darrin Prescott, transportation coordinator Denny Caira, 2nd unit stunt coordinator Wade Allen, executive producers Barry Waldman and Todd Lieberman, fight coordinator Jeremy Marinas, special effects coordinator Bruno Van Zeebroeck, armourer Gregg H. Bilson Jr., property master Sean Mannion, composer Joseph Trapanese, and actors Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Octavia Spencer, Kate Winslet, Miles Teller, Ray Stevenson, Jai Courtney, Ansel Elgort, Jonny Weston, Maggie Q, Keiynan Lonsdale, Zoe Kravitz, Naomi Watts, Daniel Dae Kim, Emjay Anthony, Suki Waterhouse, and Ashley Judd.

Though set in Chekhov's time, Mayer's approach, along with screenwriter Stephen Karam, renders this story of love and longing feels startlingly contemporary, particularly Elizabeth Moss» turn as Masha, who drowns here sorrows over unrequited love in both alcohol and a loveless marriage to a man who adores her.

In a collaboration with frequent screenwriter Jonathan Raymond (the scribe behind her preceeding pair of features), the feature charts the progress of three couples — played by Blue Valentine's Michelle Williams and The Fourth Kind's Will Patton, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day's Shirley Henderson and Motherhood's Neal Huff, and Me And Orson Welles» Zoe Kazan and Knight And Day's Paul Dano — and their collective children as they follow the path set by their uncertain titular guide (Barney's Version's Bruce Greenwood).

He's also a director who has flirted with mainstream success in the past, so it may come as no surprise to learn that Refn is reported to be teaming up with screenwriters Neil Purvis and Robert Wade — co-writers of five James Bond outings including Skyfall and Spectre — on an as - yet untitled Asian - set action thriller.

set to romantic horns, and then immediately segues into bald - faced audience - pandering via a conversation in which Hollywood screenwriter and aspiring novelist Gil (Owen Wilson) badmouths his future father - in - law's (Kurt Fuller) Tea Party convictions as those of a «demented lunatic.»

Screenwriter O'Neill and director Mangold clearly can't be bothered with story coherence, as they never bother to explain how we get from each action set piece to the next.

In the hours surrounding teaser trailer, Trank and screenwriter Simon Kinberg talked with Collider, Empire Online and Yahoo! Movies about their frame of mind for the film and setting it apart from what they see as the commodified superhero action genre.

Along the way, we touch on the abandoned film project that Lee was working on with screenwriter Michael Arndt, how The Book Of Life affected this production, the evolution of the idea from the initial spark to the finished film, how Adrian Molina got involved in the project, how Lee Unkrich went from editor to director and how he edits his own films, how Darla got a credit as «Digital Angel» on the original Toy Story, hiding easter eggs in an international setting, and working with Michael Giacchino.

A script by first - time screenwriter Andrew Sodroski from the 2013 Hollywood «black list» of unproduced screenplays, Holland, Michigan is a contemporary dark comedy set in what Morris describes as «this strange city on the Western coast of Michigan.»

As part of their big 25th anniversary celebration, Miramax has re-released this underrated film in a new Special Edition, complete with a set - top game, a behind - the - scenes special, two featurettes: «Inside Professional Poker» and «Champion Poker Tips,» plus two audio commentary tracks, one by the Dahl, the screenwriters and Norton, and one by professional poker players.

A number of other major restorations will have their World Premieres at the Festival: Carol Reed's atmospheric Graham Greene adaptation of OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959), set in Cuba at the start of the Cold War, makes timely viewing as US / Cuba relations thaw; Ken Russell's reworking of D.H. Lawrence scandalous classic WOMEN IN LOVE (1970) stars Oliver Reed, Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and shows two couple's contrasting searches for love, and was restored by the BFI National Archive working alongside cinematographer Billy Williams; A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) is directed by Fred Zinnemann from a script by great British screenwriter, Robert Bolt from Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More, a perfect companion piece to Wolf Hall; Henry Fonda stars in the ripe - for - discovery WARLOCK (1959), a seething study of vengeance and repressed sexuality in a Utah mining outpost; and Bryan Forbes» THE RAGING MOON (1971) starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman in a tender story between two young people in wheelchairs which was ahead of its time in its attempts to change attitudes to disability.

Wan and his screenwriters very purposefully hit many of the same beats as the first film, presenting us with a set - up that often feels too similar, and disappoints by comparison because O'Connor's character isn't given nearly the depth of Lili Taylor's in the original.

Director Baltasar Kormà ¡ kur («The Deep») and screenwriters William Nicholson («Unbroken») and Simon Beaufoy («127 Hours») are slow out of the gate (there are many details to and players to set in motion), but once in motion they deftly unfold the perfect storm of bad weather, miscommunication, and fateful decisions that led to the tragedy in a way that sneaks up on the viewer much as it does the characters.

Screenwriter and producer Diablo Cody's second feature film, an ersatz horror story set in a small town high school, provides the first real test as an actor for internet - manufactured hottie Megan Fox, until now lost among giant robots and special effects in the Transformers franchise.

Screenwriters Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en) and David Self (Road to Perdition) have moved the setting from the 1940s back to the 1890s and turned Talbot into a Shakespearean actor, for no apparent reason other than the opportunity to show him in a gaslit performance as Hamlet.

Spartacus — This classic of Hollywood's obsession with films set in Ancient Rome started as an Anthony Mann film and ended up directed by Stanley Kubrick and feels like a weird combination of those two very different directors and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

And if you missed our previous coverage, be sure to check out my interview with screenwriter Michael Bacall as well as Brendan's set visit coverage including 21 things to know with clips and new images, and interviews with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, Dave Franco, Brie Larson, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and producer Neal Moritz.

Director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Lee Hall blend the bureaucratic hysteria of political sitcom The Thick of It with the light - heartedness and sentiment of films such as Philomena or the Mumbai - set rom - com, The Lunchbox.

Fast & Furious and Fast Five director Justin Lin is set to return as is screenwriter Chris Morgan.

Setting the events to a ticking clock is a bit of a stroke of genius on screenwriter George Gatin «s behalf as this provides the perfect framework for a movie about fast cars driving fast that has little to offer outside of the temptation of increasingly sleeker, and more European, cars set against an Imogen Poots stripping down layers by the ten minute marker.

Besides its new setting, Fantastic Beasts marks another first for Rowling — it's her first screenplay for one of her stories, and as such the movie suffers from issues any first - time screenwriter might encounter, namely pacing and narrative structure.

Soderbergh and screenwriter Rebecca Blunt set us up by presenting brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan (Channing Tatum and Adam Driver) as a couple of lovable losers.

The amount of story trying to be told in Deadpool 2 slows the film's pace ever so slightly in the first act, as screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick set the table with a lot of plot points that asked to be explored.

He and screenwriter Reiko Yoshida (working from Aoi Hiragi's graphic novel) do prove to be just as creative and imaginative as the maestro in this whimsical tale of a bored teenage girl whose brave rescue of a cat sets off a chain of increasingly unusual events.

Having already established himself as a novelist with the cult classic «The Beach» and as a screenwriter by penning the likes of «28 Days Later,» «Sunshine» and adaptations of «Never Let Me Go» and «Dredd,» Alex Garland made his directorial debut with 2015's «Ex Machina,» a story set in the not - too - distant future about a programmer (Domnhall Gleeson) sent by his technological genius boss (Oscar Isaac) to administer the Turing test to a new and advanced form of artificial intelligence, a beautiful humanoid robot (Alicia Vikander).

So reads an early passage in Ian McEwan's resoundingly melancholy 2007 novel «On Chesil Beach,» set mostly in 1962, which has been respectfully adapted by McEwan, acting as screenwriter, and Dominic Cooke, a renowned English theater director making his movie debut.

After scoring as the screenwriter of Animal House and Meatballs, Harold Ramis made his directorial debut with this hilarious comedy set at an exclusive golf course.

Sweet Country / Australia, Director: Warwick Thornton (Kaytej Nation), Screenwriters: Stephen McGregor, David Tranter (Alyawarra Nation)-- Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self defense and goes on the run as posse gathers to hunt him down.

Passenger Pigeons Director and Screenwriter: Martha Stephens Set among the Eastern Kentucky Coalfields, Passenger Pigeons quietly interweaves four separate story lines over the course of a weekend as the town copes with the death of a local miner.

Screenwriters: Jean - Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant Drawing on one of France's most popular screen stars, the incorrigible Dany Boon from the comedy megahit Bienvenue chez les Ch ’ t is, as well as a cast of some of the country's best - known actors, Jeunet turns on the afterburners in this searing piece of romantic filmmaking set against the storm clouds of warring arms dealers.

This version stars Will Smith as the final man, and while he does his best to inject some real emotional connectivity to his character — and hence the story — he's sideswiped by screenwriters Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman, who set up an intriguing first act, lessen it with a hollow, unexciting, special - effects - heavy game of cat - and - mouse in the second, and completely blow the whole thing with the third.

Lewis» writing takes a fantasy world but sets it on a very solid religious and philosophical base, and while the most overt representation of that foundation is here, screenwriters Adamson, Ann Peacock, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely have lessened the substance of the story to the point that the film operates almost exclusively as a visual adaptation.

Max Landis, the self - styled brat screenwriter of Chronicle and the underrated American Ultra, makes his feature directing debut with Me Him Her, a movie as scraggly and eager as a teenage cover band fumbling through its first set.

Brie Larson is set to make her MCU debut as the character in the very near future, yet with screenwriter Nicole Perlman confirming plans to rework the Cap's origin tale from extra-terrestrial to something more earthly, it * might * have been missed.

Once this not - unpromising situation is set up, director Brian Gibson (What's Love Got to Do with It) and screenwriter Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs), working from a novel by George Dawes Green, are at a loss as to where to go.

20th Century Fox has unearthed five new posters for its upcoming Egyptian - set horror film, The Pyramid, produced by Alexandre Aja (The Others, Horns), the directorial debut of prolific horror screenwriter Grégory Levasseur (who scripted The Hills Have Eyes and Maniac remakes, as well as Mirrors and P2), making his directorial debut.

20th Century Fox has released a new featurette for its upcoming Egyptian - set horror film, The Pyramid, which is produced by Alexandre Aja (The Others, Horns), and directed by prolific horror screenwriter Grégory Levasseur (who scripted The Hills Have Eyes and Maniac remakes, as well as Mirrors and P2), making his directorial debut.

Trumbo (R for profanity and sexual references) Historical drama, set in the late Forties, recounting the blacklisting of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) and some colleagues after being branded as Communists because of their progressive political views.

It's set in a strangely beautiful post-apocalyptic world, and it features talent such as Andy Serkis of Lord of the Rings, and Alex Garland, the screenwriter for 28 Days Later.

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