He was known to have access to top - line producers,
so young screenwriters were always willing to write a first draft (or second, or third, or tenth), then let him put his name on the script.
Not exact matches
Not that anyone could ever really buy what
screenwriters Peter Dowling and Billy Ray (Suspect Zero, Shattered Glass) offer up as the reason behind the
young girl's supposed disappearance, as there are
so many holes in the plot that it is a wonder the plane didn't depressurize.
Or maybe it's just the prevailing penchant for back stories that impelled
screenwriter Etan Cohen to rewind the clock
so that Smith's Agent J spends much of the film in 1969 doing his best to save the life of the
young Agent K, while we ponder the hitherto unremarked realisation that, yes, Josh Brolin really does suggest a
younger Tommy Lee Jones, to cite both the franchise newbie and the veteran who share that role.