Sentences with phrase «spec scripts of»

This list differs from The Hit List, which instead focuses on the best spec scripts of the year, with an emphasis on new talent and fresh voices.

With 2017 about to slip into our rearview, it's time once again to present the best spec scripts of the year

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The reason why Rogers» script is such a knockout is because of the work he put in before typing a single word — all done on spec.

10 Cloverfield Lane still feels like the spec script it spawned from, trying vainly to pack tense set pieces and striking moments of violence into its simplistic chamber play.

Coming off like a hodgepodge of rejected spec scripts for «The Walking Dead,» Anger of the Dead reveals particularly misogynistic and misanthropic filmmaking.

The initial spec script was written by first - time screenwriter Liz Hannah and she succinctly doles out scenarios of polite society, which Graham herself was very much a part of, self - separating on the basis of gender.

As befits many screen legends, the spec script died alone and in search of validation from a fickle,...

The title alone is enough of an albatross around its neck (all indications are that it was hurriedly tacked onto a spec script), but an out - of - the - blue, utterly gripping trailer that announced the pic's existence a mere two months prior to release ends up its greatest foe.

When their story ends and brings a sense of achievement to the film, though, Fisher chooses to continue the movie as if to remind the audience in a final scene that he really is the most inspiring movie studio security guard who ever wrote a spec script.

Can you talk about the lineage of the film's development, from the initial spec script for «The Cellar» to «Valencia» to the final version?

A goofy, satirical, and warm - hearted spec by Zak Penn and Adam Leff, «Last Action Hero» was soon put through the Hollywood script - doctoring machine and eventually wound up on the desk of Black and his writing partner David Arnott.

In that same Vanity Fair piece, Black's frequent producer Joel Silver said of the spec script boom: «'' In that period, you could read a script and say, «This is a movie.

Spanish filmmaker F. Javier Gutiérrez (Before the Fall) may have lost out on the chance to helm the upcoming reboot / remake / whatever of The Crow, but he's since lined up a deal to helm The Greys - now that Dimension Films has gone ahead and purchased Adam Cohen's spec script for the mysterious sci - fi thriller.

We'll never know that if this movie were called The Cellar (the name of the original spec script) or No Escape (the name of Dan Trachtenberg's short film based in the Portal universe that may have served as the calling card that got him the gig, and there are quite a few parallels between the two projects) or any number of other names it would have been a more satisfying whole.

The film is based upon Melissa London Hilfers spec script, adapted from Adam Cohen's book Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck.

I was also intrigued by his noting one of the things that really interested him when working on the spec «Milk» script was the famed politician's not - so - heroic side.

The commentary offers an interesting retrospective on the making of the movie and its spot in history, starting with its origin as a spec script by Roselyne Bosch, who saw the 500th anniversary of Columbus's famous trip approaching and decided that it would make a great 1992 release.

Nick Yarborough's spec script ended up on the Black List of well - regarded unproduced screenplays and has now been snapped up by production company Anonymous Content.

She's an east coast transplant living in Los Angeles where she spends her time studying improv comedy at Upright Citizens Brigade, writing TV spec scripts, making art, learning to dance, rewording the name of her Counterterrorism Studies major on the bottom of her resume, and hiking in places with easy nearby access to Korean food.

But you have to also realise this didn't come through the Hollywood developments; this is Peter Morgan writing a spec script that was rejected by the studios in terms of financing.

Despite (or perhaps because of) the mania around Holmes at the moment, the film rights are still available, but Moore had already moved on, penning the spec script «The Imitation Game,» about the life of Alan Turing, the genius computer pioneer who helped crack the Enigma code, only to be persecuted after the war for his homosexuality; he ended up killing himself with a poisoned apple.

This led to some other spec script movement, including the action - comedy «Worst Honeymoon Ever,» about a couple, one of whom is a superspy, and «Monster Problems,» a «Zombieland «- ish post-apocalyptic comedy that's set up at Paramount with Shawn Levy producing.

The story behind this film is almost as good as the picture itself: it was written as a «spec script» by 31 - year - old newcomer Liz Hannah and came to the attention of producer Amy Pascal, who gave it to Spielberg in February of this year.

When I first started novelising Touchstone, back in 2011, I adapted it from a couple of TV spec scripts I'd written.

The intense battles of the world war 2 era games are relocated to the sand - blasted alleyways of a middle - eastern dictatorship, with tense spec - ops raids that reign in the action to brief bursts of gunplay, relying on atmosphere and deftly - weaved scripts to keep the player invested.

DEVELOP A CAREER STRATEGY Having a portfolio of strong spec scripts is a great foundation on which to build your screenwriting success.