Sentences with phrase «success as a screenwriter»

[4] He then headed to Hollywood to seek work as a screenwriter; there he wrote screenplays and worked as a waiter, but success as a screenwriter eluded him.

Not exact matches

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.

Subsequent Career: Providing something of a template for screenwriters who want to make the jump, Steven Zaillian has continued as a high - profile screenwriter long after his directorial debut, only occasionally dipping his toe back in directorial waters, and never with the same straightforward success of his first time out.

Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a screenwriter who, fresh off the success of Being John Malkovich, finds himself courted as the scribe of choice for the adaptation of a literary flavour - of - the - month.

But Donner is as big a factor in the film's success as his principals or his screenwriter, tweaking its genre blueprint and putting his own stamp on it.

With the movie award season at full blast, Zero Dark Thirty stands as one of the year's two strongest competitors, poised to earn chances to repeat the success director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal had on their last contemporary war drama,

Shane Black (Robocop 3), who plays Hawkins, the bespectacled commando with a gift for raunchy jokes, would go on to greater success the same year as the screenwriter for Lethal Weapon, kicking off a long and lucrative career as a screenwriter and, later, an action director in his own right.

Greta Gerwig, its most gifted actor, is now an Oscar - nominated director and screenwriter; Joe Swanberg remains prolific; the Duplass brothers have found success as producers and writers; Andrew Bujalski is still underappreciated.

It's a modernization of Arthur Schnitzler's sexual - morality play «Reigen» (a k a «La Ronde») adapted by acclaimed screenwriter Peter Morgan, who's had most of his success with semi-fictionalized biographies such as «Frost / Nixon» and «The Damned United.»

The end result is a better - than - average thriller that bodes well for Edgerton's future endeavors as a screenwriter, with Felony's palpable success cemented by a final shot that couldn't possibly be more perfect.

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.

Bryan Cranston stars as Blacklisted and beleaguered screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, but this tale of two trailers suggest slightly different Trumbos: the first trailer portrays the titular writer as a rich man with radical ideas who is then broken down by accusations of being a Communist before he finds screenwriting success again; the new trailer starts off with the hard - luck story of Trumbo before playing up the fight against Congress and the war against censorship.