Sentences with phrase «time screenwriter david»

Big time screenwriter David (James Marsden) and his wife Amy (Kate Bosworth) ditch Los Angeles so he can take some time to write at Amy's remote childhood home in the Deep South.

Director Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects) and first - time screenwriter David Hayter have included too many plot threads to follow in the film's 93 minutes.

Of course, this still might be somewhat forgivable if De Bont and first - time screenwriter David Self didn't openly acknowledge their inspirations for the film — the wonderfully creepy 1963 movie of the same name, as well as its source, the novel «The Haunting of Hill House.»

But the adaptation, by first - time screenwriter David Self, is an amalgam of stupid choices.

Not exact matches

Among the writers who agreed to Lette's request are Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Time author Mark Haddon, Oscar - winning playwright and screenwriter David Hare, TV show host and writer Stephen Fry and novelist and critic Margaret Drabble.

Director David Fincher («Alien3») and first - time screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker generally handle the material quite well, but so much of the film is so distasteful that it is difficult to recommend.

It's instantly clear that Howard, along with returning screenwriter David Koepp, has learned nothing from the relative failure of both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, as Inferno, for the most part, chugs along at a lackadaisical pace that's compounded by an overlong running time and surfeit of underwhelming subplots.

In Deadpool 2, which is also technically an X-Men movie, director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde) and returning screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick decide the sequel should basically mirror the original, except this time with a pissed - off kid and a much - anticipated villain thrown into the mix.

I doubt the filmmakers, including seasoned director Mick Jackson (whose varied resume includes 1992's «The Bodyguard» and 2010's HBO biopic «Temple Grandin») and screenwriter David Hare («The Hours») knew that their timing would be so perfect eight years ago.

Screenwriter David Seidler wrote a stage treatment «as a way to work out the relationships among the characters for himself», according to his manager Jeff Aghassi in an interview last year with The New York Times, though the screenplay is believed to have come first.

Director Michael Sucsy («The Vow») and screenwriter Jesse Andrews («Me and Earl and the Dying Girl»), working from the novel by David Levithan, give Rhiannon plenty of time to ask most of these questions.

Film Details: Title: Our Brand Is Crisis Director: David Gordon Green Release Date: October 30, 2015 Running Time: 107 mins Language: English, Spanish Shooting Location (s): Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Louisiana USA Principal Cast: Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Ann Dowd, Joaquim de Almedia, Scoot McNairy Screenwriter: Peter Straughan Production Companies: Participant Media, Smokehouse Pictures Distributor: Warner Bros Official Site Trailer

Highly acclaimed playwright and screenwriter David Mamet (The Untouchables, Glengarry Glen Ross) takes the helm as director for the seventh time, and while he's certainly done better as a writer, this is the film where he finally hits his stride as director.

Director: David Wain; Screenwriters: Michael Showalter, David Wain; Starring: Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Ellie Kemper, Ed Helms, Cobie Smulders; Running time: 83 mins; Certificate: 15

Here again, Glazer and his screenwriters, Louis Mellis and David Scinto, are toying with genre conventions: Normally, convincing an ex-con to do «one last job» takes a few minutes of screen time, and the rest is devoted to planning and execution.

Following the release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the world has gone mad yet again for British author - and first - time screenwriter - J.K. Rowling and her wildly original Wizarding World already familiar to moviegoers by way of the Harry Potter franchise; as directed by frequent collaborater David Yates.

In fact, the screenplay for the film had been written by first - time screenwriter Adam Cozad as a non-Jack Ryan thriller in 2007 called Dubai, but was later retooled with the help of David Koepp (Premium Rush, Angels and Demons) to conform to the Clancy series.

And it's an ugly and scary new world too, certainly since the appearance in late 2001 of the pre-9 / 11 - produced Ocean's Eleven: screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien (who together wrote Walking Tall and Runaway Jury) have some fun tweaking the new and surreal security theater that we all must participate in from time to time these days, in which a cheap uniform connotes a certain trustworthiness, however unwarranted it may be.

Jung's rise up the ranks and his various indulgences in all a big - time drug dealer's life has to offer give Blow an inevitable resemblance to other dark dramas that touch on drug use; with its voiceover narration and the presence of Ray Liotta (who plays Jung's working class father Fred), GoodFellas is a clear influence on Demme and screenwriters David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes (adapting the book by Bruce Porter).

David Freed is an instrument rated pilot, screenwriter and a former Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times.