Sentences with phrase «work as a screenwriter»

Having spent decades working as a screenwriter in the studio system — credited on recognizable titles like «Hope Floats,» «Stepmom,» and «Kate & Leopold» — in the era where studios are through making romance movies, Rogers has reinvented himself thanks to the «I, Tonya» script.

She immigrated to the U.S. in 1926 after graduating from the University of Petrograd and worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

A certain studiousness afflicts even his most accomplished work as a screenwriter and director, a tendency to put his erudition ahead of his instincts.

Huston worked as a screenwriter in the 1930s before getting his first chance to direct with The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Paul Schrader is an American filmmaker whose work as a screenwriter and director hold a significant place in the history of American cinema, including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life in Four...

With Paul Greengrass currently taking a break from the series, helming duties for Legacy have fallen the way of Tony Gilroy, who worked as a screenwriter on the previous Bourne films, and made his directorial debut with the excellent Michael Clayton in 2007.

Garland's work as a screenwriter includes «Dredd,» «Sunshine,» «28 Days Later...» and, significantly, «Never Let Me Go.»

Thank You for Your Service is directed by filmmaker Jason Hall, making his directorial debut after working as a screenwriter / actor for years previously.

D.B. Weiss didn't get around to finishing his second novel, as he was distracted by his work as screenwriter, producer, and sometimes director for HBO's smash hit Game of Thrones.

Before writing American Dervish, I worked as a screenwriter and playwright, and most of my work has dealt with Muslim - American identity, the unique challenges of identifying oneself (or being identified by others) primarily by a religious faith and, in Islam's case, by a faith that has often seen itself (and been seen by others) as «opposed» to the West.

He has also worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and Michael Douglas Productions.

[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.

Recently, he has also worked as a screenwriter for a full - length feature documentary, Project Cancer, Ulay's journal from November to November.

Not exact matches

Anthony Bourdain, moonlighting as a screenwriter for the HBO series Treme, worked Pappy into a scene; Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad, did the same with a bottle of WhistlePig, a rye whiskey bottled in Vermont (rye is like bourbon, except that its primary grain is rye, not corn).

Bill is a comedian and actor and probably best known for his work on SNL (Saturday Night Live), while Maggie is a behind the scenes girl as a director and screenwriter.

Oedekerk began working steadily as a screenwriter, contributing to such box - office hits as Patch Adams, The Nutty Professor, and The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps.

Inspired by a popular video game that was released in 1986, screenwriters Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal and Adam Sztykiel assemble a scenario that enables Dwayne Johnson to be heroic as he endeavors to save his best friend George, with the help of Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), who formerly worked at the evil company run by Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman), and Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a mercenary who begins working for the evil company and then is tempted to the side of the good guys.

Jean - Claude Carrière has worked as a cartoonist, novelist, actor, and director, but more importantly established himself as one of France's foremost screenwriters.

In the vein of Stephen King's THE SHINING, a screenwriter's work seems to come to life (and death) as those around him suffer a similar horrifying fate.

However, as the film builds toward its climax that culminates in moments of violence, Rubin's film, working off of a script by first - time screenwriter Andrew Stern, increasingly overplays its hand, as the scenarios go from relatable to worst - case.

With it previously having looked as if they'd completed their work on the Bond series after five movies, screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are apparently back on board to take a pass at John Logan's screenplay.

Though most of the cast returns, as well as the screenwriters of the first film, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, with Ryan Reynolds also snagging a writing credit, Deadpool 2 recruited David Leitch (one half of John Wick's directorial team) to replace Tim Miller, and the change works.

Garland was already an accomplished screenwriter, having written 28 Days Later and Sunshine for Danny Boyle, and adapting Never Let Me Go for the screen, but his assured work in Ex Machina proves him to be a major new talent behind the camera as well.

Written by the English screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, who many may know as the scribe behind The Full Monty, Boyle has blended this romantic fable with his own, frenetic style and some nods towards a Bollywood aesthetic in order to create the Scottish filmmaker's most accessible work to date.

Catrin (Gemma Arterton) is a secretary who finds herself assigned as a screenwriter, working alongside Buckley and Parfitt (Sam Claflin and Paul Ritter) to write movies for veteran actor Ambrose (Bill Nighy).

Because when you land a deal like Tropper — coming on board as the screenwriter and executive producer, while working with a collaborative director like Shawn Levy — it'd be foolish to question such a lucrative opportunity.

Walter Huston (who won an Oscar for his work, as did son John as both director and screenwriter) is something of a force of morality even as he's a force of nature.

To help her work on the pilot, Notaro reached out to Diablo Cody, as she was a huge fan of the screenwriter's work («My wife and I have seen Young Adult about a dozen times» she says).

Michael Lesslie who worked with Kurzel on Macbeth is listed as a screenwriter but he is probably just doing last minute rewrites.

My love - hate relationship with Noah Baumbach's films lurched firmly into love when Greta Gerwig became his collaborator: as star, as muse, and most importantly as screenwriter, Gerwig's contribution appeared — from the outside, at least — to help push Baumbach's works into a new class, with 2012's Frances Ha and 2015's Mistress America both perfectly - executed chronicles of the modern millennial.

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.

As a screenwriter, his credited work includes Senseless, RocketMan, Scary Movie 3, and Scary Movie 4.

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.

The film, written by first - time screenwriter Pat Rushin, centers on Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), a nervous, very bald man who lives in a church, has spent his life waiting for a mysterious phone call, and works as an «esoteric data» cruncher for the Mancorp corporation.

Dissatisfied with Peckinpah's work, Brando hired Kubrick's Paths of Glory screenwriter Calder Willingham to finish the job, but the apparently strained relationship between Brando and Kubrick forced them to part ways, as Willingham left the project alongside Kubrick.

Rowling's debut as a screenwriter is inspired by a same - named, catalog - style textbook that is supposed to be the work of a «magizoologist» and Hogwarts alum named Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne in eccentric shy - guy mode).

Adapting a mega-selling novel is always tricky, as screenwriters must figure out a way to keep the book's fans happy while transforming the material into a shape that works on the big screen for both...

«I can not tell you, as much as I thought the memoir and Solomon's words and work was special, I had no concept until I saw the movie for the first time,» said the film's screenwriter, John Ridley, accepting the prize in that category as he referred to protagonist Solomon Northup.

Screenwriter Alex Garland has been on my radar for some time writing such awesome works of cinema as The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and the criminally underseen Dredd.

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.

It marks the directorial debut of Oscar - winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who is best known for works such as A Few Good Men, The Social Network, and Steve Jobs.

Over the past couple of years, Taylor Sheridan has emerged as one of the best screenwriters working today.

This is the kind of thing you'd expect on a women's cable network movie - of - the - week, and screenwriter Allison Burnett (working from, what I've heard, a more meta - fictional novel by Charles Baxter; this kind of circumstantial plotting might actually work as meta - fiction) takes a kind of dopey sincerity about the whole thing.

The Second Mother / Brazil (Director and screenwriter: Anna Muylaert)-- Having left her daughter, Jessica, to be raised by relatives in the north of Brazil, Val works as a loving nanny in São Paulo.

Old pals: She walked the red carpet with acclaimed American screenwriter James Ivory, 89, who was nominated for his work on the screenplay and as producer for Call Me By Your Name

by Walter Chaw Taking up right where the first film leaves off (and a familiarity with Clive Barker's Hellraiser is probably necessary for its enjoyment), Hellbound: Hellraiser II, which still lists Barker as an executive producer, boasts of a new director (Tony Randel) and a new screenwriter (Peter Atkins, working from an idea by Barker).

The Cabin in the Woods is the feature directorial debut of Whedon protege Drew Goddard, screenwriter of Cloverfield and Robopocalypse, as well as work on «Buffy the Vampire Slayer», «Alias» and «Lost» for J.J. Abrams.

Screenwriter Alex Garland has worked almost exclusively in the science fiction genre (from «Sunshine,» to «Never Let Me Go,» to «Dredd»), so it comes as no surprise that his directorial debut occupies a similar space, this time focusing on the decades - old debate of artificial intelligence.

WHY: Screenwriter Alex Garland has worked almost exclusively in the science fiction genre, so it comes as no surprise that his directorial debut occupies a similar space, this time focusing on the decades - old debate of artificial intelligence.

More often settling on a cinéma vérité approach that doesn't particularly work, the director says as little with his camera as he and screenwriter Peter Buchman do with their script.