Sentences with phrase «writing screenplays for»

After establishing himself as one of America's best playwrights with «American Buffalo» and «Glengarry Glen Ross,» and writing the screenplays for «The Verdict» and «The Untouchables,» David Mamet made his film directing debut with the carefully constructed crime thriller «House of Games.»

Already a bestselling novelist and one half of a long collaborative partnership with Danny Boyle that included writing screenplays for «28 Days Later» and «Sunshine» after Boyle adapted Garland's «The Beach» in 2000, Garland's debut is unsurprisingly a talky, high - concept sci - fi story set in a contained environment, essentially functioning as a three - hander.

In 1977 he began writing screenplays for exploitation legend Roger Corman's New World Pictures.

Film screenwriter Bill Dubuque used his knowledge that he amassed while writing the screenplays for films such as The Accountant and A Family Man to co-create Ozark, a TV series starring Jason Bateman about a financial planner who launders money for a Mexican cartel in the Missouri Ozarks.

Variety has reported that Paul Schrader - best known for writing the screenplays for such films as TAXI DRIVER and RAGING BULL - has...

Michael also created and wrote every episode of The Tudors and wrote the screenplays for the Cate Blanchett Elizabeth movies.

Lee, who also wrote the screenplay for Frozen, is also known for her writing in Wreck - It Ralph and Zootopia.

He also wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

Graham wrote the screenplay for a pilot episode but it was not picked up for filming.

Fogelman co-wrote the screenplay for Cars (2006), worked on the story for this year's Cars 2, and wrote the screenplay for 2010's Tangled, so he knows both comedy and character.

J.K. Rowling will write the screenplay for Warner Bros., inspired by one of Harry's Hogwarts textbooks.

Kurtzman & Orci & Pinkner will write the screenplay for The Amazing Spider - Man 3 (coming to theaters July 10, 2016), and Kurtzman, Orci, and Solomon will write the screenplay for Venom, which Kurtzman will direct.

Stir of Echoes was based on a novel by Richard Matheson, whose work inspired such disparate films as Somewhere in Time and The Incredible Shrinking Man; it was written and directed by David Koepp, who wrote the screenplays for Jurassic Park and Mission: Impossible.

Rhimes has also written the screenplays for several teen oriented films.

A majestic Mafia epic starring Brando as well as Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall, The Godfather was declared an instant classic, and its stature only grew in the years following its initial appearance.Coppola's next move was to write the screenplay for the 1974 adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Niall Leonard, who wrote the screenplays for both the «Fifty Shades Darker» and «Fifty Shades Freed» adaptations, far too heavily treaded on the dominant - submissive relationship that drove the initial spark between the two protagonists in «Fifty Shades of Grey.»

Diablo next wrote the screenplay for Juno, the unexpected indie hit of 2007, earning her numerous awards including an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) wrote the screenplay for The Wolverine, basing it on the 1982 Wolverine series created by Frank Miller and Chris Claremont.

Raymond Chandler wrote the screenplay for this moody, hard - boiled film noir.

Kushner first encountered the challenge of fact - based drama when he wrote the screenplay for Spielberg's 2005 film «Munich,» which recounted the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Olympics and their aftermath.

Edgar Wright is a great writer / director, having directed «Shaun of the Dead» and written screenplays for movies like «Ant - Man.»

Trumbo wrote the screenplay for a film about the meeting of Cortes and the Aztecs, originally titled Montezuma, in the 1960s.

John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, and Johnny Knoxville wrote the screenplay for the film, which is about a daredevil who designs and operates his own theme park with his friends.

Sanchez previously wrote the screenplays for acclaimed horror films The Orphanage and The Impossible.

Gareth Edwards, who directed Godzilla, will direct the film, with the script coming from Chris Weitz, who wrote the screenplay for About A Boy.

Tina Gordon Chism (Drumline) builds her script on the original story by Antwone Fisher (yes, the same one that wrote the screenplay for the film that bears his name), with a good ear for the lingo and attitudes that represent the area.

Assayas wrote the screenplay for Personal Shopper very quickly after making Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), in which Stewart starred opposite Juliette Binoche.

In fact, it's becoming a family affair as her Irish husband Niall Leonard, is reportedly set to write the screenplay for the sequel to the movie adaption of her erotic novel series.

Considering that you have worked with both Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne in the past, did you write the screenplay for «Spy» with the two of them in mind for the lead roles?

The original story was by John Romano, an accomplished TV writer (Hill Street Blues, Party of Five) who went on to write the screenplays for Nights in Rodanthe and The Lincoln Lawyer.

Working up the ranks, Roberts was assigned to write screenplays for RKO's B - feature unit.

While both long to become writers, it is Orton who achieves fame - his plays «Entertaining Mr. Sloane» and «Loot» become huge hits in London of the sixties, and he's even commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles.

The first trailer for Dark Places, an adaptation for Gillian Flynn's second novel — she didn't write the screenplay for this one, though — was released yesterday and it looks much darker and more true crime - y than Gone Girl.

Among his previous credits before becoming a director, Vizcarra wrote the screenplay for 2002's Django: La Otra Cara, a crime movie about a notorious bank robber which also doubled as an erotic thriller.

According to an article on Variety, there's not one but two writers who are currently in negotiations to write the screenplay for the Pikachu movie and if all goes well, it sounds like the two could be working together.

State of play: Indie icon Paul Thomas Anderson is writing the screenplay for a version of the Italian fable which will star Robert Downey Jr as Geppetto and could yet take on directing duties.

Universal Pictures and Clerks director Kevin Smith wrote a screenplay for it in 1995, but met a dead - end.

Disney and Lucasfilm have just confirmed reports that screenwriter Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3) will write the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode VII.

The association between the two films is not surprising, since «Thank You For Your Service» director Jason Hall wrote the screenplays for both movies, each based on non-fiction books.

Natalie Portman and Jason Schwartzman starred in the project for free, and by the time shooting started, Anderson, Schwartzman, and Roman Coppola had finished writing the screenplay for the short's feature - length sequel, The Darjeeling Limited.

He has just made his first venture into film — writing the screenplay for What's New Pussycat?

She also wrote the screenplay for the underseen Invisible Woman, about the unknown woman alongside writer Charles Dickens (played by Ralph Fiennes).

Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope wrote the screenplay for this movie, which is based on book «The Lost Child of Philomena Lee» by Martin Sixsmith.

William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946 in New York City) wrote the screenplays for Midnight Express (1978) directed by Alan Parker, and for Scarface (1983) by Brian De Palma.

Based on the novel by Edward Bunker, Matthew Wilder writes the screenplay for the film.

As degrees of separation go, John Ridley, the winner of Best Adapted Screenplay for «12 Years a Slave» also wrote the screenplay for «Three Kings».

Condon has a long history with musicals - he wrote and directed Dreamgirls, directed the upcoming Disney live - action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and wrote the screenplays for Chicago and upcoming musical The Greatest Showman, which stars Zac Efron and Hugh Jackman.

Since then, he's been a producer on every X-Men film and wrote the screenplays for X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse.

Tina Fey, who wrote the screenplay for Mean Girls, which starred Lindsay Lohan, and has now written the book for the musical of the same name — which is fabulous.

The fourth movie was only made for TV and was the only one John Hughes did not write the screenplay for.