How does a screenwriter in Hollywood approach the challenge of bringing one of the most beloved characters of the Old West to the silver screen when legendary Pirates of the Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski ask you to write the script?
“The way to approach this was to not be overly precious or careful about it, ...
The marketing for the new action thriller, White House Down, staring Channing Tatum seems to focus more on his dirty white tank top than the plot itself. What does screenwriter James Vanderbilt think of all the hunky hubbub around his new movie? He loves it!
This conversation about costuming with the writer who penned The Amazing Spider-Man and ...
In the screenwriting world, writing a movie with Pixar is like taking a trip to the moon. Deep in the recesses of the “brain trust” – as Monsters University writers Robert Baird and Dan Gerson call the folks who sit in on story development at the exclusive animation studio – is where all the magic happens.
At the time Baird and Gerson ...
In the screenwriting world, writing a movie with Pixar is like taking a trip to the moon. Deep in the recesses of the “brain trust” – as Monsters University writers Robert Baird and Dan Gerson call the folks who sit in on story development at the exclusive animation studio – is where all the magic happens.
At the time Baird and Gerson ...
How could the man who wrote Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures, like totally, and also write a crime thriller with elaborate plot twists such as Now You See Me? Meditation is his answer. With every project screenwriter Ed Solomon takes on, he rediscovers the craft of writing and what drew him to it in the first place.
Now You See Me is the ...
By Jenna Milly
How do you wake up with a hangover and decide this will be your last one? That’s the question screenwriter Craig Mazin faced when sitting down with director Todd Phillips to write the last and final edition of drunken comedy series, The Hangover Part III.
“We wanted to end it, and we wanted it to feel like there was closure,...
Hal Croasmun of ScreenwritingU interviewed best selling author and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith about his movies DARK SHADOWS, and ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, and his path to A-List in the movie business.
In this interview, Seth talked about:
- How he went from an unknown writer to a major player!
- His secret to finding the deeper ...
By Jenna Milly
Would you like to make a movie about a group of body builders who become extortionists and killers…? It’s not the kind of question a studio exec would likely say yes to… unless it’s based on a true story.
Pain & Gain, the new black comedy-slash-crime movie, is about just this topic. Based on a series of articles from a ...
By Jenna Milly
Would you like to make a movie about a group of body builders who become extortionists and killers…? It’s not the kind of question a studio exec would likely say yes to… unless it’s based on a true story.
Pain & Gain, the new black comedy-slash-crime movie, is about just this topic. Based on a series of articles from a ...
By Jenna Milly
Adapting a film from a book is one thing, but what do you do when you’re asked to adapt a foreign film into a Hollywood production? Screenwriter Justin Zackham, best known for writing the heartfelt dramedy The Bucket List, decided taking on this kind of adaptation for his first foray into the world of writing and directing.
The ...
By Jenna Milly
The screenwriters who brought you the hilarious murder caper Horrible Bosses in the summer of 2011 are at it again with The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley co-wrote the new comedy about a tired magician who has to find his mojo again when everyone he works with gives up on him.
The film stars ...
Writing the origin story to The Wizard of Oz was a longtime passion for screenwriter Mitch Kapner. Too bad everyone in Hollywood told him he was crazy as soon as he mentioned the idea.
“It’s an idea I had and would talk about years and years and years ago,” said Kapner. Studio executives would often ask in meetings if Kapner had a passion ...