In the screenplay by Anthony Hinds, the main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Parson Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney's upcoming film version, and Captain Cleggs screenplay follows the novel Doctor Syn and the screenplay of the 1937 film closely with the exception of a tightening of the plot.

While the screenplay closely follows Hornby's novel, it omits scenes involving drug use and has a different ending.

He is also known to treat the completed screenplay with great fidelity, to the extent that some of his screenwriters have remarked on how closely the finished film has realised their intentions.

The screenplay closely adhered to the original script, the only major change being Arnold Boult's conversion from British to Canadian so Spencer Tracy wouldn't have to struggle with an accent.

The screenplay followed the book closely with some minor changes and some characters omitted: in the adaptation there was only one archeologist, there was no doctor, Jane was a stewardess and in the end Poirot does not match Jane with young archeologist as mentioned in the novel and some other minor changes ( such as in the TV adaptation, Poirot takes Japp to Paris, whereas in the book he takes the French Surete detective and also in the book most of the characters have come from Le Pinet where they have been enjoying some time at the casino, whereas in the adaptation the characters have been at a tennis match in Paris.

Its 1982 remake The Thing by director John Carpenter, from a Bill Lancaster screenplay, stuck more closely to Campbell's original story.

The screenplay by James Poe follows the novel fairly closely.

Robert Rossen's screenplay follows Brown's book very closely.

In 1983, he produced, directed, and wrote the screenplay for 2010 ( 1984 ), collaborating closely with author Arthur C. Clarke ( 2010 ).

The script was returned to Tenser a few days later, with a more detailed report from the same examiner, which described the screenplay as " a study in sadism in which every detail of cruelty and suffering is lovingly dwelt on ... a film which followed the script at all closely would run into endless censorship trouble.

Writer David M. Meyers praised the script " The screenplay, which hews closely to Jim Thompson's heartless novel, is unusually tight, spare, and well constructed.

Janet Maslin, film critic for The New York Times, did not like the screenplay nor the performances of the actors and wrote, " The surprise is not that Mr. Milius has made such a resoundingly awful film, but rather that he's made a bland one ... the movie often seems even more uneventful than material like this need make it, and Mr. Milius's attention to his actors focuses more closely on their pectorals than on their performances.

The screenplay for the film, which turned the operatic recitatives into spoken dialogue, was very closely based on the opera and was written by N. Richard Nash.

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

With the support of Otto Preminger, Trumbo was credited for his screenplay for the 1960 film Exodus, adapted from the novel by Leon Uris.

Rumble Fish was based on the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

The film was based on a screenplay written by Colin Higgins and published as a novel in 1971.

In 1985's novel The Vampire Lestat by author Anne Rice ( who penned Interview ... s screenplay and the 1976 novel of the same name ) suggests that its antihero Lestat inspired and nurtured the Grand Guignol style and theatre.

Awards are offered in the following genres: drama / screenplay, essay, the novel, short fiction, Nonfiction, and poetry.

These awards are classified under two categories, Graduate or Undergraduate, except the novel and drama / screenplay, which are combined categories.

High Sierra, a 1941 movie directed by Raoul Walsh, had a screenplay written by Bogart's friend and drinking partner, John Huston, adapted from the novel by W. R. Burnett ( Little Caesar, etc .).

* Being There ( novel and screenplay, 1979 )

The book was filmed by Fritz Lang in 1955 and released under the same name, with a screenplay adapted by Jan Lustig from the novel, and starring Stewart Granger.

The screenplay was adapted by cult film director Edward D. Wood, Jr from his own novel.

Dick's screenplay differs from the source material, featuring numerous scenes that are not in the novel.

In the case of Forrest Gump, the screenplay by Eric Roth had more proverbs than the novel by Winston Groom, but for The Harder They Come, the reverse is true, where the novel derived from the movie by Michael Thelwell has many more proverbs than the movie.

He also wrote a screenplay from the novel The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones, a draft that evolved into the 1961 Marlon Brando film One-Eyed Jacks.

Produced by Daniel Melnick, who had previously worked with Peckinpah on Noon Wine, the screenplay was based on the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm by Gordon Williams.

The screenplay was based on a novel about a platoon of German soldiers in 1943 on the verge of utter collapse on the Crimean Peninsula.

Peckinpah accepted the job but reportedly hated the convoluted screenplay based upon Robert Ludlum's novel ( which he also disliked ).

During the second half of 2011, Gilliam wrote a screenplay, co-authored by Paul Auster, for a film adaptation of Auster's novel Mr. Vertigo.

* Darren Aronofsky's film The Fountain ( as well as the graphic novel based on the screenplay ) centers on immortality given by the Tree of Life.

The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel The Brick Foxhole by screenwriter and director Richard Brooks.

Loew's theater presents `` Where The Boys Are '', an MGM picture produced by Joe Pasternak and directed by Henry Levin from a screenplay by George Wells.

Sue Grafton contributed to the screenplay of the former.

), a movie based on a character from the Mexican comic Los Supermachos of Mexican cartoonist Rius, who co-wrote the screenplay.

The screenplay was by Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. Gardner Sullivan, with uncredited work by Walter Anthony and Milestone.

Its screenplay was written by Dave Sheasby and the show was directed by David Hunter.

In that same year Lerner also wrote the Oscar-winning original screenplay for An American in Paris, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

After the good experience of writing the screenplay for a film called Easy Wheels, Sam and his brother Ivan Raimi decided to co-write the film together.

MGM noticed the video was performing well since " trendy twenty-somethings were throwing Showgirls irony parties, laughing sardonically at the implausibly poor screenplay and shrieking with horror at the aerobic sexual encounters.

In the early-1960s, Jones and his wife Dorothy wrote the screenplay for the animated feature Gay Purr-ee.

Over his career, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director and a nomination for best screenplay.

Cronenberg stated that while writing the screenplay for Naked Lunch, he felt a moment of synergy with the writing style of Burroughs.

Trumbo was publicly given credit for two blockbuster films: Otto Preminger made public that Trumbo wrote the screenplay for the smash hit, Exodus, and Kirk Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of Spartacus.

On December 19, 2011, The Writers Guild of America announced that Trumbo will get full credit for his work on the screenplay of the 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday, sixty years after the fact.

Years after his death, he would be honored with a statue in front of the Avalon Theater on Main Street, where he was depicted writing a screenplay in a bathtub.

" In Mexico he wrote 30 scripts under pseudonyms, such as Gun Crazy ( 1950 ), based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor, who was the front for the screenplay.

Shortly thereafter, Kirk Douglas made public Trumbo's credit for the screenplay for Spartacus ( 1960 ), an event which has been cited as the beginning of the end of the blacklist.