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.

** Note: Marker helped produce and contributed to the screenplay for this, perhaps the greatest of all documentary films ( Film Comment ).

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.

" 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.

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

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.

In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.

; Payment for 30-year-old screenplay

On November 4, 2005, the Los Angeles Times reported that Rohrabacher was paid 23, 000 dollars for a thirty year old screen play of his ". At issue was whether the producer paid him for the screenplay or for the introductions to congressional and federal officials.

Carpenter originally wrote the screenplay for Escape from New York in 1976, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.

Neal Moritz was to produce and Ken Nolan was to write the screenplay which would combine an original story for Plissken with the story from the 1981 movie, although Carpenter has hinted that the film might be a prequel.

George Lucas and Walter Murch incorporated an Eliza-like dialogue interface in their screenplay for the feature film THX-1138 in 1969.

In 1965, Coppola won the annual Samuel Goldwyn Award for the best screenplay ( Pilma, Pilma ) written by a UCLA student.

When Williams was offered the screenplay for Jack he said he would only agree to do it if Coppola agreed to sign on as director.

Tamblyn played the supporting role in Neil Young's 1982 Human Highway while also credited for screenplay and choreography.

The Human Factor ( ISBN 0-679-40992-0 ) is an espionage novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1978 and adapted into a 1979 film, directed by Otto Preminger using a screenplay by Tom Stoppard.

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.

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.

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 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.

I wrote the screenplay and no studio wanted to make it " because, according to Carpenter, " it was too violent, too scary, too weird.

The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original screenplay drafts as Bruce Lee revised much of the script himself, including having written and directed the film's opening Shaolin Monastery fight sequence.

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

Most critics felt that the screenplay was poorly written, not funny, and the dramatic material was unconvincing and unbelievable.

In 1974, he wrote the screenplay for The Great Gatsby, and in 1979, he was executive producer for The Black Stallion.

The former — whose screenplay was written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, disguised by a front — features a bank holdup sequence shown in an unbroken take over three minutes long that proved widely influential.

In an essay supporting the selection of The Rock, Roger Ebert, who was strongly critical of most of Bay's later films, gave the film a 3 1 / 2 out of four stars, calling it " an action picture that rises to the top of the genre because of a literate, witty screenplay and skilled craftsmanship in the direction and special effects.

The later screenplay draft by Cyril Hume renamed the film Forbidden Planet, because this was believed to have greater box-office appeal.

The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo ( credited to Millard Kaufman because of the Hollywood Blacklist ), and MacKinlay Kantor was based upon a short story by Kantor published in 1940 in The Saturday Evening Post.

Breen said that any screenplay, no matter how well done, would likely bring condemnation of the film industry " from decent people everywhere " because of " the fact that it stems from so thoroughly questionable a novel.

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

Godard's first act was to ask Bitsch to write a screenplay, saying that producer Michelin had been pestering him for a script because he needed it to help him raise finance from backers in Germany ( where Constantine was popular ).

Nimoy's hiring of Meyer was not only beneficial because Meyer knew the material and could write fast ( having produced The Wrath of Khans screenplay in twelve days ), but if Meyer was to direct it would offset any acrimony from Shatner, whose ire would have been aroused if Nimoy returned to direct his third Star Trek feature after The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home.

But because of the success of Norma Rae ( 1979 ), with the same star ( Field ), director, and screenplay writing team ( Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch ), and with Field's new production company ( Fogwood Films ) producing, Columbia agreed.

But because of the success of Norma Rae ( 1979 ), with the same star ( Field ), director, and screenplay writing team ( Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch ), and with Field's new production company ( Fogwood Films ) producing, Columbia agreed.

On July 13, 1951, the Breen office contacted Herbert and advised him his screenplay was in violation of the Motion Picture Production Code because of its " light and gay treatment of the subject of illicit sex and seduction.

Preston Sturges was hired to write the screenplay around late November 1933, but was removed from the project a week later because he hadn't made sufficient progress.

Producers recruited science fiction writer Nigel Kneale to write the original screenplay mostly because Carpenter admired his Quatermass series.

Many responded that the screenplay should be based on just one Gospel, and that Luke should be used because of its completeness.

He wrote the screenplay for the 1980 film, but he is credited by his real first and middle name, Sidney Aaron, because of disputes with director Ken Russell.

On August 7th 2012, Del Toro mentioned in an interview with Collider that he had submitted his final draft to Disney, and that " they like the screenplay " because " their reaction to the draft was good ".

He hired Rudy Wurlitzer to write the screenplay because, according to Cox, " He understands American guys and the mad impulse that drives certain Americans to be great men.

Wallace began his screenplay with Denham and the party at the island, called Vapor or Vapour Island by Wallace because of the volcanic emissions.

Additionally, some fiction sites such as FanFiction. Net have banned the posting of MSTs, either because they do not allow " script format " works ( i. e. formats that are not standard for short stories, novellas, or novels, including those in teleplay or screenplay format, or those meant to imitate chat room conversations ), or because they contain copyrighted material not written or owned by the MST's creator, or because the sites in question simply do not want to deal with upset authors getting angry about MSTings of their work.

He complimented the screenplay by calling the screenwriters Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg " a couple of skilled tool-and-die makers " as well as the acting cast because he believed that they " understand that palpable reality will always trump frenzied fantasy when it comes to getting laughs.

Negri also declined the role because she felt that the screenplay was not ready and that Montgomery Clift, who was slated to play the Joe Gillis character at the time, was not a good choice for the character.

" Pygmalion was eventually adapted by Lerner and Loewe as My Fair Lady, but this was possible only because they were, at least in theory, adapting a screenplay co-authored by Shaw, with rights controlled by the film company.

Similarly, material from the screenplay or filmed scenes that are cut from the final production may still be present in a novelization, often because the novel is completed for publication while the film is still being edited for release.