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 ).

Kevin Munroe is directing and David Berenbaum wrote the screenplay.

Officially, the original story is credited to Graham Baker and Andrew Bennison, while the screenplay was written by Seton Miller and Norman Z. McLeod.

The Knights are led by a man who is approximately 12 feet tall with disproportionately short arms and reindeer antlers inserted into his helmet ( played by Michael Palin standing on a ladder ; the original screenplay suggested that he be played by " Mike standing on John's shoulders ").

The screenplay was optioned by Ron Howard and Imagine Films and is currently under development at Paramount Pictures.

More specifically, a motion picture manuscript is called a screenplay ; a television manuscript, a teleplay ; a manuscript for the theatre, a stage play ; and a manuscript for audio-only performance is often called a radio play, even when the recorded performance is disseminated via non-radio means.

The film is a collaboration between Hayao Miyazaki, who wrote the screenplay, and his son Gorō, who directed the film.

The screenplay by Scott Z. Burns is based on Kurt Eichenwald's book, The Informant, with most of the filming done in Central Illinois ( Moweaqua and Decatur )..

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.

Directed by Stanley Donen, the underlying story of Bedazzled is credited to Cook and Moore and its screenplay to Cook.

In the film version of this play, the screenplay also written by Arthur Miller, Corey is crushed to death for refusing to reveal the name of a source of information.

Sam Peckinpah's nephew is David Peckinpah, who was a television producer and director, as well as a screenplay writer.

Peter Howell, in his review for the Toronto Star, wrote, " It's hard to believe that this is the work of a team that won an Oscar last year for the original screenplay of Fargo.

As of now Paramount is trying to get Without Remorse off the ground-the screenplay has to be written yet, a director has to be picked and it still needs a budget.

Unlike his prior films ( or any that would follow ), The Straight Story was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures after a successful debut at Cannes, was given a G rating by the MPAA and is the only Lynch film for which Lynch himself did not have a hand in the screenplay ( although it was co-written by his recurring associate, Mary Sweeney ).

Until the End of the World () is a 1991 film by the German film director Wim Wenders ; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin.

But what makes it special, apart from the Ephron screenplay, is the chemistry between Crystal and Ryan.

Gelbart's best known screen work is perhaps the screenplay for 1982's Tootsie, which he co-wrote with Murray Schisgal.

Screenwriter Alex Tse is writing the screenplay.

Clarke was so impressed by the demonstration that he used it in the climactic scene of his screenplay for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the HAL 9000 computer sings the same song as it is being put to sleep by astronaut Dave Bowman.

The screenplay, written by Lowell Ganz, is based on the best-selling novel by Billie Letts.

The 1998 film The Faculty, directed by Robert Rodriguez from a Kevin Williamson screenplay, is about a fictional high school at which the faculty and staff become taken over by alien parasites.

The screenplay is an adaptation by Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove of the 1948 play by Maxwell Anderson ; Anderson's blank verse format was retained for only portions of the screenplay, such as Anne's soliloquy in the Tower of London, but then again, Anderson did not use blank verse throughout the play either, only in portions of it.

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.

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.

" 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.

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.

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.

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

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

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

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.

Madero's leadership of the Revolution, presidency and assassination are depicted in at least two Hollywood movies, Viva Villa !, ( 1934 ) directed by Jack Conway, screenplay by Ben Hecht, and Viva Zapata !, ( 1952 ) directed by Elia Kazan, screenplay by John Steinbeck.

The screenplay was written by Hawks, Seton Miller and Dan Totheroh and starred Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Grasses of a Thousand Colors ; he also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre with Andre Gregory, and scripted Vanya on 42nd Street, a film adaptation of Anton Chekov's play Uncle Vanya.

Dan Curtis directed it, and Sam Hall and Gordon Russell wrote the screenplay.

In February 2012, he was approached to write the screenplay for the film adaption of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

He adapted the screenplay from a novel by Dan Wakefield into a film The Washington Post called " a good-humored, heartening update of traditional romantic comedy " unlike the " drab " novel.

Nix co-wrote the screenplay with Dan Futterman, actor and Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Capote, and Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner at Plan B Entertainment were to produce.

Len Blum and Dan Goldberg wrote the screenplay in Toronto and read it to Reitman, who was in Los Angeles, over the phone.

Producers Robert Michael Geisler and John Roberdeau ( Streamers, The Thin Red Line ) optioned the rights in 1998 and commissioned a screenplay by Dan O ' Bannon ( Alien, Total Recall ), but abandoned the project given disappointment in the script.

In 2000 he wrote the screenplay for the movie version of X-Men, and then went on to co-write the screenplay for its sequel X2 with writing team Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris.

The premise of a hostile alien creature hunting a spaceship's crew as it returns to Earth, was the inspiration for screenwriter Dan O ' Bannon's screenplay of Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien.

Anderson, Dan O ' Bannon, and Ronald Shusett wrote the story, and Anderson and Shane Salerno adapted the story into a screenplay.

The screenplay for the film was written by one of Alvah's two sons, Dan Bessie, who has also spent his career working in the film industry.

Director John Carpenter and Dan O ' Bannon wrote the screenplay.

The screenplay of the cutscenes was written by Dan Tanguay.

Various people were asked to write the screenplay, including Steven Knight and Dan Brown himself, however as of March 2012 the role was passed to Danny Strong.

* The Count of Monte Cristo ( 1934, screenplay with Rowland V. Lee and Dan Totheroh )

Dan O ' Bannon, the original writer of the Alien screenplay, has also mentioned Lovecraft as a major influence on the film.

In June 2002 filming began on X2 in Canada with Singer again directing, this time from a screenplay written by David Hayter, Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty.