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.

As David Peoples was rewriting the screenplay he consulted his daughter who was involved in microbiology and biochemistry.

It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson.

The screenplay was written by David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein based on a story originally created by Art Buchwald.

After abandoning Wicked Stepmother and with no further film offers ( though she was keen to play the centenarian in Craig Calman's The Turn Of The Century and worked with him on adapting the stage play to a feature length screenplay ), Davis appeared on several talk shows and was interviewed by Johnny Carson, Joan Rivers, Larry King and David Letterman, discussing her career but refusing to discuss her daughter.

The screenplay was written by David Newman and Robert Benton.

Weir contributed to the screenplay along with its original author Christopher Koch, and playwright David Williamson.

She had a romantic role in the BBC television film Langrishe, Go Down ( 1978 ), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by Harold Pinter from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played one of three spinster sisters living in a fading Irish mansion in the Waterford countryside.

With Providence ( 1977 ), Resnais made his first film in English, with a screenplay written by David Mercer, and a distinguished cast that included John Gielgud and Dirk Bogarde.

The screenplay was credited to Hilary Henkin and David Mamet and is based on the novel American Hero by Larry Beinhart, however, the film differs greatly from the book.

David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $ 100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay.

* David Auburn-Playwright and screenplay writer, best known for his award winning play ( and adapted screenplay ) for Proof.

* Michael David Brown-assistant professor of creative writing at Ohio University, author of both the novel Under Heat and the screenplay for the movie of the same title.

Also highlighted and previewed were two original graphic novels: Lovecraft ( based on a screenplay by Hans Rodionoff and adapted by Keith Giffen with art by Enrique Breccia ) took the conceit that H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos creatures were real, to paint a highly fictionalized biographic portrait of the titular author, while Howard Chaykin & David Tischman's Barnum!

Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with a screenplay written by David Webb Peoples.

Though Spielberg receives sole credit for the script, he was assisted by Paul Schrader, John Hill, David Giler, Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, and Jerry Belson, all of whom contributed to the screenplay in varying degrees.

* The Sting, screenplay by David S. Ward ( 1973 )

The screenplay was adapted by Ford and David Scearce.

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

David Seltzer's original screenplay was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen and for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture.

Laurents ' screenplay allegedly was unsatisfactory, and newly hired director David Lean tried to improve it with associate producer Norman Spencer and writers Donald Ogden Stewart and S. N.

But when New Line sent David Fincher the screenplay to review for his interest in the project, they accidentally sent him the original screenplay with the head-in-the-box ending.