The phrase "a screenplay on a" is not correct and usable in written English as it is incomplete and lacks clarity.
It could be used in contexts where you are discussing a specific screenplay related to a particular topic or theme, but it needs to be completed for proper usage.
Example: "I am currently working on a screenplay on a historical event that changed the course of our nation."
Alternatives: "a screenplay about a" or "a screenplay regarding a".
He was perched in a shaded corner of the beach typing a screenplay on a laptop one recent morning.
It's much easier to write a screenplay on a computer than on a typewriter.
Mrs. Cutajar said that the last she knew of her son, he had been living in Germantown, Md., doing substitute teaching and trying to write a screenplay on a science fiction subject, Mrs. Cutajar said.
Years ago, when you wrote a screenplay on a typewriter, you had to retype the entire page just to make the smallest change; now, on the computer, you can make large and small changes effortlessly, you can fiddle with dialogue, you can change names and places with a keystroke.
"We tried all the other coffeehouses, but there was too much nonsense there," said Caroline Stern, 26, as she and TV director Menachem Binetski, 50, sat at a linoleum-topped table, jotting ideas for a screenplay on a sea of note cards.
Writing a screenplay on an historical subject requires months, yes even years of research before even a word of a screenplay can be written.
The setting and some details have changed — the previous David was a mathematician, writing a scholarly book instead of a screenplay on the Battle of Stalingrad — but the story and the characters are fundamentally the same.
SB: Yes, we've been trying for a screenplay on William Burroughs' book, Queer.
Currently working on a screenplay and a novel, Ms. Crosley recently left the publicity department of Vintage Books to write full time.
Although "Last Action Hero" sprang from humble beginnings--a screenplay written on speculation by novices Zak Penn and Adam Leff that was auctioned in October, 1991--Columbia executives saw it from the outset as a project for Schwarzenegger, who at that time was entertaining a raft of other proposals.
Green has also worked on a screenplay for a film based on superhero The Flash, as well as scripts for Steven Spielberg's Robopocalypse and Moses projects, all of which have yet to see the light of day.
