Sentence examples for based on screenplays that from inspiring English sources

The Canyons sees the creator of American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction (both realised well on the big screen, but based on screenplays that Easton Ellis did not have a hand in) writing directly for a film for the first time.

The plays, "Shower" and "The Life of Juanita Castro," were based on short screenplays that Mr. Tavel had written for Warhol films.

But at the same time it's based on screenplay by Welles, not the movie.

Steven Spielberg revealed in March that he has begun work on a TV series based on that screenplay in conjunction with the late film-maker's family.

The officer said he gave Boal a copy of the book "Kill Bin Laden that he signed with apologies, since Boal wrote the screenplay based on the book that became invalid once [bin Laden] was killed".

It's based on an unproduced screenplay that's been sitting on his shelf for a few years, and returns to his love of sports, specifically baseball.

An independent publisher has agreed to publish a novel based on a movie screenplay that was, in turn, adapted from the falsified Holocaust memoir "Angel at the Fence".

This was an amazing and incredible film to work on and a really extraordinary director to work with, on a subject and a topic and a book that the screenplay was based on, that was just truly phenomenal.

(Quickie novelizations were a nice way for horror and science-fiction writers to make some bread; based on original screenplays, these adaptations often contained scenes that had been omitted from the final cut, making them proto- DVD extras" of your favorite film).

If the plot doesn't sound amazing enough on it's own, it's being directed by Paul Verhoeven (of Showgirls and that movie where the woman gets a bucket of shit poured over her head fame) based on a screenplay written by David Loughery (of that movie where Beyonce sends people threatening emoticons fame).

The most obvious is that good filmmakers make good adaptations no less than they make good movies based on original screenplays.