Sentence examples for basis for the screenplay from inspiring English sources

The book served as the basis for the screenplay for Roman Polanski's recent movie "The Ninth Gate," starring Johnny Depp.

"Ultimate Rush," Mr. Quirk charged in his suit, was the basis for the screenplay and directorial effort of David Koepp, a prominent screenwriter whose credits include "Spider-Man" and "Jurassic Park".

Ms. Curtis's book was the primary basis for the screenplay, but Mr. Corbijn and the screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh also wove in details of Mr. Curtis's affair with Annik Honoré, a Belgian journalist.

Her 1985 memoir, "Against the Current," is the basis of the screenplay.

The story of the film's genesis is pretty well known: Cameron Crowe went undercover at a California high school, published a book about his experience in 1981, and used that book as the basis for the film's screenplay.

Science fiction – kids love space and science weirdness, so make the most of it by drawing out this interest as the basis for your screenplay.

Szpilman's memoir served as a basis for a screenplay, written as early as 1945 by the Polish writers Jerzy Andrzejewski and Czesław Miłosz, entitled Robinson of Warsaw.

The play, which will appear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music next week, is a fictional account of the first screening of Victor Sjöström's silent film "The Phantom Carriage," for the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish novelist Selma Lagerlöf; her book about her alcoholic but idealized father was the basis for Sjöström's screenplay.

The studio recently used a Hughes screenplay as the basis for the rather awkward Owen Wilson comedy Drillbit Taylor (a sort of junior Superbad), and Hughes is said to have produced reams of new material which has never been published in the period between walking away from Hollywood in 1994 and his death last year.

She wanted to use my screenplay as the basis for the film; Tessa Ross, as ever, had our backs.

His script for American Psycho was never used, producers plumping instead for the screenplay by director Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner which formed the basis of the former's critically-acclaimed 2000 film.