LOS ANGELES — Six years and a couple of months after two screenwriters filed suit claiming that their screenplay was illegally taken and used as a basis for "The Last Samurai," Judge Philip S. Gutierrez has – partially — spoken.
Over the next couple of months, the playwright and screenwriter has a total of five major projects launching.
He complimented the screenplay by calling the screenwriters Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg "a couple of skilled tool-and-die makers" as well as the acting cast because he believed that they "understand that palpable reality will always trump frenzied fantasy when it comes to getting laughs".
I was a bit surprised to receive an email a couple of days later from a Hollywood screenwriter, saying he had just been discussing a film treatment and thought Julianne Moore a good idea.
At the end of May, Ms. Mol will pack up her belongings and move to Greenwich Village, just a couple of blocks from her fiancé, the screenwriter and director Tod Williams ("The Adventures of Sebastian Cole").
I bumped into the film's screenwriter Margaret Nagle a couple of days ago, who told me she researched the story of the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan extensively and it took her a long time to get the film off the ground as it was a difficult sell to Hollywood.
The screenwriters, David Garrett and Jason Ward, take a couple of stabs at dramatizing Corky's plight, but the picture, under Rob Pritts's anonymous direction, is largely content to let the issues play out as broad slapstick rather than nuanced psychology.
Despite the hype dying down somewhat, some notable things have happened to Quora in the past couple of months, first of all Forbes hired screenwriters Mark Hughes as an Entertainment Writer after observing his very skilled writing on posts on Quora.
She was the Howard Roarke of screenwriters.
