Sentence examples for developed a screenplay from inspiring English sources
The actor John Malkovich and his partner, Russ Smith, optioned Charles Higham's "Howard Hughes: The Secret Life" in 1993 and developed a screenplay by a British playwright.
After studying court transcripts from a late 1990s Melbourne case involving Asian sex workers transported between brothels then deported by the immigration department, McLachlan developed a screenplay about an initially reluctant protagonist who spearheads a DIY investigation into the whereabouts of a missing young woman.
Wyler joined him and together they developed a screenplay about three vets returning to a Midwestern city: an Army sergeant (Fredric March), who has trouble settling back into his life as a banker; an Air Force bombardier (Dana Andrews), who can't find a good job or hold on to his wife; and a young sailor (Harold Russell), who has lost his hands and shrinks away from his girlfriend.
Over the course of two years and through 18 drafts, they developed a screenplay which was described by director F. Gary Gray as "inspired by the original".
Nolan developed a screenplay that told the story in reverse; Aaron Ryder, an executive for Newmarket Films, said it was "perhaps the most innovative script I had ever seen".
In 1939 Schulberg was hired by Walter Wanger to develop a screenplay for United Artists, set at the annual Dartmouth winter carnival.
The pair will elaborate on their unconventional approach to developing a screenplay – writing that involved a lot of drawing – at Sydney's Graphic festival on 11 October.
In August 2002, the veteran director-producer Norman Jewison surfaced as a contender, developing a screenplay based on "The Beauty and the Billionaire," a memoir by Terry Moore, an actress who claimed for decades to have been married to Hughes.
He said that before the attacks on the trade center and the Pentagon, he had been working on developing a screenplay about what he called "my adventure at the twin towers".
