In the intervening years, Payne and Taylor did some script-doctoring (including the Adam Sandler film, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry).
"I'll be shooting one scene and then doing some script revisions, and at the same time I'll be looking at VFX tests," he says.
Responsibilities included doing competitive research, building wireframes, assembling slide decks, defining stories for engineers, and doing some scripting on the side.
After Notting Hill, Curtis did some polishing of a script - on which his old friend Helen Fielding and Andrew Davies had worked - for Bridget Jones's Diary, which (more arrows and overlapping circles on the diagram) also involved Grant, Bevan and Fellner.
She also did some work on the script of "What Women Want," but a Writers Guild of America arbitration eventually ordered sole screen credit to Mr. Goldsmith and Ms. Yuspa, who had originated the idea several years ago with another writer, Diane Drake, under the title "Head Games".
He did some rewrites on the script earlier this year and has now stepped in to help finish directing and editing the project, after Zack Snyder had to step away to deal with a family tragedy.
Terry George was the first director to join the project, and he also did some revisions to the script, but he soon left the project.
"We know we've been very fortunate," Ms. Yuspa said, "and what we'd like to do is keep working in episodic television while doing some film scripts as well".
Carrie Fisher did some uncredited work on the script.
(Payne said he did some uncredited work on the script. "In a way, it's the same process of adapting a book," he said. "You get to have dialogue with the author").. To play the film's obsessive, always difficult father Woody Grant, Payne chose 76-year-old Dern, who is often cast in darker roles.
I've been adapting [Ann Patchett's] novel Bel Canto for a while; I'm doing script after script.
