Sentence examples for existing screenplays from inspiring English sources
But you couldn't escape the sensation that America was using these auteurs as little more than hired guns; cheap and interesting newcomers brought in to see through existing screenplays.
Jordan Pavlin, senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf, also did, even though, it became apparent, she was unaware that it was based on an existing screenplay.
(One fleeting irony is that Fleming's 1961 novel Thunderball, which had started life as a co-written 1957 screen treatment that couldn't find backing, was essentially the novelisation of an existing screenplay).
This is all you need to know if you've been puzzled by the nomination of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" for the Oscar for best screenplay from an existing source.
He became a producer who liked to adapt existing books and plays, often collaborating on the screenplay.
They are conjured by words on a page, directions in a screenplay, or lines of programming code, existing only in imagination or on a screen.
It has the advantage of being based on an original screenplay by the British author, rather than an existing tome, which means director David Yates shouldn't be forced to push too many Gryffindor shapes into Slytherin holes.
Not helping matters is Schultz's underdeveloped screenplay, which fails to give the actors any crackling dialogue or discernible reason for liking each other – other than to give the film a reason for existing.
