It had won a shelf full of awards and the screenplay is the sample I've used to get every gig since, from Billy Elliot to work with Steven Spielberg.
Joe Maggio's video feature "Virgil Bliss" is set in a halfway house in a dilapidated section of Brooklyn, though its screenplay, full of odd, yearning references to 1930's westerns, could just as well have taken place in Tombstone, Ariz.
What he has created is a screenplay full of vigor, somewhat conventional, oddly humorous, sometimes emotional and intermittently engaging.
Mr. Pinter's resonant screenplay is full of veiled allusions and meaningful pauses.
But Chris Terrio's screenplay is full of smart little bits — the C.I.A. badinage, which is improbably profane and witty; the terse meetings; the hilarious Hollywood stuff.
Former sketch comedy writer Bob Nelson's screenplay is full of wry rural observations (Mount Rushmore looks "unfinished, like someone got bored… ") and Payne's familiar Sideways-glance at the foibles of people in quiet crisis is typically sympathetic.
The nature of the script meant during filming, McCraney stepped aside: "Even after Barry gave it space and a platform, the screenplay is full of memories that are hard to watch.
Well, I've written a couple of screenplays.
Said Black: "If Vincent Van Gogh wrote screenplays, he would be the Charlie Kaufman of screenplays".
Today, Leonard has left Overbrook and is launching a full-time profit version of The Black List, with the ambitious goal to "index every single screenplay of reasonable quality on Earth and provide an efficient ecosystem that matches people who make movies with the kind of screenplays on which (and screenwriters with whom) they'd like to work".
