While Hank Nelken's slapstick-happy screenplay subjects Nick to countless indignities — including burns, electrocution and attacks by outraged wildlife — Steve Carr directs as though making a very special episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition".
I'm sure we'll learn more about what went down in the coming weeks, but the general consensus was that Raimi was not happy with the screenplay, with the director and the suits fighting over the choice of villains.
Make sure you are happy with your screenplay.
Even better, it looks like a happy omen for the screenplay on which I am working for a dark and torrid drama called Winchmore Hill.
The feature film adaptation of his play The Happy Sad, with a screenplay by the author, directed by Rodney Evans, premiered at Frameline and OutFest last summer.
From her early screenplays (Talent, Happy Since I Met You, Nearly a Happy Ending) to Wood and Walters, the brilliant Dinnerladies, Acorn Antiques: The Musical!, the Bafta-winning Housewife, 49 and, more recently, That Day We Sang, she dominated British culture for 30 years – a vital twist in the golden thread of funny, fearless women who formed the backbone of 80s and 90s comedy.
She is not happy about the arrangement; the screenplay unconvincingly portrays her as still in love with the rat she married.
He believes that even authorial control over the film, or screenplay, cannot guarantee a happy ending.
Having spent the summer on Fire Island rewriting the screenplay, she said she was happy to be "back in an environment of comedy snobbery," because "it's better for you".
I personally was happy to see Asghar Farhadi get Best Screenplay for The Salesman (although there were others I would also vote for), and Cristian Mungiu share the Best Director award for his film Graduation.
Wilder was less happy with the way two of their screenplays were interpreted by Mitchell Leisen, which persuaded him that he had to direct his own work.
