Producer Lindsay Doran, a longtime admirer of Austen's novel, hired Thompson to write the screenplay.
Max Allan Collins, who authored the graphic novel, was hired to write the novelization for the film adaptation.
Recently, a native of the city came up with a novel suggestion: hire pretend zombies to chase around paying customers in a theme park set among abandoned buildings.
Cary Grant, the former Archibald Leach, felt an affinity with Ernie Mott, the cockney vagabond hero of Richard Llewellyn's novel and hired his friend the playwright Clifford Odets to adapt it for the film (for which Odets also made his directorial debut).
Andrew Morrison left the oppression of his ancestral home decades before in pursuit of the American dream, but, forced to survive amid the cruel realities facing the poor whites of the time, has fallen into a life of wandering and, the novel implies, hired killing.
The crisis point came with 1990's The Bonfire of the Vanities, a Hollywood stinker of epic proportions and a textbook example of what happens when a studio tries to make a crowd-pleaser out of a difficult novel, and hires a strong-willed director to do it.
She wrote a new novel and hired a freelance editor for it, and that editor contacted me and suggested I read it.
Universal is backing an adaptation of graphic novel '2 Guns', hiring Blake Masters to adapt a throwback to those movies, with a modern spin.
With the unemployment rate here close to 50 percent, Alameda's mayor, Juan Lorenzo Pineda Claverías, has taken a novel approach to hiring for many of the municipality's jobs.
A rule it has proposed but not confirmed would require financial firms in America to submit plans to ensure that their staff and suppliers are sufficiently diverse (again, in a racial rather than prudential sense), a novel government intrusion into hiring and purchasing.
