Church, 48, departing artistic director at Chichester festival theatre where he nurtured such theatrical hits as Enron, will replace writer-director Andrew Upton, who will have been at the helm of "the Wharf" for eight years, five of those job-sharing with his wife, actor Cate Blanchett.
According to the Writers Guild of America's 2014 annual report, since 2008, writers ages 41 to 50 have replaced writers ages 31 to 40 as the group enjoying the largest share of employment in the movie business.
In 2004 Mr. Horn had asked Mr. Reiner to replace the writer and director Ted Griffin 10 days into the shooting of "Rumor Has It... " starring Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner.
Darin Strauss, author of "Half a Life": One solid trick is to write in the third person, then to do a word replace — the writer should turn every "I" to "she" (or "he"), every "my" to "her," etc. Why?
After two drafts, Mr. Viscardi and Mr. McRobb were replaced as writers on the project by Mr. Ross, whom Universal has contended should be credited as the sole screenwriter.
Today reporters who play stenographers of the news are being replaced by writers who analyze the news, he argues.
An NBC executive said that there was no immediate plan to replace the fired writers.
Will robotic writers replace or simply support the work of their human counterparts?
I mostly thought in terms of replacing the "writer" with another occupation.
She's been replaced as writer by Amelia Bullmore, now juggling dual duties as she continues to play no-nonsense station boss DCI Murray.
