Sentence examples for screenplay fails from inspiring English sources

The film is in need of an edge that Peter Straughan's screenplay fails to deliver.

"Parked" has strong performances by Mr. Meaney and Mr. Morgan, but Ciaran Creagh's skimpy screenplay fails to give either character a sufficient back story to explain his dire circumstances.

Rather, he usually looks down at his screenplay and fails to see his actors, his settings, and his circumstances.

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.

Years later, when Mel Gibson is making a film about Vietnam, Rescorla is disappointed by the way the screenplay tries, and fails, to reproduce the events as he experienced them.

The production is the first in a BBC Radio 4 season of screenplays that failed to see the light of day.

Tom Schulman wrote both the screenplay and this adaptation but fails to find the theatrical equivalent to an army of young actors belting "O Captain!

Directed by Rob Reiner from a sketchy screenplay by Justin Zackham, "The Bucket List" fails its stars in fundamental ways.

You'd be amazed at the big shots with failed screenplays in their closets, he noted, stopping short of embarrassing any big shots on the record.

James's husband, the author Niall Leonard, will write both screenplays after James failed to gel with the first film's screenwriter Kelly Marcel.

He continues: "Kubrick refused to direct the Apollo 13 mission, however, because Nasa officials rejected his screenplay in which the Apollo 13 mission fails.