Likely major nominations: Picture, director, actor (Keaton), supporting actor (Mark Ruffalo, Stanley Tucci and/or Liev Schreiber), screenplay Room Emma Donaghue's novel was never going to make for an easy film to watch, and yet despite the dark nature of the material – a mother and son confined by a kidnapper – Lenny Abrahamson's adaptation has beat the odds to come out as a surprise front-runner.
So yes, I'm onto the next novel (1870s San Francisco), and have plans underway for plays, and a screenplay of ROOM, so ROOM the novel is just one child among many who demand my attention, if the loudest at the moment.
QUESTION FROM SAM: A screenplay of "Room!" That's exciting.
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Emma Donoghue, Room Nick Hornby, Brooklyn Adam McKay, Charles Randolph, The Big Short Phyllis Nagy, Carol Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs.
Written by David Koepp, who did the screenplay for "Panic Room" and was Michael Crichton's co-writer on "Jurassic Park".
Miller's latest original screenplay, The Disappointments Room, has attracted a producing team that includes the muscle of Oscar winner Nicolas Chartier.
"I remember doing a reading of that screenplay in his living room years ago — it must have been 500 pages.
The screenplay struggles to make room for his shamefully underwritten mother, though his father enjoys a nicely nuanced arc from stiff denial to just-in-time acceptance.
Carruth's next film is called The Modern Ocean – he was busy writing the screenplay in his hotel room the night before we meet.
The executor of the Baldwin estate, the writer's sister Gloria, allowed me to quote from certain other unpublished or little-known writings, such as a precocious adolescent poem, "Black Girl Shouting", and his unproduced screenplay of Giovanni's Room.
Her first produced screenplay was "The Keeping Room," a Civil War-era drama that first premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Muna Otaru and directed by Daniel Barber.
