It is the first screenplay by Francoise Sagan.
It's the first screenplay I wrote and directed myself.
The Sweet Hereafter was the first screenplay that Egoyan adapted from another source.
The first screenplay he wrote, a 1998 homage to John Waters called "Fat," got him an agent at Creative Artists Agency.
According to the director, the first screenplay he commissioned was so faithful to Arenas's capacious sexual appetite that not even Pasolini could have filmed it.
THE first screenplay by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, written on cocktail napkins and fueled by margaritas, was a female action-thriller about girls who kill members of the Navy Seals.
Despite the push-back, the first screenplay Sagay ever wrote – interracial romcom The Secret Laughter of Women – was made in 1999 and stars Nia Long and Colin Firth.
"Rancho Deluxe" (1975), a comic western starring Jeff Bridges, was the first screenplay by the novelist Thomas McGuane, and the first of three films on which Mr. Kastner collaborated with Mr. McGuane.
He wrote a screenplay adaptation of the Anne Tyler novel "Celestial Navigation," and the first screenplay for the movie "The Stunt Man," which had nothing to do with the movie that was eventually made, in 1980, starring Peter O'Toole.
I think that one of my favorite experiences was the first screenplay I ever wrote, when I was around twenty-two, and Paramount had asked me to write a comedy about the first narc in the United States.
"Where Eagles Dare" (1968), a World War II drama starring Richard Burton, about the rescue of an American officer captured by the Nazis, was the first screenplay written by the novelist Alistair MacLean.
