But through multiple screenplays Mr. Mandela's sprawling memoir proved too unwieldy for a film, and Mr. Freeman abandoned the project.
But you couldn't escape the sensation that America was using these auteurs as little more than hired guns; cheap and interesting newcomers brought in to see through existing screenplays.
Even when he's galumphing through a screenplay that is simultaneously impenetrable and horribly rote.
And series creator Mitchell Hurwitz said that he is halfway through the screenplay for a reunion film and is "eighty per cent" sure it will happen.
And so bestiality — merely notional, perhaps, but quite enough under the circumstances — enters the range of horrors on Moreau's little island, probably entering through the screenplay by Waldemar Young and Philip Wylie.
Mr. Jonze expands its horizons — through the screenplay (written with Dave Eggers), which fleshes out Max's exploits, and even more so, through the look of the film, which situates those adventures in a palpably physical universe.
We're experimenting on you.' " Assuming Mr. Hurwitz and his "Arrested Development" confederates are not performing their own experiment on their fan base, he said he was about halfway through a screenplay with his co-writers Jim Vallely and Dean Lorey, but did not specify a studio for either the movie or television components, or a network that might broadcast the new episodes.
That film is The Servant, an inspired elevation of trashy material through the screenplay by Harold Pinter (the decisive friendship in Losey's career); it was a chance to take on the key relationship in a decaying society, that of servant and master.
In 2004, Leonard was working as a development executive at Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way, charged with sifting through piles of screenplays in search of the diamond in the rough that might spark the actor's interest.
Exquisitely detailed and exhaustively researched -- through interviews, draft screenplays, and a raft of contemporaneous reporting -- Harris peels away the onion around the genesis, production, and reaction to these films.
