Terry Rossio, a writer whose credits include "Shrek" and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, playfully describes her as a "Pied Piper, leading all those ratty, bleak and violent screenplays in town over a cliff".
Ms. Lockwood particularly objected to "this extreme horror film's subject matter, namely realistic cannibalism; the gruesome and graphically violent depictions described in the screenplay; and the explicit nature of the script".
Quentin Tarantino's excellent screenplay for his violent thriller True Romance (now on rerelease) was given a glossy, high-energy, if conventional treatment by Tony Scott in 1993, a year after Tarantino's debut as a fully fledged writer-director with Reservoir Dogs.
In 1977, he collaborated, surprisingly perhaps, on the screenplay for Sam Peckinpah's violent account of life on the German side of the second world war, Cross Of Iron.
The violent western, with a strong Elmore Leonard screenplay, starred Clint Eastwood as a former bounty hunter who agrees to help a landowner (Robert Duvall) track down the man leading a peasant revolt.
Where "The Sopranos" and its close cinematic equivalent, "Goodfellas," are warmblooded explorations of violent men bonding, "The Iceman," directed by Ariel Vromen from a screenplay he wrote with Morgan Land, is as cold as the nickname of its title character.
It's as though Mr. Buchan had simply turned this portion of the novel into a treatment for a screenplay, hurrying the reader through a requisite number of violent set pieces and confrontations.
Since then, he's made roughly a dozen more movies, including his latest — the riveting, violent, sardonic "Killer Joe". Like its predecessor, "Bug," it's from a screenplay by Tracy Letts, based on Letts' own play.
Chandor's screenplay begins with the city's crime statistics from 1980: murders, 2,228; violent crimes, 180,235.
I wrote the screenplay and no studio wanted to make it" because, according to Carpenter, "it was too violent, too scary, too weird".
