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...named Jamie as he wanders through the downtown Manhattan club scene at its early-'80s height. His book was written entirely in the second person and mostly in the present tense. But there are no equivalents to these devices in the grammar of film. As a result, his screenplay lacks the bite of his original fiction...
...play < until the next is written. The night before Yale started staging Piano Lesson last October, he drafted the first scene of Two Trains Running, set in 1968. It is to play at Yale whenever Wilson can finish it, in between revisions on Piano Lesson and a screenplay for Fences to star Eddie Murphy...
...Sinatra, the film's star, persuaded President John F. Kennedy to give his blessing to the project. Candidate opened in the fall of 1962, to mixed reviews and soft box office. "We had both sides of the political spectrum mad at us," says George Axelrod, who fashioned a terrific screenplay from Richard Condon's scathing comic apocalypse of a novel. "In Paris Communists picketed outside a theater on the Champs Elysees at the same time that Red-baiters were picketing in Orange County. Trouble was, all these people were outside the theater, not inside...
...Screenplay by Harv Zimmel, Michael...
Unfortunately the writers for Shoot to Kill didn't measure up to the high caliber of the film's advertising and casting personnel. The lucky three to get screenplay credits are Harv Zimmel, Michael Burton and Daniel Petrie Jr.; there's no point in changing their names, since they aren't innocent. It's strange that the more writers a movie has, the lamer the script inevitably...