Word: scripting
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...find or create a project yourself and hire a writer to do it. The other is to find a novel and have a studio or producer buy it, and then hire a writer. The third way is to have somebody, a studio or producer, send you a script. And that's what happened here. Bob Weinstein sent me the script of Reindeer Games...I read it, I loved it. In fact, I decided to do this picture faster than I've ever decided to do a movie...
...Josh Edelman '00 sees the Student Playwrights Project as the core force behind his play. "Without the SPP, [my play] would have stayed in my desk drawer. I could never get the people, the resources and the money together to do a full-scale production of this script without a lot of work on my part, and it's great to know that there's a way this play can happen without all that fuss," he explains. Edelman's drama, Barbary, which he describes as a "meditation on the violence, loneliness and emptiness of much of American society," will...
...director in addition to adding a "fun and experimental atmosphere." However, he also concedes that the scenes in his play are not as intense as those in a full scale production. "It's hard to act truly and intensely when you're forced to refer to a script in your hand," he reveals. Nevertheless, Kellerman feels the advantages outweigh the shortcomings of the project: "It's much easier to identify and fix problems in language and timing when you hear the words being read." In fact, Kellerman has taken the opportunity to produce two different sketches, one of which...
...scene at the casino. The grittiness is enhanced by the hostile setting of northern Michigan in the dead of winter--the bitter coldness of the air is a reflection of the bitter coldness within the characters and their motivations. Even so, there's plenty of humor thrown into the script, creating an interesting mix of laughs, shocks and thrills...
...Benjamin Button: A script that has often been touted as the best unmade movie in Hollywood is a clear star vehicle about a man who ages backwards--when he finally finds the girl of his dreams, she gets older as he gets younger and younger. As a magazine recently noted, it'll work as long as they don't cast Robin Williams...