Best "Script Doctors'' in Hollywood
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Qualifications: Heir to a long line of writers, born writer, he made โโhis debut on the series Roseanne (1988). Creator of Buffy VS the vampires. He signed with his name topics like Alien: Resurrection (1997), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). Shelved after the unfortunate experience of the series Firefly (2002), also a Writer of comics. Returns directing Avengers biggest success of world cinema in 2012. Master of the world potential.
Experience: He corrects the scenario Speed โโ(1994) without being credited (all dialogues are his, according to Graham Yost, the only writer in the credits), the Waterworld, The quick and the Dead, Twister, Toy Story, Titan AE (2000), the X-Men (2000), but apparently his ideas are all fallen by the wayside with the exception of two punchlines, and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).
Experience: He corrects the scenario Speed โโ(1994) without being credited (all dialogues are his, according to Graham Yost, the only writer in the credits), the Waterworld, The quick and the Dead, Twister, Toy Story, Titan AE (2000), the X-Men (2000), but apparently his ideas are all fallen by the wayside with the exception of two punchlines, and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).
Qualifications: Wrote A Few Good Men (1992) under the guidance of his mentor William Goldman. Creates and writes the TV Show The West Wing and The Newsroom. Winner of an Oscar for his brilliant screenplay for The Social Network David Fincher, managing to make bankable, sexy and exciting movie on Facebook. And also remember his sense of dรฉmented dialogues, his love for politics, business, sex and build games verbal ping-pong around these themes.
Experience: He reworked the script and dialogues of Schindler's List (1993), the action movie Rock (1996) with the help of Quentin Tarantino, and Bulworth (1998), Enemy of the State (1998)...
Experience: He reworked the script and dialogues of Schindler's List (1993), the action movie Rock (1996) with the help of Quentin Tarantino, and Bulworth (1998), Enemy of the State (1998)...
Qualifications: Princess Leia Organa in the original Star Wars trilogy. Daughter of Darth Vader. Should return in Episode VII of Star Wars.
Experience: As Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Leia's role has stifled her acting career. But unless we know less that she is a talented writer (his book Postcards from the Edge, where she tells in a romanticized way the fight against drugs, has been a bestseller in 1987) had a successful career in script doctoring in the mid 90's. Including reworking Sister Act, Wedding Singer, Lethal Weapon 3, episodes of the TV series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1992) ...
Experience: As Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Leia's role has stifled her acting career. But unless we know less that she is a talented writer (his book Postcards from the Edge, where she tells in a romanticized way the fight against drugs, has been a bestseller in 1987) had a successful career in script doctoring in the mid 90's. Including reworking Sister Act, Wedding Singer, Lethal Weapon 3, episodes of the TV series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1992) ...
Qualifications: Coming from the "stable" JJ Abrams, with whom he created the series Lost, Lindelof has officially co-wrote Cowboys & Aliens and Star Trek Into Darkness with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Officially writer
of Tomorrowland (December 2014), the film retro-SF by Brad Bird.
Experience: on Prometheus, his rewrite of the original script by Jon Spaiths made โโhim the perfect scapegoat for the film defects. He reworked over a third of World War Z (as a Christopher McQuarrie, without any screen credit).
of Tomorrowland (December 2014), the film retro-SF by Brad Bird.
Experience: on Prometheus, his rewrite of the original script by Jon Spaiths made โโhim the perfect scapegoat for the film defects. He reworked over a third of World War Z (as a Christopher McQuarrie, without any screen credit).
Hollywood golden boy with his script for The Usual Suspects, for which he won the Oscar. His directorial debut, Way of the Gun (2000) is a public failure. Returns with Jack Reacher, great brutal thriller that won a great success. Become best friend of Tom Cruise, he was chosen to be the next director of Mission: Impossible 5.
Experience: Put in the closet after the flop "Way of the Gun" , McQuarrie is for eleven years a script doctor in high demand in Hollywood for his sense of twist and effectiveness. In addition to its "official" works (Valkyrie, The Tourist, Jack Hunter Giants), he has reworked the script for the first X-Men and wrote a first draft of The Wolverine (2013). Recently, he rewrote scenes from Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and Oblivion.
Experience: Put in the closet after the flop "Way of the Gun" , McQuarrie is for eleven years a script doctor in high demand in Hollywood for his sense of twist and effectiveness. In addition to its "official" works (Valkyrie, The Tourist, Jack Hunter Giants), he has reworked the script for the first X-Men and wrote a first draft of The Wolverine (2013). Recently, he rewrote scenes from Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and Oblivion.
Qualifications: Author winner of the Pulitzer, amateur of manipulative and twisted subjects, his CV to the cinema is substantial: The Untouchables ,The Verdict, The Spanish Prisoner (1997), Wag the Dog (1997), Hannibal (2001) ... He just made a great TV movie about Phil Spector with Al Pacino and Helen Mirren.
Experience: His scenario of Malcolm X (1992) is rejected by Spike Lee. He fixed (not in the physical sense) the subjects of action films like Rising Sun (1993), Ronin (1997), and the unloved Great Expectations (1998).
Experience: His scenario of Malcolm X (1992) is rejected by Spike Lee. He fixed (not in the physical sense) the subjects of action films like Rising Sun (1993), Ronin (1997), and the unloved Great Expectations (1998).
Qualifications: Author British theater success (knighted in 1997, God save the Queen!) Brilliant screenwriter, co-author scenarios of Brazil, Shakespeare in love, and the recent Anna Karenina with Keira Knightley.
Experience: He wrote the third version of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and "all the dialogues are from him " dixit Spielberg (only Jeffrey Boam is credited in) who will require him to correct Schindler's List. Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (officially written by Andrew Kevin Walker )and K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) bear also his signature. He signed an adaptation of The Golden Compass (2005) who was rejected, and a first version of The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).
Experience: He wrote the third version of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and "all the dialogues are from him " dixit Spielberg (only Jeffrey Boam is credited in) who will require him to correct Schindler's List. Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (officially written by Andrew Kevin Walker )and K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) bear also his signature. He signed an adaptation of The Golden Compass (2005) who was rejected, and a first version of The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).
Qualifications: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The President's Men (1976), Marathon Man (1976), A Bridge Too Far (1977), The Princess Bride (1987), Misery (1990), Absolute Power (1997) ... The official career of screenwriter William Goldman, a genious adapter(and often his own novels), speaks for itself and often deals with the relationship between reality and fiction.
Experience: Crowned two-Oscars for Butch Cassidy and The President's Men, he was among the most requested Hollywood script doctors. Besides his use for The Right Stuff and M:I 2, He worked -without screen credit - on Twins(1988) Last Action Hero (1993), Indecent Proposal (1993), Fierce Creatures (1997). Despite the rumor, he didn't rewrite the script for Good Will Hunting (1997) signed by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, but He only worked one day, advising them to remove a subplot around the FBI.
Experience: Crowned two-Oscars for Butch Cassidy and The President's Men, he was among the most requested Hollywood script doctors. Besides his use for The Right Stuff and M:I 2, He worked -without screen credit - on Twins(1988) Last Action Hero (1993), Indecent Proposal (1993), Fierce Creatures (1997). Despite the rumor, he didn't rewrite the script for Good Will Hunting (1997) signed by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, but He only worked one day, advising them to remove a subplot around the FBI.
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