by Edwin Cannistraci | Apr 20, 2017 | Industry, Screenwriting Role Models
Many talented people helped to make Alien a landmark film, but screenwriter Dan O’Bannon created the blueprint. The genesis of the script dates back to the early 1970s. O’Bannon was attending the University of Southern California with future filmmaker, John Carpenter....
by Valerie Kalfrin | Apr 12, 2017 | Screenwriting Role Models
With T2 Trainspotting, screenwriter John Hodge pulls off a feat other writers envy: a character-focused sequel set – and released – twenty years after the original that’s poignant and funny, even with a plot that’s beside the point. But Hodge, who earned an Oscar...
by Edwin Cannistraci | Apr 6, 2017 | Screenwriting Role Models
Paul Schrader is one of the most important screenwriters of the twentieth century and helped to define the New Hollywood of the 1970s. Unlike most filmmakers, Schrader didn’t grow up loving movies. In fact, he had not seen one until he was in his late teens. He grew...
