Screenwriter Spills Beans on Nicolas Cage and Tim Burton's Failed Plans for Superman

The Tim Burton/Nicolas Cage Superman movie that never quite managed to get off the ground in the 1990s has become enough of an object of spectacle and speculation that it’s even receiving its own documentary. New information about what that movie might have done to the last son of Krypton, courtesy of the project's screenwriter Dan Gilroy, suggests that the world might have been better for the movie remaining unmade... (Read more...)

David Cronenberg: Why Frustrated Novelists Hate the Screenplay

I had actually started to write a screenplay, we called it an erotic thriller, and eventually I called it Consumed, but I couldn't finish the script, I couldn't make it work. Now, I romanticize it by thinking that it knew it needed to be a novel and ...

'Gambit' Screenplay To Based On Chris Claremont Treatment

Deadline reports that Fox has hired Robocop scribe Josh Zetumer to write the screenplay. Interestingly enough, the screenplay will be actually based on an earlier script written by Chris Claremont. Claremont's writings for the Wolverine's limited ...

How To Write The Perfect Screenplay - Just Follow This Simple Scientific Formula

If, however, the rest of the world, you're happier with a bit of paper in your hand, this list of advice is just for you... our guide to some of the rules and pitfalls of creating an award-winning screenplay, and how best to present it to the ...

Pasadena City College paid Oscar-winning screenwriter not to sue

Pasadena City College leaders agreed to pay Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black nearly $26,000 not to sue the school after it rescinded an invitation for him to be the commencement speaker earlier this year, according to copy of the settlement agreem...

Screenwriter's 436-page Super Mario Bros. script 'really sucks'

At age 18, Max Landis — the writer behind film Chronicle and short The Death and Return of Superman — wrote a movie script for a Super Mario World movie. Luckily for Mario fans everywhere, Landis released the script in all its 436 pages of glory on his website...

Channing Tatum ‘X-Men’ spinoff ‘Gambit’ lands ‘RoboCop’ screenwriter

Josh Zetumer has been hired to write the script for Fox’s “X-Men” spinoff, “Gambit.” Zetumer’s script will be based on […]...