Screenplay News--3.30.12

Orson Welles's lost Heart of Darkness screenplay performed for the first time Telegraph.co.uk The screenplay begins with an on-camera "screen test" in which he asks the audience to assume the role of a caged canary. There's another prologue, utterly unrelated to Conrad, that places the viewer in an electric chair. See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

Local film's screenplay inspires book Screen Africa The Naledi publishing house has just obtained the rights to publish a novel, in both Afrikaans and English, based on the screenplay of The Story of Racheltjie De Beer, a film that will only start production in early 2013. The novel has been penned by ... See all stories on this topic »

Lilly Collins reveals directorial dream Zee News Washington: Lily Collins has revealed that she is ''fascinated'' by filmmaking and would love to direct and write a screenplay in the future. "I would love to write. I started writing a screenplay recently because I love writing for newspapers and ... See all stories on this topic » Zee News

Comic Book Legends Revealed #360 Comic Book Resources Charlie Kaufman is a three-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. He was nominated for Being John Malkovich (Best Original Screenplay)… Early in his career, though, Kaufman worked for National Lampoon magazine, and one of his earliest ... See all stories on this topic » Comic Book Resources

Graphic novel gorgeous, profound K-State Collegian By Tyler Brown Confusion, awe and inspiration — I felt all these things reading "Tale of Sand," a new graphic novel adapted from an unproduced screenplay by the late Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl, the well-known creators of The Muppets. See all stories on this topic »

'Mirror Mirror' is cracked Kansas City Star The screenplay by Melisa Wallack and Jason Keller is - at least on paper - a clever spin on the Brothers Grimm classic "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The actors are caught somewhere in the middle of this quirky, unsatisfying film - a fractured ... See all stories on this topic »

Titanic Film 'A Night to Remember' From Criterion New York Times Working from a screenplay by his frequent collaborator, the suspense novelist Eric Ambler, and a best-selling book by Walter Lord, Baker solidifies the metaphor long attached to the Titanic story, turning the doomed ship into a microcosm, ... See all stories on this topic »

Turn Me On, Dammit Celebrates Horny Girls Huffington Post Well, in Turn Me On, Dammit (which nabbed Best Screenplay for a Narrative Feature Film at the Tribeca Film Festival), Norwegian filmmaker Jannicke Systad Jabobsen has taken the original, startling tack of presenting a young girl's desire as normal. See all stories on this topic »

Charlie Kaufman to Write Something That Is Not a Screenplay Grantland (blog) It's a book. And it's not one of those Urban Outfitter-front-table "Cute Guys Holding Sea Otters" type of book, either. The mind-exploding screenwriter is writing a proper, real-deal novel, one that will be released by Grand Central Publishing and then ... See all stories on this topic »

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