Script Writer News--4.18.12

Leonard Mlodinow makes his message perfectly clear Kansas City Star In the 1980s and early '90s, Leonard Mlodinow was likely one of the most unexpected: a theoretical physicist-turned-scriptwriter. When TV action hero MacGyver or the Starship Enterprise crew needed new dilemmas to solve, the UC Berkeley-trained ... See all stories on this topic »

Movie scripts make bestsellers! Times of India But in a first of sorts, book enthusiasts in Kerala seem to be embracing a new trend - where scripts of critically acclaimed or hit Mollywood films are converted into books - thereby making these the next bestsellers. Mollywood scriptwriter and actor ... See all stories on this topic »

Audience write the script for Lyric Showstopper performance This is South Wales "There's a writer or director on the stage, awaiting a phonecall from our producer," said Ruth. "We then get the phonecall, and the producer doesn't like the last musical. "So the writer or director says he or she has another one — and this is where ... See all stories on this topic »

Exclusive: We Talk Lovecraft and Amazon Studios With Writer Alex Greenfield FEARnet.com My writing partner Mike Eitelman and I won their best screenplay prize in August. Basically, they wanted a proposal on how you would do a test film. They were offering a $40000 prize to go make the movie however you want. So I put in a proposal, ... See all stories on this topic » FEARnet.com

Joss Whedon on writing horror and superheroes for fanboys and casual viewers alike A.V. Club New York Whedon is also a prolific comics writer, not only shepherding titles based on his series, but also scripting noteworthy runs on X-Men and Runaways. More recently, he's been ramping up his filmmaking credits. Following the success of his independently ... See all stories on this topic » A.V. Club New York

Perfect Script for a Sleazy Movie Southern Pines Pilot A screenwriter could hardly have come up with a juicier script than this for an election-year TV movie designed to make the North Carolina Democratic Party look terrible. We can hear the writer now, selling his idea to a skeptical producer. See all stories on this topic »

The Reddit road from Des Moines to 'Rome' DesMoinesRegister.com He's the type you might expect to be discussing movies on the Internet, not writing a script for one. And that's kind of how he got his start. On a summer day in 2011, a 37-year-old office worker hops on to Reddit.com on his lunch break. See all stories on this topic »

'Best Friends Forever' Duo Talk Competition, Chemistry and Choreographed ... Hollywood Reporter St. Clair: Because we came to writing as performers first, we used improv to write our scripts and to work out ideas in the writer's room. Our poor writing staff was subjected to a lot of choreographed dance routines and forced to watch us improv as ... See all stories on this topic » Hollywood Reporter

The Blast Interview: "American Pie" writer David H. Steinberg talks the series ... Blast DS: I originally wrote it as a screenplay, then adapted it into a novel because I fell in love with my guys. Overall, the process took four years–not very fast considering it's under 200 pages. But I have a day job writing and directing movies, ... See all stories on this topic » Blast

Anne Fletcher To Direct Seth Meyer's Movie PerezHilton.com A real melding of the minds! The movie is an original Christmas comedy script titled Alone For The Holidays. As the head writer of SNL and Weekend Update anchor we're sure it'll be HIGHlarious, but we really don't know too much about it. See all stories on this topic » PerezHilton.com

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Introducing Upcoming Script Writer, Godfred Nyarko ... Introducing Upcoming Script Writer, Godfred Nyarko. Godfred Nyarko was born in Koforidua on December 9, 1990 to a Ghanaian father and mother called ... ghanandwom.com/.../introducing-upcoming-script-writer-god...