Word: screenplays
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...threat to prominent Americans in regions of political turmoil is more acute than ever-thus negotiators with the steel-edged nerves needed to manipulate the most delicate of situations have become a critical necessity (not surprisingly, an extensive article on the subject served as the basis for the screenplay). In a sequence of terrifying simplicity, Bowman, who was commissioned to build a dam on the outskirts of Tescala, is merely driving to work when he encounters a barricade and is randomly snatched by men in ski-masks, who hustle him off into the mountains. Thorne, representative of the London-based...
...theaters. Those expecting to the two leads to scorch the screen, however, will be shocked and perhaps even bitterly disappointed to see just how little sexual tension develops between the two stars. Curiously, Proof of Life is not structured as a romance-the greatest shortcoming of the screenplay is its failure to develop Thorne's central conflict, in which a man who's always in control finds that what he has to do has become almost directly opposed to what he wants to do. The cast, otherwise, is almost uniformly excellent. Ryan's career has all but been damned...
Kessler broke into the theatrical writing scene with his senior thesis, a play called "Darlene," which was adapted into a screenplay under the direction of Spike Lee, who Kessler met in a seminar the director taught at Harvard...
Kessler left movie writing for television after his screenplay was shelved. The advantage of TV, he said, is that "it allows you to see your work actually produced during your lifetime...
...sure he sees his own reflection on the glass encasing them. His breakthrough film, The Sixth Sense, which featured Willis in the lead, was about as big as Hollywood hits come: it garnered six Oscar nominations (including two for Shyamalan, for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay) and grossed more than $600 million at the box office worldwide, making it the ninth highest-grossing film ever. Shyamalan wants to build on that success, and he'll get his first shot to do so with the release this week of his new film, Unbreakable, co-starring Willis and Samuel L. Jackson...