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...only thing Schumacher and his scrupulous craftsfolk forgot to give the movie was life -- the energizing spirit of wit and passion that makes scenes work and characters breathe. The script, by Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler and Akiva Goldsman, settles for the stale pose of antiheroic dialogue and TV sitcom irony. Barbara Ling's sumptuous production design is mainly a reminder of better, quirkier films (Blade Runner, The Hudsucker Proxy). The special-effects aces have created a big destruct-o-fest, with explosions all over Gotham, yet the film is pizazz deficient. A series of set pieces with no forward...
...heartening news for young actors with goatees who have always dreamed of playing Shaggy, Turner Pictures is working on a live action screen version of Scooby Doo. No actors (or dogs) have been signed, but a script is definitely in the works. Does Marmaduke know...
...American TV executives are at the same threshold. With help from Saunders and AbFab script editor Ruby Wax, Roseanne has reworked the teleplay for her pilot episode three times in an effort to appease ABC bosses. "The first script I turned in was almost exactly what they would have done at the BBC," she says. But the network executives balked at the drug and alcohol references. Edina and Patsy, who may be played in the American version by Carrie Fisher and Barbara Carrera, "won't be swilling Bollinger and vodka," says Roseanne, "but we will imply...
...here they were on a fine October morning in Winterset, Iowa-cloudless sky, heatless sun, a soft breeze rustling leaves that had turned to perfectly photogenic reds and golds. Beresford was gone; Streep was present; Eastwood was directing as well as co-starring; the script was finally right and so was today's pretty location, through which an aged Francesca was supposed to wander distraught (she has just learned that her long-ago three-day lover has died). As Eastwood ambled over to discuss the day's first shot with his longtime cinematographer, Jack Green, he was heard to murmur...
Certainly that's the way Eastwood defines his task: "I feel the director's job, besides picking a script, is casting the right people. But then after that, the real responsibility is to make those people feel at home. Set an atmosphere where everybody is extremely relaxed and there's no tension. Coming from acting, you know what rattles people, what rattles...