Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film became a cult hit and led to his first mainstream film, The Elephant Man. Lynch's next project, the big-budget sci-fi movie Dune, was a critical and commercial disaster, but Blue Velvet brought him widespread critical / acclaim. A couple of aborted projects later (including a script for Steve Martin called One Saliva Bubble), Lynch is finishing a new film, Wild at Heart, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern...
...refused to share decision-making authority and showed a knack for picking up screenplays that other studios had wisely spurned. For an Old World producer accustomed to making budget-busting epics, the studio's ambitious production slate of twelve to 20 films a year was a script for disaster. One project, the 1986 film Tai- Pan, cost $25 million to make but brought in barely $2 million...
...Lawton's script sweats bullets to prove that these two are lovable folks with much to teach each other in matters of class and conscience. But Edward has them pegged: "We both screw people for money." So does this movie. A ticket to Pretty Woman buys you mechanical titillation and predictable twists. Is Vivian thrown out of a snooty Rodeo Drive boutique? Count the minutes (which seem like hours) before she sails back with Edward and the store's clerks are toadying...
Cronyn, by contrast, goes to what many actors would call ludicrous lengths to research a part, taking endless notes in the process. "It's fascinating to watch them work," says Susan Cooper, who together with Cronyn wrote the script for Foxfire, another of the Cronyns' major Broadway successes. "Hume starts from the outside, with how a character looks and acts, and then goes inside. Jessica starts from the inside and then goes out. She feels around between the lines and is more inclined not to want an image of her character until she is through. 'Be patient with...
Even in Hollywood the script seemed bizarre: an entertainment mogul and his wife are cut down by multiple shotgun blasts as they sit watching television and snacking on berries and cream in their Beverly Hills mansion. Their two handsome sons return home from an evening at the movies to discover the horribly mangled bodies. The police probe the possibility of a Mafia hit but find nothing. The boys inherit their parents' fortune, estimated at at least $14 million, and a $400,000 insurance policy. Seven months later, the scenario takes a shocking twist when police arrest the orphaned sons...