PEOPLE & NEWS
The Buzz
The BBC’s Script Smart; Sahara: The Trial; Tony Montana lives!
Erik Bauer Retires: A Tribute to Creative Screenwriting‘s Founder
A look back at the start of this magazine.
Anatomy of a Spec Sale
Chad and Dara Creasey resurrect John Hughes in their R-rated high-school comedy spec B.F.F.
Breaking In
Kyle Ward, Luke Barats & Joe Bereta
People
Christopher Canole, the Brothers Mullen
Why I Write: Ethan Hawke
The writer-director of The Hottest State talks about how he’s happiest when the writing is flowing.
COMING SOON…
No End in Sight
Charles Ferguson challenged his own beliefs about the Iraq War and won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance.
BY PETER CLINES
Introducing the Dwights
Keith Thompson explains how telling the truth can be funny as well as serious.
BY PETER CLINES
1408
When Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski rewrote Matt Greenberg’s adaptation of Stephen King’s short story, they did the unthinkable…
BY DAVID MICHAEL WHARTON
Becoming Jane
Kevin Hood channeled Jane Austen’s voice to tell this story of the young author’s romance.
BY PETER N. CHUMO II
2 Days in Paris
Actress Julie Delpy directs and stars in her first produced screenplay, a comedy about lovers who discover they might have less in common than they’d hoped.
BY DANNY MUNSO
Hairspray
In adapting the Broadway play, Leslie Dixon had to keep the energy while grounding the script in its pre-Civil Rights era.
BY TOM MATIHEWS
Rush Hour 3
Jeff Nathanson’s third Rush Hour script pits the dynamic duo against Chinese Triads in Paris.
BY DANNY MUNSO
The Ten
The State‘s David Wain and Ken Marino twist the Ten Commandments into a darkly funny view of human foibles.
BY JEFF GOLDSMITH
Superbad
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg take their Emmy-winning writing to school—high school—in this raunchy comedy.
BY JEFF GOLDSMITH
COLUMNS
The Business of Screenwriting
Pleasing Those Pesky Readers
Writers may be a dime a dozen, but readers are in hot demand.
BY RON SUPPA
Writer Beware!
Hansel & Gretel Go Spec’ing
In which the Brothers Grimm’s favorite siblings show you five ways to protect yourself and your script during this fall buying season.
BY JOAL RYAN
Agent ‘s Hot Sheet
Getting in on the Action
After a much-needed break, the action genre appears poised to make an explosive, two-fisted comeback.
BY JIM CIRILE
Our Craft
Four Ways to Make You Tense
Tension and suspense are necessary in all genres, not just action movies. But how do you keep your readers guessing (in a good way)?
BY KARL IGLESIAS
The Final Scene
Stardust
BY MATIHEW VAUGHN & JANE GOLDMAN
FEATURES
Starry Starry Night: Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman Bring a Fairy Tale to Screen in Stardust
When Neil Gaiman introduced Matthew Vaughn to novelist Jane Goldman, a director in love with writing and a writer new to screen writing found themselves perfectly suited to transporting Gaiman’s “love child of Princess Bride and Midnight Run” to the big screen. PLUS: Neil Gaiman on the origins of Stardust.
BY DAVID MICHAEL WHARTON
Hitting a Homer: James L. Brooks Puts the Fun in Dysfunctional in The Simpsons Movie
He starting out thinking that writing was an “exotic escape plan,” and has since won three Oscars and 17 Emmys. Now the writing legend who helped create everything from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to As Good As It Gets sits down with Creative Screenwriting to talk about his writing, his process, and bringing everyone’s favorite two-dimensional family to the big screen.
BY JEFF GOLDSMITH
Ghosts of History: Milos Forman, Jean-Claude Carriere and Goya’s Ghosts
Milos Forman has spent his career chasing history, and being chased by it. In his latest film, the writer-director and his co-writer investigate torture and the abuse of power, and find uncomfortable parallels to the world today.
BY JEFF GOLDSMITH
Any Medium Will Do: Glenn Gordon Caron’s Visions of Television
Glenn Gordon Caron wanted to direct movies, which started him writing television, which allowed him to create Moonlighting and now the NBC hit Medium. Here he talks about what he’s learned in three decades of writing and producing television and film.
BY JASON DAVIS
Character, Craft and Crowbars: Half-Life 2’s Marc Laidlaw
As Hollywood continues to mine the multi-billion-dollar video-gaming industry for ideas, Valve Software in-house writer Marc Laidlaw tells us how the award winning Half-Life series came to be, how games are written, and what you’ll need to know if you want to take his job.
BY DAVID MICHAEL WHARTON
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