Who Wrote That Movie?

About the Book

Before the director or actors can work their magic onscreen a writer, often working alone, faces the blank page and must be the first to create the magic. Yet the writer is usually ignored by critics eager to give credit to the director or sometimes an actor. Not only that, the original vision of the screenwriter rarely makes it to the screen intact-Imagine if your favorite movie could have even been better had that image-conscious actress not demanded changes to the script? The screenplays and movies discussed include:

A Beautiful Mind
Adaptation
Almost Famous
Ararat
Black Hawk Down
Blade 2
Cast Away
Catch Me if You Can
City by the Sea
The Cell
Dancer in the Dark
Far From Heaven
Frailty
The Gift
Gladiator
John Q.
Insomnia
In the Bedroom
Memento
MIB2
Minority Report
Monster's Ball
Ocean's Eleven
Panic Room
Pay it Forward
Pearl Harbor Proof of Life Road to Perdition
Signs
Spy Game
We Were Soldiers
Windtalkers
Traffic
Unbreakable

About the Author

Chris Wehner is a film critic for the Movie Review & Screenplay Database (www.iscriptdb.com), editor-in-chief of Screenwriter?s Monthly, author of Screenwriting on the Web: Researching, Writing, & Selling Your Script on the Web (2000), script reviewer, and founder of ScreenwritersUtopia.com.