28 Days Later (2002)
The Author: Alex Garland ( The Beach, The Tesseract, The Coma )
The Screenplay: Following Danny Boyle’s adaptation of The Beach , he collabora﷽ted with Garland again for this original screenplay that turned the 🌠zombie formula on its rotting head.
Signature Style: Garland’s streetwise, urban viewpoint, often foཧund in his novels comes into play with this film, as he presents t✱he first realistic take on zombies in years.
The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
The Author: James Agee ( A Death In The Family, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and more)
The Screenplay: Based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb, James Agee ☂wrote the script with director Charles Laughton.
The film completely bombed 🦩upon release with both audiences and critics, only gainiℱng appreciation over the years.
Signature Style: Despite writing in many different mediums, Agee is best known for his film criticism, although also wrote the screenplay for The African Queen .
There’s no discern🦄ible stylistic connection between this film and his works other than, as a film critic, he knew how to write one well.
Rent (2005)
The Author: Stephen Chbosky ( The Perks Of Being A Wallflower )
The Screenplay: An adaptation of the Broadway musical written by Jonathan Larson, the film ultimately earned m✃ixed to poor reviews.
Signature Style: As the writer (and eventual director) of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower , Chbosky is welꦺl-versed in adolescent dramas, but that wou🎉ld be understating the tragedies that unfold in this film.
Twister (1996)
The Author: Michael Crichton ( Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Congo and many more)
The Screenplay: After Jurassic Park , Crichton could have had his pic♓k of film writing gigs.
Here, it was Spielbe🌊rg himself who commissioned Crichton to write the film based on a 10-page treatment by screenwriter Jeffrey Hilton.
Following Crichton’s final draft, Joss Whedon was brought in for re♏writes.
Signature Style: It’s a classic man vs nature adventure from the author, who specialises in ‘scie🗹nce gone wrong’ storylines.
Jane Eyre (1943)
The Author: Aldous Huxley ( Brave New World, Point Counter Point, The Genius And The Goddess and many more)
The Screenplay: The script was written by Huxley, John Houseman, Henry Koster and Robert Stevenson and was based on a radio adไaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s c😼lassic novel.
Signature Style: Aldous Huxley is widely regarded as an intellectual who satirised society in his🍸 work, and there’s more than a shade of that in this adaptation.
Although, thankfully, his later inteꦬrest in psychedelic drugs doesn’t seem to have affected his work here.
The Misfits (1961)
The Author: Arthur Miller ( Death Of A Salesman, All My Sons, The Crucible, A View From The Bridge among so many more)
The Screenplay: It was a completely original script by Miller, 🅷who is best known for his stage plays but had written film scripts before.
Despite many problems on set, including Miller&rs🌺quo;s own marriage breakdown with star Marilyn Monroe, the film received very positive reviews.
Signature Style: The film focuses on hard-hitting relation🌸ship drama in a style t🍎hat is identifiably Miller’s.
The White Countess (2005)
The Author: Kazuo Ishiguro ( Remains Of The Day, Never Let Me Go, An Artist Of The Floating World and more)
The Screenplay: The script follows a group ♒of people trying to get by in 30s Sh🎐anghai and received mostly missed to positive reviews.
Signature Style: Ishiওguro normally always sets his novels in the past, particularly around the pre-war and post-war periods, which is where this film fits in. The sense of dramatic tragedy is a trait of Ishiguro too.
The Color Of Money (1986)
The Author: Richard Price ( Clockers, Bloodbrothers, The Wanderers and more)
The Screenplay: Price adapted the script from the novel of the same name by Walter Tevis (obviously a sequel to his previous novel The Hustler ) and earned himself an Oscar nom as a result.
Signature Style: Price’s novels explore a gritty, modern-day Amജerica complete with urban tension and realism, which can certainly be applied to this film, even if it 🎶is mostly contained to a pool hall.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
The Author: David Benioff ( 25th Hour, City Of Thieves and he is also the co-creator of the Game Of Thrones TV series)
The Screenplay: Benioff is a huge comic-book fan and chased the project for three years before he was hired to write the screenplay, which he mostly based on Barry Windsor-Smith’s Weapon X storyline. The script was later revised by Hitman scribe Skip Woods.
Signature Style: Between Game Of Thrones and his previous script for Troy ꦉ, Benioff has proved that he has a talent for steeping himself in mythology, which surely came in handy for this film.
A Star Is Born (1937)
The Author: Dorothy Parker ( Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, Death And Taxes , not to mention many collections of poetry)
The Screenplay: Parker wrote the script with Robert Carson and husband Alan Campbell, and it was nominated🍬 for an Academy Award.
Although later on in life, Parker claimed that she added nothing of significance to ⛎the screenpla♐y.
Signature Style: Parker was known as a witty, wise-cracking writer and there’s plenty of that spaജrk in this script, so maybe she contributed more than she let on?
