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Cinematical Picks: The Golden Globe Winners -- Best Screenplay
Filed under: Comedy », Drama », Awards », Fandom », Scripts », Polls »
Best ScreenplayNominees:
Diablo Cody -- Juno
Joel & Ethan Coen -- No Country for Old Men
Christopher Hampton -- Atonement
Ronald Harwood -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Aaron Sorkin -- Charlie Wilson's War
Predicted Winner: Diablo Cody -- Juno
Often, it's not the finest writing that wins the screenplay award, it's the flashiest. Cinematical doesn't think Globe voters will be able to pass up Diablo Cody's hyper-verbose, show-offy script, chock full of memorable one-liners and quotable dialogue. Plus, Hollywood just can't get enough of her stripper-turned-screenwriter tale. Juno what I'm saying?
Now it's your turn to vote ...
Paramount Takes on Intelligent Design
Filed under: Drama », Deals », Paramount », Scripts », Newsstand », Politics »
Paramount sure is political these days. In
addition to Oliver Stone's World Trade Center,
they're also about to start work on Stop-Loss, in which a soldier is forced to serve a second tour in Iraq,
and are also producing Ridley Scott's The
Invisible World, about the kidnapping of a female journalist in Iraq, which is due to go into production early
next year. And now they've added intelligent design to the list.According to Variety, the studio just hired Ronald Harwood to write a screenplay based on last year's court decision ruling that a Pennsylvania school board didn't have the right to force teachers to teach intelligent design. (Interestingly, the film's producer was thinking "movie" from the very start, so much so that she actually sent someone to watch and take notes on the trial -- does that show clever foresight or a disturbing tendency to turn every major news story into tomorrow's blockbuster? Both?) In Harwood's eyes, his benchmark is Inherit the Wind, the play and film that told the story of the famous Scopes trial, which allowed evolution into (Tennessee) classrooms in the first place. "Our aspiration is to make a film that powerful ... We have a highly emotional case that divided a town right down the middle, and a judge whose summary was spectacular."
Harwood is currently doing a rewrite on Baz Luhrmann's mysterious Outback Romance, but as soon as he finishes that, it's all intelligent design, all the time.
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