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Girls on Film: Women Screenwriters to Watch For
Filed under: Scripts », Columns », Girls on Film »
I covered the world of men writing women back in June, and it's already time to revisit the pen. At the end of July, Variety posted a special collection of articles outlining the Top Ten Screenwriters to keep an eye out for. Unlike most lists, which select only a sliver of female talent (much like the industry as a whole), this ten plays the half and half game. The women who reign supreme: Emma Forrest, Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins, Mindy Kaling (pictured above with Brenda Withers), Liz Meriwether, and Michelle Morgan.
Six women in a list of twelve screenwriters? (There's a writing duo on each side.) Can't complain about the numbers. There are writers from Harvard and Dartmouth, some who started off as actresses, and one who even made the ginormous leap from reception desks to feature films. They each have a number of projects they're working on, which should bring a lot of female fare to Hollywood. But there's a "but." ... Can you tell?
While these scribes are working on a number of projects ranging from romance to spy capers, it's mostly and essentially all about romantic comedy. Name to name, they're working on romantic underdogs, sluts and "friends with benefits," and class-conscious romcom fare. Emma Forrest's Liars (A-E), which I posted about recently, is about her relationship with Colin Farrell -- and even Halpern and Haskins' Book Smart, which could be about anything when coming from two Harvard grads, is about girls looking for boyfriends at the prom.
A 'Honey Pot' of Action and Adventure
Filed under: Scripts », Newsstand »
Variety is reporting that Paramount has already snapped up Liz Meriwether's script Honey Pot, which which is about "what happens 'when a bunch of hot, funny women get their Bourne on.'"You might recognize Meriwether's name from the New York Times' feature on Hollywood's "Fempire," the awesome and creative foursome consisting of Meriwether, Dana Fox, Lorene Scafaria, and Diablo Cody, whose newest film Jennifer's Body is coming out this September.
According to the New York Times, Meriwether joined the all-girls' club when "her agent, Cliff Roberts of William Morris, sent her first television pilot, 'Sluts' -- about a group of recent college graduates who move to New York -- to Ms. Scafaria and Ms. Fox about a year ago."
(Anyone else wondering why this article was filed under fashion? Or is that just because they hold each other's purses and stuff at red carpets?)
Since this is still just a script, there's no other info available about the project, other than that Montecito Co.'s Tom Pollock, Jeffrey Clifford, and Ivan Reitman will be producing.
I'm eagerly awaiting more details about this action-adventure that promises to be way cooler (and raunchier) than Charlie's Angels. However, I do wonder if there will be any guff from the MPAA about the double meaning of the title. What do you think?
'Maynard and Jennica' Gets Optioned
Filed under: Drama », Romance », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Deals », Scripts »
What would happen if you merged the early days of Sex and the City with Amelie? Methinks you might get Maynard and Jennica, a recently released book from Rudolph Delson, which The Hollywood Reporter posts has just been picked up by Scott Rudin for a big-screen adaptation. He has tapped playwright and television Liz Meriwether to adapt it into her first feature script.The novel is a "whimsical story about the relationship between a filmmaker-musician and his more introspective girlfriend that is set before, during, and after Sept. 11." The story has 35 first-person narrators, who include not only friends and family, but also dead ancestors, a Russian Israeli scam artist, the emergency break on a train, and a macaw. So, I'm getting flashbacks to the old at-the-camera dating tidbits from SatC's early days, plus the strange wonder of Amelie.
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