We sat down with Michael Green, screenwriter for the latest remake of Murder on the Orient Express, to talk about the mystery genre and what writers can learn from Agatha Christie.
How does a movie with so much potential, so many stars and so much cash behind it fail to measure up? We think it all starts with story. If you have that down, everything else falls into place. Here are five DON'TS when it comes to story that we learned from Alice Through the Looking Glass.
How does a screenwriter in Hollywood approach the challenge of bringing one of the most beloved characters of the Old West to the silver screen when legendary Pirates of the Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski ask you to write the script?
“The way to approach this was to not be overly precious or careful about it, ...