Month: December 2017

Few films in the last decade have surprised audiences quite like 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Emerging out of left field, and undergoing a last minute title change just prior to release, movie-goers had no real reason to expect that this latest attempt to reboot the iconic franchise would be anything other… Continue reading From Script to Screen: Rise of the Planet of the Apes — The Script Lab

Paul Schrader was probably the greatest screenwriter, and certainly the most famous screenwriter, of the late 20th century. The man who wrote the greatest and most famous single line in modern cinema (“You talkin’ to me?”) almost came to embody the idea of what a screenwriter should be: self-sufficient; obsessive; and prepared, if necessary, to […]… Continue reading The Great Screenwriters – Part 17: Taxi Driver’s Paul Schrader — The Script Lab