Adapting August: Osage County from Stage to Screen
The prizewinning playwright Tracy Letts on the challenges of film writing.
By Philip Brown. Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony award winner, provocateur, family values promoter, and master of fried chicken perversion, Tracy Letts has been many things throughout his career, but above all else he is one of the finest writers of his generation. Raised in the unexpectedly wholesome town of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Letts began his writing […]
Writing Gravity
Screenwriter Jonas Cuaron discusses writing Gravity from initial concept to final draft.
by Phil Brown Heavily praised even before release, Gravity is sure to be one of the most widely discussed films of 2013. Audiences will feel woozy from the groundbreaking visuals and yet the film is not merely a work of pure spectacle. Though the story might be deliberately simple, Gravity was conceived around unique writing […]
