Icarus

Y'all are crazy! Have you seen Barry?

Pitchfork is a totally different script, but a good one!

That is So. Cool. Fun fact: Yip Harburg recycled a lyric that went unused in the film but which survives in the stage production-- "Follow the rainbow over the stream; follow the fellow who follows his dream"-- for a song in "Finnian's Rainbow." This is the only instance I'm aware of in which a lyricist plagiarized himself.

@George: tight and consistent, sure. But "tight" in this case just amounted to "Cliff's notes plot points"-- mom was abused, escaped, went to school, got cancer, died, brother didn't know how to deal with it, Cheryl became an addict-- all of which we've seen a billion times before. WILD, to me, didn't add any unique perspective on any of it. It was just a recitation of "family tragedy" tropes.

@shadow: on that, we agree!

@Scott: There's a ton of craftsmanship and talent involved in writing a screenplay like gotg, but at the end of the day, it's not really trying to do anything except be reasonably diverting. Nothing wrong with that (not everything can or should strive for ha igher purpose), but it's a sad day when that represents one of the "highest achievements in screenwriting" for an entire freaking year. (That being said, there are-- gasp-- politics behind these awards, and gotg benefi...

That Best Adapted list is pretty sad.

I've always hear that WB, alone amongst the studios, takes scripts writers have turned in and has them retyped to WB standard. I guess these are the people who do that?

John Logan's "Miraculous Year," which HBO never aired. ):

But really? I know plenty of people who make livings writing for film and/or TV. I've made a living in features the last few years, albeit not a grand one. So either I know a truly outlier-y collection of folks or this is a misleadingly cropped snapshot of the facts. Nobody slit your wrists just yet.

Crimes and Misdemeanors!

Pretty sure USC and AFI have them, at least for writers.

FYI, the subway scene is pretty much exactly the rooftop scene from the British version.

Listen Up Philip? Love is Strange?

There are definitely some 40+ writers on this list.

John Milius