Who wrote the screenplay for The Incredibles?
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Bird directed and co-wrote Disney's science fiction film "Tomorrowland" (2015), whose screenplay was co-written with Damon Lindelof. Bird returned to Pixar to write and direct "Incredibles 2" (2018). Released 14 years after "The Incredibles" (2004), the sequel received critical acclaim and was a box office success.
Brad Bird
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Disney announced their intentions to develop "Incredibles 2" in March 2014. Bird returned to direct and write the screenplay. Nelson, Hunter, Vowell, Jackson, Bird, and Ratzenberger returned to voice their characters, while Dash was voiced by Huck Milner as Fox's voice had deepened in the intervening years and Rick Dicker was voiced by Jonathan Banks after Bud Luckey retired in 2014. The film is a direct continuation of "The Incredibles". The sequel gives Holly Hunter's character, Elastigirl, a more developed plotline.
The Incredibles
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The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, beating two DreamWorks films, "Shrek 2" and "Shark Tale", as well as Best Sound Editing at the 77th Academy Awards. It also received nominations for Best Original Screenplay (for writer/director Brad Bird) and Best Sound Mixing (Randy Thom, Gary Rizzo and Doc Kane). It was Pixar's first feature film to win multiple Oscars, followed in 2010 by "Up". Joe Morgenstern of "The Wall Street Journal" called "The Incredibles" the year's best picture. "Premiere" magazine released a cross-section of all the top critics in America and "The Incredibles" placed at number three, whereas review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes cross-referenced reviews that suggested it was its year's highest-rated film.
The Incredibles
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Schumacher's first screenplay was for the musical drama "Sparkle" in 1976, which Schumacher had developed with Howard Rosenman before moving to Los Angeles. He also wrote the screenplays for the 1976 low-budget hit movie "Car Wash", 1978's "The Wiz"—an adaptation of the stage play of the same name—and a number of other minor successes. His film directorial debut was "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" in 1981, which starred Lily Tomlin.
Joel Schumacher
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Zak Penn, who wrote a draft of the first film in 1996, said the film would follow up "Hulk", but stressed it would be more tonally similar to the TV show and Bruce Jones' run on the comic. He compared his script to "Aliens", which was a very different film from "Alien", but still in the same continuity. He included two scenes from his 1996 script: Banner jumping from a helicopter to trigger a transformation, and realizing he is unable to have sex with Betty. After the studio rejected a treatment by another screenwriter in 2006, Penn wrote three drafts before departing in early 2007 to promote his film "The Grand". Norton, that April, began discussions to play Banner, and arranged a deal that included him as both an actor and a writer, with a screenplay draft he was contractually obligated to turn in within a month. He did so, and continued to polish his draft as late as halfway through principal photography. In November 2006, a June 13, 2008 release date was set. Leterrier acknowledged the only remaining similarity between the two films was Bruce hiding in South America, and that the film was a unique reboot, as generally audiences would have expected another forty-minute origin story. There were previous discussions to set the first act in Thailand. Leterrier felt audiences were left restless waiting for the character to arrive in Ang Lee's film. Feige commented, "we didn't want to tell the origin story again, because we thought people were so familiar with it, which is why we didn't tell that... One reason we made "Incredible Hulk" was to get Hulk into the [Marvel Cinematic Universe] canon."
The Incredible Hulk (film)
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The Incredible Hulk is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Louis Leterrier, with a screenplay by Zak Penn. It stars Edward Norton as Bruce Banner, alongside Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell, and William Hurt. In "The Incredible Hulk", Bruce Banner becomes the Hulk as an unwitting pawn in a military scheme to reinvigorate the “Super-Soldier” program through gamma radiation. On the run, he attempts to cure himself of the Hulk before he is captured by General Thaddeus Ross, but his worst fears are realized when power-hungry soldier Emil Blonsky becomes a similar, but more bestial creature.
The Incredible Hulk (film)
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"Proof" was created by Tony Philpott, who also wrote the first two episodes of the first series. "Proof" notably made headlines when it was discovered that Philpott's original screenplay had been "dumbed down" by network executives and some of the more politically critical elements had been removed. The screenplay was read by a "Sunday Times" TV critic, who noted the excisions and wrote about them in an article separate to his TV column.
Proof (2004 TV series)
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John and Mary Sweeney co-wrote the screenplay for “The Straight Story,” a motion picture directed by David Lynch. “The Straight Story” premiered at Cannes and was released in October 1999 by Walt Disney Pictures. The screenplay was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and the film’s Richard Farnsworth received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. “Like Hemingway’s dialogue,” wrote Roger Ebert, “the screenplay by John Roach and Mary Sweeney finds poetry and truth in the exact choice of the right everyday words.”
John E. Roach
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Bill Bixby recruited Nicholas Corea, who wrote and/or directed many episodes of the "Incredible Hulk" TV series, to write and direct "The Incredible Hulk Returns". Stan Lee was a consultant on the film. Kenneth Johnson, the creator/executive producer (and sometimes writer/director) of the TV series, was not invited to contribute to the film.
The Incredible Hulk Returns
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Ivory's usual writing partner, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, was unavailable because she was busy writing her novel "Three Continents". Ivory wrote the screenplay with Kit Hesketh-Harvey, who had become connected with Merchant Ivory productions through his sister, journalist and author Sarah Sands (born Sarah Harvey), who was then the wife of Julian Sands, the leading man in "A Room with a View". Hesketh-Harvey had previously written documentaries for the BBC. He had attended Tonbridge School and Cambridge University, where Forster was educated, and knew the background. Ivory later said, "What Kit brought to the script was his social background. He went to Cambridge and a fancy prep school. His knowledge of the British upper middle class that was incredibly useful – the dialect, the speech, the slang, and so many other things. As an American, I could not have possibly written the script without him."
Maurice (film)