are Sam Raimi and Brandon Thaxton both screenwriters?
Sam Raimi Samuel M "Sam" Raimi ( ; born October 23, 1959) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor, famous for creating the cult horror "Evil Dead" series, as well as directing the original "Spider-Man" trilogy (2002–07), the 1990 superhero film "Darkman" and the "I Will Rip Your Soul Out" scene from the 2013 remake of "Evil Dead". His most recent film is the 2013 Disney fantasy film "Oz the Great and Powerful".
Samuel Hoffenstein Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein (October 8, 1890 - October 6, 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Russia, he emigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business. In 1931 he moved to Los Angeles, where he lived for the rest of his life and where he wrote the scripts for over thirty movies. These movies included "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1931), "The Miracle Man" (1932), "Phantom of the Opera" (1943), "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), "Tales of Manhattan" (1942), "Flesh and Fantasy" (1943), "Laura" (1944), and Ernst Lubitsch's "Cluny Brown" (1946).