Screenwriter

Pacific Rim TV series in development from Arrival screenwriter

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Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer is developing a Pacific Rim TV series for Legendary Entertainment, which will be a prequel to the movies. Fire up the Jaegers! Variety reports that Legendary Entertainment is developing a Pacific Rim TV series with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Heisserer. Heisserer recently entered a first-look television deal with Legendary, and this … Read more

Chinatown screenwriter Robert Towne has died at 89.

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Robert Towne, who wrote the Academy Award-winning screenplay for Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, has died at the age of 89. Robert Towne, the screenwriter who wrote the Academy Award-winning original script for Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, has died at the age of 89. His publicist, Carri Mclure, announced that Towne died at his home in Los Angeles … Read more

What You Do is Who You Are: Irena’s Vow Screenwriter Dan Gordon on Telling the Story of a Teenager Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust | Interviews

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I loaded up my car on a Thursday. On Friday, I got into my office and the phone rang; a female voice said, “Please hold for Mr. Wasserman. I was positive that was one of my friends playing a joke on me because Lou Wasserman didn’t know I was alive. So, I said, “You know … Read more