In our The Disaster Artist writers interview, Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber explain their approach, recount a ghostly Tommy Wiseau story, and more.
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Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter are the new New Mutants screenwriters. The scribes teamed ith director Josh Boone on The Fault in Our Stars.
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Learn all about the new Richard Linklater Cate Blanchett movie. Blanchett is in talks for the title role in Where'd You Go, Bernadette?.
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Watch the Paper Towns trailer, a new mystery romantic drama following a young man and his friends who go on road trip to find the missing girl next door.
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Watch the first Paper Towns trailer starring Cara Delevingne and Natt Wolff. Based on the bestselling YA novel by The Fault in Our Stars author John Green.
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Get excited John Green fans, a Looking for Alaska movie is finally happening. Plus, it's being adapted by the same writers who did Fault in Our Stars.
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Phil Lord and Chris Miller are eyeing The Rosie Project, based on the book by Graeme Simsion. Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber (TFIOS) wrote the script.
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They've scripted indies, novel adaptations and off-kilter romances such as (500) Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now, and The Fault in Our Stars. Now Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber are scripting The Disaster Artist for James Franco, based on the book that details the making of cult film The Room. Metro reports that the screenwriting…
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James Ponsoldt's wonderful film The Spectacular Now hits theaters August 2. It's one of those serious, emotional, yet magical coming of age stories in the mold of films from the Eighties and Nineties. Films like Say Anything, Dazed and Confused, Almost Famous and The Breakfast Club. All four of those certainly influenced The Spectacular Now and…
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There are more YA adaptations in development right now than we can count, but Fox 2000's The Fault in Our Stars stands out for a couple of reasons. First, it features no paranormal creatures or dystopian societies whatsoever. Second, the novel by John Green is a critically acclaimed crossover hit -- it was even named…
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At the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, I was blown away by a film called (500) Days of Summer. When I interviewed director Marc Webb in Park City that year, he exclusively revealed that he was working with the 500 Days writing team of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber on a adaptation of Tim Tharp's…
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The team behind The Master and Zero Dark Thirty has agreed to bring a recent popular novel to the big screen, and they've got some high-end indie screenwriters to make it work. Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures has teamed up with Hunger Games producing team Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson to purchase the rights to Where'd…
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Just as we're enjoying the last of 2012's cinematic offerings, the latest edition of the Black List has hit the web. The annual survey highlights the hottest unproduced screenplays of the year, as based on the votes of hundreds of executives. The term "unproduced" is used rather vaguely here. Some of these scripts (like Ivan…
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Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber quickly established themselves as new talents to watch with their original dramedy (500) Days of Summer. Since then, though, the pair have shown a distinctly literary bent as they've lined up one book adaptation after another: The Spectacular Now, When You Were Mine (called Rosaline in the movie version), and…
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Hailee Steinfeld, Dave Franco, and Deborah Ann Woll have been offered the leads in Rosaline, a retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet that's told from the perspective of the girl Romeo ditches to be with Juliet. Michael Sucsy is directing from a script by by (500) Days of Summer writers Scott Neustader and Michael H. Weber, which in…
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Ashton Kutcher's last few films haven't been massive earners, but now he is poised to make a film that could bring him to a fresh young audience. He is part of a project set up at Sony called What Would Kenny Do?, in which a 17-year old encounters his 30-year old self. Oh, that old…
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John Hillcoat's revived project The Wettest County in the World has Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy set to appear when the film shoots later this year, and there is word that Mia Wasikowska might grab the main female role if her schedule permits. While we wait for that to be sorted out, here's word that…
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Warner Bros Pictures has acquired the big screen adaptation of James Collins' novel Beginner's Greek. I Love You Man, Observe and Report and Green Lantern producer Donald De Line has hired 500 Days of Summer screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber to pen the adaptation. If I had a list of new screenwriters to…
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One of the many reasons I loved 500 Days of Summer is the clever screenwriting. And by clever writing I don't mean overwritten dialogue ala Diablo Cody, but fantastic story beats that take full advantage of the film medium. Fox Searchlight has released a new clip which perfectly illustrates what I'm talking about. As you…
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On Tuesday, we ran an exclusive news scoop about the next project from the director and writers of 500 Days of Summer -- Marc Webb and writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber are developing a big screen adaptation of Tim Tharp's The Spectacular Now. Tonight Hollywood tradepaper Variety is running the same bit of…
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500 Days of Summer seems to be the big buzz film of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Yesterday I got a chance to sit down with director Marc Webb (full interview will be posted later in the week), who slipped a bit of news regarding his possible follow-up. Marc revealed that his is developing a…
Read MoreThe last recent rom-com I watched (re: politely forced) was Music and Lyrics, which was so amazingly terrible it even made the domineering rental-picker blush. One of the problems nowadays with this genre is an utter void of chemistry between the leads in favor of "mall hot" eugenics. Feh to that! Without even knowing the…
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