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Meanwhile the screenwriter Nora Garrett addressed the difficulty of tackling complex and hot-button issues like cancel culture in her script.
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Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
Adapted by The Menu screenwriter Will Tracy (who also worked on Succession), the film unfolds like a ticking clock, counting down the last days until a lunar eclipse.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
The story of these characters run parallel to that of a screenwriter and film director, exploring how life and fiction are inseparably linked, sometimes painfully so.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2025
That Mackenzie and screenwriter Justin Piasecki directly quote several Michael Mann films should come as no surprise.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
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Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
Adapted by The Menu screenwriter Will Tracy (who also worked on Succession), the film unfolds like a ticking clock, counting down the last days until a lunar eclipse.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
The story of these characters run parallel to that of a screenwriter and film director, exploring how life and fiction are inseparably linked, sometimes painfully so.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2025
That Mackenzie and screenwriter Justin Piasecki directly quote several Michael Mann films should come as no surprise.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/screenwriter. Accessed 1 Sep. 2025.
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screenwriter
noun
screen·writ·er
-ˌrīt-ər 
: a writer of screenplays
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