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But screenwriters, both those returning from some of the aughts’ most beloved films, as well as the writers of new franchise editions for subsequent modern installments, are setting out to do just that: Make a sequel that’s not only great, but necessary.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
Screenwriter Jordan Weiss, working from a story credited to Weiss and initial screenwriter Elyse Hollander, revisits the characters played by Curtis and Lohan a generation later.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Rocketman screenwriter Lee Hall, who was initially announced as the writer, is still set to write the screenplay.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
The Arizona screenwriter who sold a script to a Hollywood studio probably never expected that California could tax him.
—Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
Screenwriter Jordan Weiss, working from a story credited to Weiss and initial screenwriter Elyse Hollander, revisits the characters played by Curtis and Lohan a generation later.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Rocketman screenwriter Lee Hall, who was initially announced as the writer, is still set to write the screenplay.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
The Arizona screenwriter who sold a script to a Hollywood studio probably never expected that California could tax him.
—Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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The Six Days of the Condor author — whose book became the Robert Redford film Three Days of the Condor and the current Max Irons TV series Condor — has published more than a dozen novels and three times that many short stories, and has also worked as a journalist and a scriptwriter for TV and film.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
16 July 2025
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The growing awareness of feminism in the ’70s spurred Houlihan’s transformation from caricature to real person, but a lot of the change was due to Swit’s influence on the scriptwriters.—
Mark Kennedy,
Chicago Tribune,
30 May 2025
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In 2024, Miranda collaborated with fellow playwright Eisa Davis on the musical project Warriors, a concept album themed after the 1979 film The Warriors.—
Katie Labovitz,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Closely | Opinion The celebrated Lebanese composer and playwright Ziad Rahbani, son of the iconic singer Fairuz, died suddenly on July 26.—
Alia Brahimi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 July 2025
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Our theme this year was the enemy within for the writers’ room.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
16 Aug. 2025
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When work evokes an involuntary emotional response, that is this writer's threshold for the definition of Art.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2022
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Some restaurants lean on postcards that arrive with the check, or an embossed pen, but there’s something about the pocket-sized memento that strikes the right cord between nostalgic and modern.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
13 Aug. 2025
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Slim Shady is still keeping his mind and pen sharp these days.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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