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Philip Eisner is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the 1997 science fiction/horror film Event Horizon, which was produced by Paramount and helmed by director Paul W. S. Anderson.
Philip Eisner. Philip Eisner's addiction to screenwriting began with the sale of the second screenplay he wrote. Over twenty years later, he has been unable to kick the habit. He teaches screenwriting on and off at the UCLA Extension Writers Program, and serves as a writing mentor through Cinestory.
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Philip Eisner. Writer: Sweet Girl. Philip Eisner's addiction to screenwriting began with the sale of the second screenplay he wrote. Over twenty years later, he has been unable to kick the habit. He teaches screenwriting on and off at the UCLA Extension Writers Program, and serves as a writing mentor through Cinestory.
- “A Haunted House in Space”
- “We Did Stuff For real.”
- “We’re All in It together.”
- To Hell and Back
- A “Mixed” Reception
Philip Eisner (screenwriter): I love reading physics books. I used to smoke medical marijuana and my idea of falling asleep was, I’d smoke and then I’d read a physics book because being high gave me the illusion that I understood what I was reading. I wanted to do a haunted house in space. It struck me that warping space-time would have a terrible ...
Paul W. S. Anderson (director): I had been in Paris and I walked into Notre Dame Cathedral, which is one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in the world. I thought, “Let’s make it a Gothic haunted house. Let’s make it a cathedral in space, but instead of making it out of stone, let’s make it out of steel.” We scanned Notre Dame into a co...
Paul W. S. Anderson: For all we were making a dark and terrifying movie, we had a lot of fun. Mind you, I wasn’t the one being hung upside-down and spun around. Philip Eisner: Sam Neill may be one of the funniest people to work with. We’re getting notes of varying quality every 15 minutes. In the midst of this, one of the runners comes up and goes,...
Paul W. S. Anderson: We started channeling the work of Hieronymus Bosch and the photography of Joel-Peter Witkin. On the one hand, it was graphic, horrific images, but I wanted it presented in a beautiful way. It repels you but it also attracts you. The images had to be very specifically composed and very specifically lit. That’s why we shot it on ...
Paul W. S. Anderson: It was a rushed campaign because we were on very tight post-production. Philip Eisner: Paul never got his director’s cut. It was never a question of “What’s the right length; what’s the right pace?” It was just “We have to hit the 90-minute mark.” They already had a release date. We were already in the schedule. It’s not uncomm...
Aug 20, 2021 · The main problem here is that—as written by Philip Eisner and Gregg Hurwitz, and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Brian Edward Mendoza—"Sweet Girl" is too long and disorganized, and often just too much, for its own good. It seems to want to be five, possibly six landmark 1990s and early aughts blockbusters at once.
Oct 27, 2008 · Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who endured decades of obscurity and poverty before film versions of “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country for Old Men” and “The Road” brought him a wide readership and financial security, has died at 89.
Philip Eisner is known as an Writer and Co-Producer. Some of his work includes Event Horizon, Sweet Girl, Mutant Chronicles, Firestarter: Rekindled, and Border Patrol.
