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Career. Smith wrote and directed the 2006 film Séance, which won the Festival Prize at the Eureka Springs Digital Film Festival and the Horror Genre Award at ShockFest. Since then he has worked as a screenwriter. Smith's writing credits include the 2007 horror film Vacancy and its prequel, Vacancy 2: The First Cut, [1] and the 2009 Joe Dante ...
Jan 7, 2016 · In all of my previous drafts, Glass’s son dies before the film started, so we open in a flashback where Glass and his boy are carving a star into the boy’s hunting rifle, but the boy is clearly sick, and a little drop of his blood from a splinter drips into the star and seeps into the wood.
- The Bear Attack Proves Why Writing Descriptive, Specific Action Is Essential
- There Are Four Stages of Collaboration When Working with Iñárritu on A Script
- The Revenant Is Not A Revenge Story
In the script, Smith wrote very specific action beats for the bear attack. Smith's version of the bear attack sequence uses cross-cuts between the attack and the rest of the party running through the woods to find Glass. Smith credits Iñárritu for making a really smart choice not to cut away during the bear attack so the audience can't escape, just...
Smith loved collaborating with Iñárritu on this project, and explained that there are four stages of collaboration when working with the director on the script: I would write some pages, and he would write some pages. That was stage one. And then stage two was we would swap, and he would read mine and I would read his. And then stage three, we woul...
The full title of the novel upon which the film is based is "The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge." But for Smith, the film The Revenantis not a revenge story. Smith noted that Fitzgerald's line at the end of the film telling Glass that he is never getting his son back may be a little "on the nose," but it drives home the point for Glass that revenge i...
- Christopher Boone
Writing The Boys in the Boat. Directed by George Clooney, The Boys in the Boat is about the “University of Washington’s rowing team, from their Depression-era beginnings to winning gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. ” With most of the plot laid out, Smith could focus on character and dialogue. “ Authors are such better writers than me ...
Dec 21, 2017 · According to Deadline, Mark L. Smith, the screenwriter of The Revenant, will pen the script for Tarantino’s R-rated take on the exploits of the Enterprise.
- Jordan Crucchiola
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Dec 15, 2023 · But as shepherded by Clooney and screenwriter Mark L. Smith (who also wrote Clooney’s dreadful 2020 sci-fi drama The Midnight Sky), The Boys in the Boat is as dry as its title characters get wet.
Dec 22, 2015 · By Brian Gallagher. Published Dec 22, 2015. Screenwriter Mark L. Smith talks development of The Revenant, the 'bear rape' scene, working with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and much more ...
