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He began his career as a playwright, penning the off-Broadway plays Ginger Anne [2] and The Love Nest. [3] He is best known for having written the original screenplay of The Deer Hunter after having co-written the story with Michael Cimino, with whom he had previously worked on scripting the science fiction film, Silent Running in 1971. [4] The ...
Apr 22, 2024 · While the final script had only one credited screenplay writer, Deric Washburn, its four "story by" credits attest to the long road that led to its ultimate form. What became The Deer Hunter started as The Man Who Came to Play, a high-stakes gambling movie set in Las Vegas and centered on Russian Roulette.
Dec 23, 2018 · According to Michael Cimino, he would call Deric Washburn while on the road scouting for locations and feed him notes on dialogue and story.
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The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Slavic-American [3] [4] [5] steelworkers whose lives are upended after fighting in the Vietnam War. The three soldiers are played by Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage, with John Cazale (in his final role), Meryl ...
Much of its success The Deer Hunter owes to its stellar cast: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, Meryl Streep and John Cazale in his last performance ever, as he died shortly upon wrapping the film, made sure Deric Washburn and Cimino’s story, based on Louis Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker’s spec script entitled The Man Who ...
Oct 16, 2012 · Seeing the potential in The Man Who Came to Play, Cimino hired his Silent Running co-writer Deric Washburn to craft a screenplay that set the tale more firmly within the Viet Nam conflict.
Mar 12, 2021 · Mar 12, 2021. Screenplay by Deric Washburn, story by Michael Cimino & Deric Washburn and Louis Garfinkle & Quinn K. Redeker. A trailer for the movie: A tweet about the Page One post: Yep, Paul, you’re right. Overlong paragraphs of scene description. Directing jargon. Camera shots. Music cues. Titles. Two comments.
