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Oct 11, 2023 · "I'm very happy with the cast." CLENNON credits screenwriter Bill Lancaster with building such memorable protagonists in the screenplay: "He created these characters and gave them dialogue. I think that's why I wanted to do the film because I sensed on my first reading that the way these 12 men interacted, he had sort of elevated the form.
Oct 18, 2022 · Masur said he was instantly hooked on doing “The Thing” because the film was being directed by maverick filmmaker John Carpenter, starring Kurt Russell and shooting from a taut and riveting script written by Bill Lancaster (the son of Academy Award-winning actor Burt Lancaster).
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Jun 26, 2022 · Bill Lancaster started writing the latter in 1979 and took four drafts to finish it. ... Carpenter’s meticulous filmmaking, and an ensemble cast operating at top nerve-shredding capacity.
Bill Lancaster (1947-1997) Bill Lancaster. Writer. Actor. Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Bill was known by his friends as "Billy", when he was a youth. He attended "public" school, as many actor's sons and daughters did in the 1960s. He was never athletic since he was stricken with a childhood disease.
- Writer, Actor, Producer
- November 17, 1947
- Bill Lancaster
- January 4, 1997
Apr 7, 2016 · The Bad News Bears, from Bill Lancaster’s WGA-winning screenplay about a Southern California Little League team comprised of an alcoholic coach, a female pitcher, and “a bunch of jews, sp*cs, ni**ers, pansies, and a booger-eating moron,” opened 40 years ago this week, and for the occasion The Bits features a compilation of box-office data that places the movie’s performance in context ...
Lancaster played the role of "King", the boyfriend of a murdered college student in The Midnight Man (1974), a mystery film starring and co-directed by his father. Lancaster's best-known work is his adapted screenplay for John Carpenter 's The Thing. [3] He also penned the original screenplays for two of The Bad News Bears films.
Oct 13, 2011 · The film is set on a research base in Antarctica, and the entire cast is male. Scriptwriter Bill Lancaster explained the lack of women in The Thing like this: In reality there aren't any...
