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- By 2024, Frank had worked on nearly 60 films, including uncredited rewrites on films such as Saving Private Ryan, Entrapment, Dawn of the Dead, Night at the Museum and Gravity.
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Dec 25, 2023 · Frank has been hired to touch up nearly sixty Hollywood scripts, perhaps more than any other contemporary screenwriter. “I even rewrote a movie called ‘Paycheck,’ ” he joked. Photograph by Greg...
A prominent film producer told me, “For a long time, Scott Frank was the name people would bring up as a cautionary tale about the dangers of the rewrite system. This was someone who could be the next William Goldman, but he kept doing these weekly rewrites instead of his own original work.”
Jan 22, 2024 · He has done rewrites on nearly sixty films—possibly more than any other contemporary screenwriter—including “Saving Private Ryan,” “Night at the Museum,” “Unfaithful,” “The Ring,” and “Gravity.” (He also did “a lot of the X-Men movies,” he told me, adding, “I don’t remember their titles.”)
- Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Jan 14, 2024 · Scott Frank Plops Sam Spade in ’60s France in TV’s ‘Monsieur Spade’. The rewrite master teamed with Tom Fontana to reinvent this enduring masculine icon, now played by Clive Owen. By Anne ...
SF: Once or twice I’ve been asked to rewrite a movie that didn’t need rewriting. They were very special scripts, and I didn’t do it. I just said ‘I don’t know what to do, what you’ve got is a great script, and I don’t know what to do’. Those movies weren’t made, they were tough movies anyway to get made. But not often.
Here's an example. At the 2017 Austin Film Festival, Craig Mazin did a Q&A conversation with Scott Frank. I took copious notes and wrote a three-part series featuring Frank's comments. https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/scott-frank-on-the-writers-life-5d7de0bc9e56. Thanks for sharing the New Yorker link. Definitely worth reading.
Jan 1, 2024 · Scott Frank Discusses The Films He’s Worked On As A Script Doctor, Including ‘Saving Private Ryan,’ ‘Gravity’ And “A Lot Of The X-Men Movies”
