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Steve Shibuya is an American screenwriter. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2011 film Sucker Punch along with director Zack Snyder. References
Steve Shibuya is known for Sucker Punch (2011), Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) and No Rest for the Wicked (1998).
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Mar 24, 2011 · Steve Shibuya is probably very excited now that Sucker Punch, the movie he co-wrote with director Zack Snyder, is finally hitting theaters this weekend. It’s been a project that took 10 years to imagine, mold and write with his former classmate who, in the meantime, went on to direct films like Dawn of the Dead, 300 and Watchmen.
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is an action-adventure film about a girl who attempts to break free from a mental asylum, receding into her fantastical imagination along the way. It's the first original project produced by Cruel and Unusual Films and director Zack Snyder. Their previous projects were all part of pre-existing franchises in some form.
The project was conceived by Snyder in 1996, at which point Snyder turned to his film school classmate, Steve Shibuya, to write the script. When the pitch was eventually picked up by Warner Bros., Snyder reworked the script for the final movie. Sucker Punch remains as Shibuya's only writing credit, as his path led him toward production.
was Zack's first wholly original project (as opposed to remakes or adaptations of material from other media). While Zack hatched the idea, the original version of the screenplay was penned by Snyder's classmate, Steve Shibuya. Zack began full-time work on the movie in March 2007, over ten years after the project was first conceived, but he put it aside to film Watchmen.
Snyder returned to the story he described as "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns" in 2009, when Warner Bros. agreed to distribute project, which would be produced by Zack and Deborah's Cruel & Unusual Films, Inc. Snyder told Entertainment Weekly in 2009 that he was looking to assemble an all-female cast for his new movie, since he "already did the all-male cast with 300, so I'm doing the opposite end of the spectrum." Among the actresses he was considering at the time were Amanda Seyfried, Evan Rachel Wood, and Emma Stone, as well as eventual final cast members Abbie Cornish and Vanessa Hudgens.
Zack starting making Sucker Punch an R-rated movie, but as production continued, he readjusted his sights for the PG-13 rating with which it was released in theaters. Major cuts to the storyline were made to satisfy the MPAA, resulting in a gutted and somewhat confusing storyline. Snyder was able to restore a small portion of the material for the "extended cut" on Blu-ray and DVD, but still hopes to release the full director's cut in the future.
Snyder explained his name for the movie thusly:
was shot at 360 frames per second on film.
Steve Shibuya is a screenwriter who attended ArtCenter College of Design with Zack Snyder where the two met. During this time, Shibuya appeared in " For a Moment Alive ", one of Snyder's student films.
Steve Shibuya is known as an Gaffer, Grip, Special Effects Assistant, Actor, Key Grip, First Assistant Camera, Animation Production Assistant, Additional Camera, Second Unit, and Screenplay. Some of his work includes Sucker Punch.
Mar 23, 2011 · Written with Steve Shibuya, Sucker Punch is Snyder's first wholly original film (Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen and Legend of the Guardians were based on other works). It centers on Baby Doll (Emily Browning), a young woman who retreats into a fantasy world to escape the horrors of a mental institution.
