On The Rise 2. 01. Screenwriters To Watch. It’s that time of year again, when blockbusters start to lull, the fall festival season hasn’t quite begun, and when the movies on release tend to be slimmer pickings. That’s when we like to look to the future and the talents who’ll be shaping it, with our On The Rise season of actors, actresses, writers, directors, cinematographers and composers to watch. We’re nearing the end, and after looking at actresses, actors, composers and cinematographers, for our penultimate piece, we’re investigating the most undervalued member of the core filmmaking team, the screenwriter. While TV is, perhaps more than ever, a writer’s medium, the movies continue to treat scribes like replaceable pieces of machinery — in fact, they’ve even started getting multiple writers to write drafts of the same movie simultaneously and then combining them after the fact (see: “Wonder Woman”). And yet without writers, there are no movies (at least until that “3.

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Rock” joke about a “Transformers” movie “Written By No One” comes true, anyway), and for all the problems facing those who want to create original material, every year sees a wealth of unique and distinctive voices emerge.  In the past, we’ve highlighted people including Kelly Marcel (“Saving Mr Banks”), Graham Moore (“The Imitation Game”), Nicole Perlman (“Guardians Of The Galaxy”), Lucinda Coxon (“The Danish Girl”), Justin Simien (“Dear White People”), Matt Charman (“Bridge Of Spies”) and Tess Morris (“Man Up”). Who’s made our list this time? Watch The Conqueror Download.

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Find out below, and let us know who you’re excited about in the comments. Lydia Adetunji. A former journalist for the Financial Times, British writer Adetunji switched gears and became a playwright, premiering her first play “Fixer,” a political drama set in Nigeria, in 2.

Several other plays followed, including “Compliance,” winner of the Catherine Johnson Award for Best Play in 2. Her short TV film “Camouflage,” starring Lara Pulver, screened in 2. Necropolis” and wartime Bavaria- set horror film “A Little Music” landed on the Brit List (the UK- centric version of the Black List). The latter’s moving ahead at Film. Peaky Blinders” and “Robin Hood: Origins” director Otto Bathurst directing.

She’s heading for the small screen too, collaborating with writer- director Amit Gupta (“Resistance”) and Jim Manos Jr. The Sopranos”) on a drama series for Channel 4. Expect very big things from her. Kristina Lauren Anderson. Topping the Black List is undoubtedly a huge boost for a career, but for every Danny Strong or Graham Moore who’s gone on to a massive TV show like “Empire” or an Oscar- winner like “The Imitation Game,” there’s a Christopher Weekes or Wes Jones who’s still awaiting their first produced movie since their victory. From the looks of how things are going, Kristina Lauren Anderson, the 2.

Anderson was a former assistant to “The Killing Fields” helmer Roland Joffe, whose spec “Forever Jiaying,” about the Nanking Massacre, making the Nicholl Fellowship finals. But her biopic of “Catherine The Great,” now set up with “Dark Knight” producer Charles Roven, topped the Black List last fall (the script had been discovered through the organization’s website), and she’s been hugely in demand since: she’s now writing YA adaptation “Invisibility” for Warners, HMS Bounty story “Life And Death in Eden” for Grand Electric, and co- writing “The Black Count” with Cary Fukunaga. Joe Robert Cole. There’s probably no better way to launch your writing career than with a Marvel movie — after all, they’re about as close as you can get to a guaranteed hit these days, and the studio’s commitment to thriftiness has often seen them hiring relative newcomers, especially thanks to their writing program. The latest to follow in the footsteps of people like Drew Pearce (“Iron Man 3”) and Nicole Perlman (“Guardians Of The Galaxy”) is Joe Robert Cole. The writer first popped up a few years back with supernatural drama “Amber Lake” in 2.

Marvel’s writing program sometime after that. Cole has been working away on a script for “Inhumans,” the secret alien/human hybrid society of superbeings, for a while, and the studio was so happy with his script that they moved the movie into their Phase Three plans, with the movie set to open in July 2. Next up for the up- and- comer is alien invasion pic “Revoc,” for Summit and “Hitman: Agent 4. Aleksander Bach. Matt Cook. It’s taken a while for Matt Cook’s first produced credit to arrive: he had a script on the Black List back in 2. He’s making up for lost time, though, with the next few years set to see a host of new projects from the screenwriter, an Iraq war veteran (read his haunting account of his service, and his return to the country, here). Cook’s calling card was “Triple Nine,” a gritty cop drama that John Hillcoat’s directed with a stellar cast including Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet, Anthony Mackie and Woody Harrelson.

He’s worked again with the latter on the upcoming neo- Western “By Way Of Helena,” directed by Kieran Darcy- Smith, and there’s much more on the way; Nicolas Winding Refn comic book adaptation “Button Man,” Hugh Jackman- starring Biblical tale “Apostle Paul,” Vietnam pic “Matterhorn” (which he’ll also direct), and Otto Bathurst’s prison drama “Three Seconds” with Luke Evans, Josh Brolin, David Oyelowo and Maggie Gyllenhaal, plus an FX drama about prison guards called “Keepers.” Michael Green. Is it possible to recover from having “Green Lantern” on your resumé? For screenwriter Michael Green, it’s entirely possible, given that he’s got some of the biggest movies of the next few years on his dance card. Green began as a writer and producer on “Smallville,” “Everwood” and “Heroes,” and created the excellent, though short- lived series “Kings,” a sci- fi take on the story of King David starring Ian Mc. Shane and Sebastian Stan and directed by Francis Lawrence.

Green Lantern,” sadly, marked his first big- screen credit (in his defence, he was one of the earlier writers on the film), and since then, he’s worked on TV show “The River” and on this year’s Oscar broadcast. The next few years promise to be massive, though: he’s penned “Blade Runner 2” for Denis Villeneuve, “Prometheus 2” for Ridley Scott, and is currently at work on the final “Wolverine” film, plus he’s co- showrunning Starz’ Neil Gaiman adaptation “American Gods” with “Hannibal” mastermind Bryan Fuller. Javier Gullón. It’s hard enough to break through as a screenwriter in Hollywood if English is your first language, but it must be exponentially more difficult if you hail from somewhere else. Fortunately, Javier Gullónhas managed the transition with aplomb. He’s been increasingly in demand at home in Spain over the last few years, with a varied collection of work including rom- com “Road To Santiago” and thriller “Invader.” After English- language debut “Treading Water,” he turned heads in the U.

S. after adapting Jose Saramago’s “The Double” in bleak, beguiling fashion as Denis Villeneuve’s “Enemy” (some of the film’s most memorable additions, including those goddamned spiders, originated with Gullón). The latter’s made him very much in demand with studios: Arnold Schwarzenegger is starring, and Darren Aronofsky producing, in the writer’s revenge movie “4. The Dark Side” for Fox and Steven Zaillian, about a murder on the moon. Julia Hart. A second- generation screenwriter (her father James V. Hart penned “Hook” and “Contact,” among others), Julia Hart was a high- school English teacher for years, but eventually heeded the call of the family business. Her first script for the lean, tough- as- nails feminist Western “The Keeping Room” made the Black List in 2. Brit Marling and Hailee Steinfeld —after deservedly picking up rave reviews on the festival circuit, it hits theaters later this month.

That film’s success has helped break the door down in a major way: she’s adapted novel “Beautiful Disaster” for Warner Bros, and wrote HBO miniseries “Madame X,” about a 1.