Editing Screenwriting (section)

==Portrayed in film==
Screenwriting has been the focus of a number of films:

* ''[[Crashing Hollywood (1931 film)|Crashing Hollywood]]'' (1931)&mdash;A screenwriter collaborates on a gangster movie with a real-life gangster. When the film is released, the mob does not like how accurate the movie is.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030022/| title=Internet Movie Database listing of Crashing Hollywood| website=[[IMDb]]| access-date=2018-06-29| archive-date=2017-06-26| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626033529/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030022/| url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Sunset Boulevard (1950 film)|Sunset Boulevard]]'' (1950)&mdash;Actor [[William Holden]] portrays a hack screenwriter forced to collaborate on a screenplay with a desperate, fading [[silent film]] star, played by [[Gloria Swanson]].
*''[[In a Lonely Place]]'' (1950)&mdash;[[Humphrey Bogart]] is a washed up screenwriter who gets framed for murder.
* ''[[Paris, When it Sizzles]]'' (1964)&mdash;[[William Holden]] plays a drunk screenwriter who has wasted months partying and has just two days to finish his script. He hires [[Audrey Hepburn]] to help.
* ''[[Barton Fink]]'' (1991)&mdash;[[John Turturro]] plays a naïve New York playwright who comes to Hollywood with high hopes and great ambition. While there, he meets one of his writing idols, a celebrated novelist from the past who has become a drunken hack screenwriter (a character based on [[William Faulkner]]).
* ''[[Mistress (1992 film)|Mistress]]'' (1992)&mdash;In this comedy written by [[Barry Primus]] and [[J. F. Lawton]], [[Robert Wuhl]] is a screenwriter/director who's got integrity, vision, and a serious script &mdash; but no career. [[Martin Landau]] is a sleazy producer who introduces Wuhl to [[Robert De Niro]], [[Danny Aiello]] and [[Eli Wallach]] - three guys willing to invest in the movie, but with one catch: each one wants his mistress to be the star.
* ''[[The Player (1992 film)|The Player]]'' (1992)&mdash;In this satire of the Hollywood system, [[Tim Robbins]] plays a movie producer who thinks he's being blackmailed by a screenwriter whose script was rejected.
* ''[[Adaptation (film)|Adaptation]]'' (2002)&mdash;[[Nicolas Cage]] portrays real-life screenwriter [[Charlie Kaufman]] (as well as his fictional brother, Donald) as Kaufman struggles to adapt an esoteric book ([[Susan Orlean]]’s real-life nonfiction work ''[[The Orchid Thief]]'' ) into an action-filled Hollywood screenplay.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/adaptation_intview4.php| title=Interview with Charlie Kaufman| publisher=chasingthefrog.com| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810022733/http://chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/adaptation_intview4.php| archive-date=2007-08-10}}</ref>
* ''[[Dreams on Spec]]'' (2007)&mdash;The only documentary to follow aspiring screenwriters as they struggle to turn their scripts into movies, the film also features wisdom from established scribes like [[James L. Brooks]], [[Nora Ephron]], [[Carrie Fisher]], and [[Gary Ross]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-18-et-scriptland18-story.html | title=Producers, writers face huge chasm: Compensation for digital media and residuals for reuse of content are major issues as contract talks begin | journal=Los Angeles Times | date=July 18, 2007 | author=Jay A. Fernandez | access-date=June 7, 2016 | archive-date=December 30, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230062434/http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/18/entertainment/et-scriptland18 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[Seven Psychopaths]]'' (2012)&mdash;In this satire, written and directed by [[Martin McDonagh]], [[Colin Farrell]] plays a screenwriter who is struggling to finish his screenplay ''Seven Psychopaths'', but finds unlikely inspiration after his best friend steals a Shih Tzu owned by a vicious gangster.
* ''[[Trumbo (2015 film)|Trumbo]]'' (2015)&mdash;Highly successful Hollywood screenwriter [[Dalton Trumbo]], played in this [[biopic]] by [[Bryan Cranston]], is targeted by the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] for his socialist views, sent to federal prison for refusing to cooperate, and [[House Un-American Activities Committee#Hollywood blacklist|blacklisted]] from working in Hollywood, yet continues to write and subsequently wins two Academy Awards while using pseudonyms.