We don’t often think of screenwriters as swimming in cash. In fact, the way we talk about films means writers are often ignored in favor of directors. (It’s “Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner,” not “Hampton Fancher and David Peoples’ Blade Runner.”) You can probably name your top five directors, but not your top five screenwriters. This mentality is largely in part to auteur theory, popularized in France in the late 1940s, which upheld the notion that directors are the true storyellers of film.
Though it’s clear today that a whole host of people contribute to each film, especially franchise pictures with astronomical budgets, most writers are still a long way away from becoming household names. Not everyone can ...
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