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Posted by Matt Holmes

The job of a screenwriter is easily as important to a film as that of the director, the cast, the budget and the subject matter. So many films time and time again don’t work because of script problems, especially big Hollywood sequels where writers are hired to conceieve ideas and complete a script in such a small space of time.

So it’s baffling to think that screenwriters are grossly under-paid. Unless you are the top 2-3 in the industry, you are usually treated like crap and paid next to nothing compared to the other talent involved in the movie but it’s your work that usually makes or breaks a film. That’s why so many writers turn to directing as soon as they get a small foot hold in the industry.

That’s what scribe Guillermo Arriaga has done as he plans to shoot The Burning Plain in November for 2929 Productions. The script which he has wrote himself once again has the inter-connecting storylines which connect together at the film’s climax like they did in his movies Babel, 21 Grams and Amores Perros… all of which were helmed by his good fellow Mexican pal Alejandro González Iñárritu.

“There are very intense love stories here that take place in different places and times, with characters trying to find the healing powers of love, forgiveness and redemption”, said Arriaga

Variety says Charlize Theron will star in the movie as Sylvia, a daughter who tries to find a common ground with her parents after a troubled childhood.

Theron’s a great actress and Arriaga has wrote some powerful stuff in the past, although I would say his scripts do come across as being a little contrived at times. It will be interesting to see if he copies the Iñárritu style or whether he has some of his own directorial tricks up his sleeve.

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Further Reading

• Kim Basinger on board THE BURNING PLAIN

• Pierce Brosnan wants Charlize Theron over Angelina Jolie for THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR 2

• Charlize Theron hitches a ride on THE ROAD

• Theron playing a Hollywood actress & inventor?

• Nicole Kidman as world’s first Post-Op Transexual, opposite his/her wife Charlize Theron in THE DANISH GIRL!

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