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Which is why the director and screenwriter of Black Bag have devised an easy one-stop-shop solution for the couple at the center of their espionage thriller.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
One of the men in the background of the episode’s opening scenes, for example, is Jerry Stahl, the novelist and screenwriter whose 1995 memoir Permanent Midnight became a movie in 1998 starring Severance boss Ben Stiller.
—Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
Before that, the house was originally owned by the late William Roberts, creator of The Donna Reed Show and a screenwriter for The Magnificent Seven.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2025
The film, which is based on the memoir of the novelist and screenwriter Marcelo Rubens Paiva, follows a Brazilian middle-class family as its members grapple with the aftermath of the military dictatorship that disappeared the father in the seventies.
—Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
One of the men in the background of the episode’s opening scenes, for example, is Jerry Stahl, the novelist and screenwriter whose 1995 memoir Permanent Midnight became a movie in 1998 starring Severance boss Ben Stiller.
—Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
Before that, the house was originally owned by the late William Roberts, creator of The Donna Reed Show and a screenwriter for The Magnificent Seven.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2025
The film, which is based on the memoir of the novelist and screenwriter Marcelo Rubens Paiva, follows a Brazilian middle-class family as its members grapple with the aftermath of the military dictatorship that disappeared the father in the seventies.
—Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/screenwriter. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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screenwriter
noun
screen·writ·er
-ˌrīt-ər 
: a writer of screenplays
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