Did anyone think the writing was one of the strengths of Top Gun: Maverick?
The USC Scripter noms are here and hey, they picked Top Gun! I had no idea that the original movie was actually based on a magazine article. That bodes well for Top Gun getting into adapted screenplay, which is pretty weak this year and doesn’t really have a frontrunner for the category. We’ll see what Scripter does with it.
2023 USC SCRIPTER NOMINEES
Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale and Matthew Robbins
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix)
Based on the fairy tale The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (Penguin Classics)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Living (Sony Pictures Classics)
Based on the novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (Penguin Classics)
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
She Said (Universal)
Based on the nonfiction book She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (Penguin Press)
Peter Craig, Ehren Kruger, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie and Eric Warren
Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount)
Based on characters from the 1983 California magazine article “Top Guns” by Ehud Yonay
Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews
Women Talking (Orion/MGM)
Based on Toews’ novel of the same name (Bloomsbury)
