Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Poor Things, the darkly comedic genre-bender penned by Tony McNamara that marks ...

Deadline’s annual Read the Screenplay series highlights the scripts for the year’s buzziest awards-season movies. This year, we snagged all 10 Oscar-nominated adapted and original screenplays as ...

Australian screenwriter Tony McNamara loves Poor Things, but he didn't think millions of other people would too. "In my mind, I thought, 'we're probably made a very polarising movie,'" he says. "We ...

Screenplays usually have a three-act structure, and the experience of writing a screenplay seems often to have the same. Status quo. I’m at lunch with Yorgos Lanthimos. We’re going into preproduction ...

A screenplay is the written version of a film or an episode of television. Simple, right? Wrong. Unlike a completed work, such as a novel or a short story, a screenplay is the first in a long series ...

Tony McNamara is speaking to Screen International the day he receives a Bafta adapted screenplay nomination for Poor Things — but he shows little sign of being fazed by the accolade. ”It’s a good day, ...