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3 days ago · Frank Pierson was hired to write the screenplay. Aside from Kluge and Moore's research, Pierson conducted his own. He contacted journalist Randy Wicker, who covered the story of the heist for gay publications, and provided technical assistance regarding Manhattan's gay nightclub scene.
3 days ago · Producer Frank Doelger and journalist Alasdair Palmer had previously travelled to Geneva and interviewed Riegner (Doelger 2020: 18:00–18:35). One surviving fifty-three-page transcript of a subsequent interview with Riegner conducted by Frank Pierson, Loring Mandel, and Frank Doelger can be found in the Loring Mandel Collection.
5 days ago · Written by Pakula and Frank Pierson, the screenplay followed the life of a prosecutor who gets charged with the murder of his colleague, with whom he had a sexual affair. Unlike the series, the film explores different narrative threads, more from the life of the dead colleague and strikingly less about the prosecutor’s wife and family.
Jun 29, 2024 · Frank Pierson won an Oscar for his witty, tense, and emotional screenplay based on a real-life Brooklyn bank heist in 1972, with Al Pacino giving one of his most indelible performances as the stressed-out robber.
Jun 11, 2024 · He spent a year rewriting the original script with screenwriter Frank Pierson. The director told Entertainment Weekly, ”Scott dealt with the most grotesque, lurid material — infidelity, kinky sex, murder. And he conveyed it in this disciplined, rational, one might say lawyerly way.
Jun 26, 2024 · The story, developed by Thomas Moore and scripted by Frank Pierson, plays to Lumet’s strengths as a director. It allows for the unusual rhythms and camera angles of his filmmaking to capture the tension and atmosphere of a high-street stick-up gone awry.
Jun 11, 2024 · “Presumed Innocent” was produced by “Tootsie” director Sydney Pollack, fresh from winning Oscars for “Out of Africa, and co-written by Frank Pierson, among the most revered of all screenwriters. John Williams did the music.
