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5 days ago · Faced with adapting Vikas Swarup’s episodic novel about an Indian teenager who wins big on a TV quiz show and gets accused of cheating, Simon Beaufoy faced massive challenges—beyond imposing a filmic structure, Beaufoy wanted a different emotional hook.
13 hours ago · According to Loveleen Tandan, the screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, who wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire (2008), "studied Salim-Javed's kind of cinema minutely." In particular, Deewaar was praised by Danny Boyle and influenced the making of Slumdog Millionaire.
5 days ago · 127 Hours is a 2010 biographical survival drama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle, based on the memoir Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2003) by Aron Ralston. It stars James Franco as real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston, who becomes trapped by a boulder while canyoneering alone in Blue John Canyon ...
3 days ago · The show opened last night at the New Theatre in Cardiff and I think it’s fair to say that each and every one of us in the auditorium loved this brand new production of SIMON BEAUFOY’S play.
4 days ago · Among Giants is a 1998 British film directed by Sam Miller, and written by Simon Beaufoy, fresh from his success with The Full Monty. It is set in Yorkshire, and stars Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths and James Thornton.
3 days ago · Before he wrote The Full Monty, Simon Beaufoy came up with Among Giants. Sadly, it didn’t have anywhere near as much success as its cheekier counterpart. But it’s still worth a watch, if only because the premise of the film is painting power towers in a 15-mile stretch just outside Sheffield.
2 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
