January 7, 2024 @ 3:05 PM
On Wednesday the authors’ branch of the Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) introduced that the screenplay for “Barbie” will certainly be thought about an adapted help this year’s honors reveal. Days later on, movie supervisor and manufacturer Judd Apatow differed with the judgment, tweeting, “It’s insulting to the writers to say they were working off of existing material. There was no existing material or story. There was a clear box.”
While some on Twitter appeared prepared to side with Apatow’s review, a number of film writers took the supervisor to job to describe why his warm take had not been so warm besides.
Nic Curio supplied a collection of tweets. He created, “Hi, screenwriter who pitches on lots of IP chiming in here … It doesn’t matter if there’s no existing story embedded into the property. Whether it’s a video game, Creepypasta, candy bar, or board game — you’re being hired to ‘adapt.’ Even if all you’re given is literally a title.”
Curio took place to share that he has actually pitched a number of well-known jobs to workshops. “Branded projects I have pitched on similar to ‘Barbie’: Mad Libs, Monopoly, Peeps candy, etc.,” he created. “These are ‘adaptation’ jobs and the WGA rates would be for ‘adapted screenplay,’ which is the same verbiage [and] job Noah and Greta were paid to do. It’s an adapted screenplay!”
He proceeded, “I’m not saying this is fair, but it’s the way the industry has worked since movies based on toys became a thing. As it stands, the Oscars have made the right call.”
“Also, for the record, these gigs are just as hard to pull off, even if you’re dealing with great source material — and there’s nothing ‘insulting’ about being a writer who adapts IP,” Curcio included.
The film writer ended, “Someone has pointed out to me that Greta/Noah got a ‘written by’ credit, which means the WGA deemed it an original script. I don’t know how they swung that, but I still think the Academy made the right call. They did not create Barbie and Ken. They adapted existing characters.”
John Murphy, a film writer on a number of Netflix jobs consisting of “Gnome Alone” and “Dog Gone Trouble,” was additionally vital of Apatow’s take, recommending that probably the “Knocked Up” filmmaker’s words were the actual issue.
“Does Judd think Adapted Screenplay is the kids’ table of screenwriting awards categories?” Murphy tweeted. “That seems like the real insult here.”
Society author Ben Rosenstock resembled this. He shared, “This is only insulting if you view winning the Adapted Screenplay award as an inherently less significant accomplishment than winning an Original Screenplay award, which it really isn’t.”
Oscar-nominated film writer Josh Olson appeared amazed by Apatow’s contempt for adapted movie scripts. He tweeted, “As a rule, people not in the business have a tendency to believe that adapted screenplays are just transcriptions of something already written, but coming from someone in the business, it’s a bizarre complaint. Also, the whole movie plays beautifully on existing Barbie mythology.”
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, the cowriters for “Barbie” (Gerwig additionally guided the movie) have actually not talked about the AMPAS choice.
