Friday, August 15, 2014

'Guardians of the Galaxy', women writers and kicking down doors


Guardians of the Galaxy has enjoyed critical success, with 92% "fresh" on aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and incredible commercial success, as it's destroyed August box office records.


It was also co-written by a woman: Nicole Perlman.


Guardians of the Galaxy is the first Marvel Studios movie to be penned by a woman screenwriter. Perlman is only the second woman to have a major writing credit on a Marvel property's big screen adaptations (the first was Jane Goldman, on X-Men: First Class). Here's why she's getting so much attention.


Perlman


Perlman has always been interested in science and science fiction, and studied screenwriting at NYU. She gained serious interest when her script about the Challenger mission, written on spec, hit the...


Continue reading…






from Polygon - All http://ift.tt/1t3Oy3p

No comments:

Post a Comment

//go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=604252