As that example might suggest, Mr Godwin is not a sufficiently original writer to give new life to an old story.

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Brian Jenkins' read on the report, actually, and the post reading of the report kind of spins the report in a different way that doesn't seem to be squaring with the - what the original writer - authors did.

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Original Blade Runner writer Hampton Fancher is in talks to pen an idea for an untitled sequel to the classic sci-fi film for director Ridley Scott and studio Alcon Entertainment.

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Mr Linehan said his mother was an actress and his father was a writer so his original background was in the theatre.

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How can you be writing something original if your main character was invented by another writer?

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Her long life may give the 73-year-old Seidler the distinction of being the oldest writer to win an Oscar for an original screenplay.

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Colin Firth won Best Actor and writer David Seidler, 73, won for Best Original Screenplay.

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Best Screenplay (Original) Memento By far the most clever script of the bunch, writer Christopher Nolan tells a fragmented, disoriented story backwards that nevertheless manages to enthrall.

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Gawker takes the side of the writer, who apparently over-summarized and under-linked to the original content.

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