Ronald Bass

...this big-budget clunker for repairs. The biggest blunder turns out to be a misguided screenplay, written by the normally reliable Ron Bass ("Rain Man") and Anna Hamilton Phelan ("Gorillas in the Mist"). Rather than play up the meaty context...

In this article: Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Amelia, Richard Gere, Ron Bass, Mira Nair, Hilary Swank, and Oscar

...another picture, the Mumbai-based thriller "Shantaram," in development with Johnny Depp. Now, with Nair, Bass continued to work on the screenplay. But Nair's vision for the film was very different from his. Bass saw the picture as a...

In this article: Mira Nair, Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Ron Bass, Ted Waitt, Electra Junior, Hilary Swank, and Hachiko: A Dog's Story

The airless "Amelia" is missing practically everything. Cliches abound in the script by Ron Bass ("Rain Man") and Anna Hamilton Phelan ("Mask," "Gorillas in the Mist"). Helpful facts fill every conversation - "No one's flown the...

In this article: Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Charles Lindbergh, Ewan McGregor, Meryl Streep, Atlantic, and Fred Noonan

...in the marital nest. The look of the movie - suave Art Deco lines and 1930s fashions - is blameless, though helpless to counter the Ron Bass screenplay, guaranteed to drain the life out of any drama it touches. There's another epitaph,...

In this article: Amelia Earheart, Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Hejira, George Putnam, Amelia, Ron Bass, Ewan McGregor, and Joni Mitchell

...co-stars Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor. It also won't hurt that the film is directed by revered international director Mira Nair, and the script was written by Oscar-winner Ronald Bass ("Rain Man"). With all those factors in play, the...

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...budget and footing the bill for the film’s marketing expenses. </p><p> At the time, judging from the script co-written by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan, the studio believed “Amelia” could be a historical drama with the...

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...fact-based films with historical and cultural significance. Waitt has secured attorney Skip Brittenham to broker worldwide sales of "Amelia," a process that won't begin until the film has been cast. Swank and Bass will be exec producers.

In this article: Ted Waitt, Hilary Swank, Ron Bass, Amelia Earhart, Mira Nair, Amelia, George Putnam, and Gateway