Billy Ray

And here, being a socially and politically committed animal, this film feels enormously personal.

which he has also scripted, along with sonarists Connor O. McIntyre and Billy Ray, and which he also produced.

As his film is largely a battle of wills between three different people, he felt he needed different voices on side to present opposing moral perspectives.

So he got two different scriptwriters to provide those voices.

She wasn't praising the movie because it was already a proven cultural juggernaut.

She's putting her reputation on the line to praise it based entirely on the creative merit of the adaptation process itself, specifically the work done by director Gary Ross and screenwriter Billy Ray.

And there is a specific phrase she uses in this 2012 letter that I think is the golden key to understanding her entire philosophy.

Yeah, it's a great quote.

She was intimately, mechanically involved in this process.

Very involved.

The slash film retrospective details how she actually wrote the original cinematic treatments that screenwriter Billy Ray then worked from alongside director Gary Ross to create the final script.

The fact that she wrote the treatments herself is highly significant.

He had Costner and Connery attached to that at one point, so it fell through.

So he waits another five years and directs Color of Night, which was written by Billy Ray, who later wrote Shattered Glass, which is a really good movie.

Did some terrible ones, and he did some of the Hunger Games work.

Anyway...

I'd work with him again in a second.

So, yeah.

Willis shaved his head in the role to look more like Aldo Ray.

Pumped up a little bit as well.