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“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

Summary by The Film Stage
The thing about filmmaker John Sayles is that he has done everything. Do you love Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial or Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist? Sayles’ unmade screenplay Night Skies is a piece of the source code for both classics. How about The Big Chill? Sayles’ lovely Return of the Secaucus 7 (which he wrote and directed) investigated the curdling of the baby boomers’ American dream long before Lawrence Kasdan took a crack at it.…
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The Film Stage broke the news on Wednesday, June 10, 2026.
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