Roundtable: Feature screenwriters

December 14, 2007 With the WGA and the upcoming awards season being two of the most-talked-about subjects in town these past weeks, it made sense to pull some of the writers off the street and into The Hollywood Reporter's offices for a quick chat. On a November afternoon, three Oscar-winning screenwriters joined two of the most promising newcomers in Hollywood to talk about the recent WGA strike, the challenge of self-discipline and the differences between original screenplays and adaptations at a recent roundtable moderated by The Hollywood Reporter's Elizabeth Guider and Stephen Galloway. The writers taking part were (pictured from left): Ben Affleck (who wrote "Gone Baby Gone" with Aaron Stockard for Miramax), Ronald Harwood (Miramax's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" and New Line's "Love in the Time of Cholera"), , Diablo Cody (Fox Searchlight's "Juno"), Paul Haggis (director and screenwriter of Warner Independent's "In the Valley of Elah," from a story co-written with Mark Boal) and David Benioff (Paramount Classics/DreamWorks' "The Kite Runner").

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