'Iron Man' an original for Scripter

January 06, 2009 The screenwriters of "Iron Man" and the scribes behind more literary fare "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Reader" and "Revolutionary Road" join the "Slumdog Millionaire" team as finalists for the 21st annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. The screenwriting teams Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway penned Marvel Studios's "Iron Man," which is based on the comic book series authored by Stan Lee and Don Heck, among others. It's the first time a superhero movie and its writers have made the Scripter finals and only the second time a movie based on a comic book or graphic novel has been a finalist, following 2005's "A History of Violence" by Josh Olson.

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