Movies not based on a book

Avatar is a movie developed with a screen play.

Good Will Hunting. Started as a class assignment for Matt Damon, got good feedback, Ben Affleck came in and cowrote some of it, and the teacher who encouraged basically rewrote a lot of it. Source: watched an interview with Matt and Ben about how they got started.

Chinatown, for which Robert Towne won the Academy Award for best original screenplay in 1974.

Perb, The Final Frontier. Random screenplay. No paid actors. Great ego’s! Lots of sexyness. What’s not to love?❤

How the West Was Won The Fall of the Roman Empire - Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton 2001: A Space Odyssey (developed concurrently with a novel) Carnal Knowledge - Ann Margaret Grease - John Travolta (stage adaption) Twilight's Last Gleaming (loosely based on Viper Three by Walter Wage) The Summer of '42 (screenplay preceeded the book) Went to bed last night recollecting 16 movies but most turned out to be based on a novel.

Blazing Saddles Top Gun It's a Wonderful Life Mrs Doubtfire Planes, Trains and Automobiles The Sixth Sense