Screenplays

"Art provides the moral matrix form which we draw our values." — Tom Stoppard
from an interview with Mel Gussow in the New York Times, 23 April 1974.

Billy Bathgate
Brazil
Despair
Empire of the Sun
Enigma
The Human Factor

Poodle Springs
The Romantic Englishwoman
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Russia House
Shakespeare in Love
Vatel

The Romantic Englishwoman

Film released in 1975.  Written with Thomas Wiseman, based on Wiseman's 1971 novel; directed by Joseph Losey

Screenplay unpublished; no current US DVD release.

DVD (PAL format)

Despair

Film released in 1978.  Based on the 1966 English translation by Vladimir Nabokov of his 1936 novel; directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Screenplay unpublished.

DVD

The Human Factor

Film released in 1980.  Based on the 1978 novel by Graham Greene; directed by Otto Preminger

Screenplay unpublished; no current US DVD release.

DVD (PAL format)

Brazil

Film released in 1985.  Original screenplay, written with Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown; directed by Terry Gilliam.

  1. The Battle of Brazil by Jack Matthews [includes the screenplay]
    • Crown, 1987 [ISBN: 0517565382]
    • Applause [pb], 1998 [ISBN: 1557833478] *

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Screenplay [hc]


Screenplay [pb]

Empire of the Sun

Film released in 1987.  Based on the 1984 novel by J. G. Ballard; directed by Steven Spielberg.

Screenplay unpublished

DVD

The Russia House

Film released in 1990.  Based on the 1989 novel by John Le Carré; directed by Fred Schepisi.

Screenplay unpublished

DVD

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Film first screened in 1990; wide released in February, 1991.  Based on his 1966 stage play; directed by Tom Stoppard.

  1. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: The Screenplay
    • Faber and Faber, 1991 [ISBN: 0571152465] 64 p
    • Faber and Faber [pb], 1991 [ISBN: 0571162428] 64 p.

Screenplay


DVD

Billy Bathgate

Film released in November, 1991.  Based on the 1989 novel by E. L. Doctorow; directed by Robert Benton.

Screenplay unpublished

DVD

Poodle Springs

Made-for-television film, first shown on HBO on July 25, 1998.  Written in 1992.  Adapted from the novel by Robert B. Parker; based on characters created by Raymond Chandler; directed by Bob Rafelson. 

Screenplay unpublished; no current US DVD release

Shakespeare in Love

Film released in 1998.  Original screenplay, written with Marc Norman; directed by John Madden.

  1. Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
    • Hyperion Press [pb], 1999 [ISBN: 0786884851] 169 p. *

Screenplay


DVD

Vatel

Film released in 2000.  Written with Jeanne Labrune; directed by Roland Joffe.

Screenplay unpublished

DVD

Enigma

Film released in 2001.  Based on the 1995 novel by Robert Harris; directed by Michael Apted.

Screenplay unpublished

DVD

Uncredited Work on Screenplays

Always
Revision work on the screenplay by Jerry Belson and Diane Thomas  Film released in 1989.  Directed by Steven Spielberg

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Revision work on the screenplay by Jeffrey Boam.  Film released in 1989.  Directed by Steven Spielberg

Regarding Henry
Revision work on the screenplay by Jeffrey Abrams.  Film released in 1991.  Directed by Mike Nichols

Chaplin
Revision work on the screenplay by William Boyd and Bryan Forbes.  Film released in 1992.  Directed by Richard Attenborough

Medicine Man
Revision work on the screenplay by Tom Schulman and Sally Robinson.  Film released in 1992.  Directed by John McTiernan

Schindler's List
Revision work on the screenplay by Thomas Keneally and Steven Zaillian.  Film released in 1993.  Directed by Steven Spielberg

Restoration
Revision work on the screenplay by Rose Tremain and Rupert Walters.  Film released in 1995.  Directed by Michael Hoffman

Sleepy Hollow
Revision work on the screenplay by Kevin Yagher and Andrew Kevin Walker.  Film released in 2000.  Directed by Tim Burton

K-19: The Widowmaker
Revision work on the screenplay by Christopher Kyle.  Film released in 2002.  Directed by Kathryn Bigelow

Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith
Revision work on the screenplay by George Lucas.  Film released in 2005.  Directed by George Lucas

Unproduced Screenplays

Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon (circa 1968)
Based on his 1966 novel

Rosencrantz and Guildensern Are Dead (circa 1968)
Stoppard's first attempt at adapting his 1966 stage play

Albert's Bridge (circa 1969)
Based on his 1967 radio play; written with A. C. H. (Anthony) Smith

Galileo (circa 1970)
Based on the 1943 play by Bertolt Brecht, "The Life of Galileo".  Adapted for the stage circa 1972 as Galileo

Naked Without a Gun (circa 1974-75)
Based on "Knuckle", the 1974 play by David Hare

Michael the First (circa 1976)
Based on stories by John Collier; co-written with Willis Hall, Jack Rosenthal, and Keith Waterhouse

Night and Day (circa 1980)
Based on his 1978 stage play

Innocent Blood (circa 1981)
Based on the 1980 novel by P. D. James; written for Mike Nichols' production company

AOP (circa 1981-84)
Original screenplay for Warner Bros.

A Far Off Place (circa 1988)
Based on the 1974 novel by Laurens van der Post; written for Amblin Entertainment

Hopeful Monsters (circa 1993)
Based on the 1990 novel by Nicholas Mosley; written for Amblin Entertainment

Cats (circa 1994)
Animated adaptation of the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber; based upon Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot

Hapgood (circa 1995)
Based on his 1988 stage play

Arcadia (circa 1998)
Based on his 1993 stage play

Tulip Fever (circa 2002)
Based on the 2000 novel by Deborah Moggach

His Dark Materials (circa 2003)
Based on the 1995 novel by Philip Pullman

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