Diablo Cody
After completion of her book, Cody was encouraged by Mason Novick to write her first screenplay. Within months she wrote "Juno", a coming-of-age story about a teenager's unplanned pregnancy. The Jason Reitman-directed comedy stars Ellen Page and Michael Cera.
Rudy Wurlitzer
Wurlitzer's first script "Glen and Randa", co-written with Jim McBride and released in 1969, was another take on a post-apocalyptic world. At some point, Monte Hellman, who had been directing films for Roger Corman read Wurlitzer's novel "Nog" and approached him about writing the screenplay for "Two-Lane Blacktop". The film became a cult-classic, and the script was printed in its entirety in the April 1971 issue of "Esquire". During his time in Hollywood, Wurlitzer also wrote the screenplays "Walker" (directed by Alex Cox), 1987, "Candy Mountain" which he co-directed with Robert Frank, 1988, and "Little Buddha" (directed by Bernardo Bertolucci), 1993. Wurlitzer was working on a script with Michelangelo Antonioni at the time of Antonioni's death.