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HBO Taps ‘Big Short’ Writer Charles Randolph for COVID Vaccine Drama

Adam McKay and his Big Short co-writer Charles Randolph are teaming up again. Randolph will write a limited series in development at HBO about the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. The Oscar winner will also be an executive producer on the project, which McKay is executive producing via his Hyperobject Industries. The untitled project […]

‘Bombshell’ Writer Charles Randolph to Pen Untitled Wuhan Project

The screenwriter is set to pen an untitled project examining how the Chinese medical community confronted the coronavirus crisis.

Watch Hollywood Reporter’s Full Writer Roundtable With Oscar Nominees Taika Waititi, Anthony McCarten

Taika Waititi, Lorene Scafaria, Kasi Lemmons, Anthony McCarten, Destin Daniel Cretton and Charles Randolph share tactics to tackle real life as well as subjects to avoid entirely, all while exploring humanity "in the service of the truth."

‘Bombshell’ Writer Charles Randolph to Receive WGA’s Paul Selvin Award

'Bombshell' writer Charles Randolph will receive the Writers Guild of America West’s 2020 Paul Selvin Award at the 2020 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony.

Jason Blum, ‘Big Short’ Writer Tackling WeWork Drama

The meteoric rise and dramatic fall of WeWork and its founder and former CEO Adam Neumann will be getting the feature film treatment. Universal and Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions have fast-tracked a movie to be written by Oscar winner Charles Randolph — the screenwriter behind 'The Big Short' and the upcoming Fox news drama 'Bombshell' — about the embattled startup commercial real estate company.

‘Bombshell’ Writer on Roger Ailes and Why He Prefers to Write People He “Doesn’t Agree With”

'Bombshell' writer Charles Randolph joined The Hollywood Reporter Writer Roundtable to discuss Roger Ailes and why he prefers to write people he doesn't agree with.

“Fiction Means Freedom”: Taika Waititi, Lorene Scafaria and the Writer Roundtable

Kasi Lemmons, Anthony McCarten, Destin Daniel Cretton, and Charles Randolph also share tactics to tackle real life with varying degrees of fiction as well as subjects to avoid entirely, all while exploring humanity while "in the service of the truth."

‘The Big Short’s’ Charles Randolph Developing War Drama Series for Amazon

The untitled drama comes a month after Randolph took home the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.