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Editor's note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. David Magee had two pieces of source material to work from for A Man Called Otto, the Marc Forster-directed Columbia Pictures remake of the hit Swedish…

You have to admit that David Magee is certainly versatile. In 2022 alone, the in-demand screenwriter has seen the release of the Netflix YA movie The School of Good and Evil, the sizzlingly hot adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s classic Lady Chatterley’s Lover…

As the writer of Mary Poppins Returns, David Magee embraced the major opportunity he saw before him, putting his stamp on an iconic character that meant so much to him. A sequel to Disney's 1964 musical classic—based on a series of children's books by P.L. Travers—Mary Poppins Returns circles back to the titular…

Comprising one of contemporary Hollywood's great songwriting duos—who brought music and lyrics to Broadway hit Hairspray, and collaborated on acclaimed NBC musical drama Smash, among many other projects—Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman faced the biggest moment in their storied careers, with Mary Poppins Returns. A…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 emerged from a bidding battle that resulted in a substantial seven-figure deal for an untitled original musical fantasy about Hans Christian Andersen. It’s the first original musical from composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz since Wicked, and it will be scripted by David Magee, the Life of Pi scribe…