Sheldon Turner

Movies

X-Men: First Class
Story
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
Up in the Air
Screenplay
Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Story
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Screenplay
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.
The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Sheldon Turner
Himself
Sheldon Turner is the prototype for the smart, brash, ambitious young screenwriter. He recently broke through with his script for the remake of The Longest Yard, and has a dozen other scripts in development. He's got insane discipline, writes longhand and boycotts email.
The Longest Yard
Screenplay
Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game 'fixed' to turn out quite another way.
Days Gone
Producer
Former motorcycle club member Deacon St. John fights to survive against the forces of despair and mutated, predatory humans in his quest to find the long lost, presumed dead, love of his life. Based on the video game of the same name.
Days Gone
Screenplay
Former motorcycle club member Deacon St. John fights to survive against the forces of despair and mutated, predatory humans in his quest to find the long lost, presumed dead, love of his life. Based on the video game of the same name.
Everest
Screenplay
In 1921, mountaineer George Mallory is picked by Arthur Hinks of the Royal Geographic Society to scale the previously unconquerable Mount Everest. Following World War I, the fading British empire is desperate for a victory, but for Mallory and his rival, the eccentric Aussie George Finch, the challenge has nothing to do with patriotism, instead it is a singular test of self.
Work Horses
Producer
An inside look into the world of high-stakes, big time college football, and follows a newly hired head coach as he confronts systematic corruption and the routine abuse of athletes within the sport.
Work Horses
Writer
An inside look into the world of high-stakes, big time college football, and follows a newly hired head coach as he confronts systematic corruption and the routine abuse of athletes within the sport.
Love Is a Gun
Writer
A thrilling, gritty and emotional story of two of history’s most famous lovers, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde Barrow.