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David Mamet served as a script doctor on the screenplay, being billed as "Richard Wiesz". The Writers' Guild refused to allow him to get top billing for the writing credit, so he refused to allow his real name to be used. | David Mamet served as a script doctor on the screenplay, being billed as "Richard Wiesz". The Writers' Guild refused to allow him to get top billing for the writing credit, so he refused to allow his real name to be used. | ||
As analogy, the title '''Ronin''' comes from samuri who has no leader to serve. |
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Ronin is a 1998 film which tells the story of a group of former intelligence agents who team to steal something of value ... but can they keep from trying to keep it for themselves? It stars Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean and Katarina Witt.
The movie was written by J.D. Zeik and David Mamet, and directed by John Frankenheimer.
David Mamet served as a script doctor on the screenplay, being billed as "Richard Wiesz". The Writers' Guild refused to allow him to get top billing for the writing credit, so he refused to allow his real name to be used.
As analogy, the title Ronin comes from samuri who has no leader to serve.