Editing Nick Cave (section)

== Screenwriting ==
[[File:Nick Cave Cannes 2012.jpg|thumb|upright|Cave at the 2012 [[Cannes Film Festival]]]]
Cave wrote the screenplay for ''[[The Proposition (2005 film)|The Proposition]]'', a film about [[bushranger]]s in the Australian [[outback]] during the late 19th century. Directed by John Hillcoat and filmed in [[Queensland]] in 2004, it premiered in October 2005 and was later released worldwide to critical acclaim.<ref>Brett McCracken, [http://www.relevantmagazine.com/pc_article.php?id=7190 Film Review of ''The Proposition''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018124700/http://www.relevantmagazine.com/pc_article.php?id=7190 |date=18 October 2006 }}, ''[[Relevant (magazine)|Relevant]]''. Retrieved 25 November 2008.</ref> Cave explained his personal background in relation to writing the film's screenplay in a 2013 interview:

<blockquote>
I had written long-form before but it is pure story-telling in script writing and that goes back as far as I can remember for me, not just with my father but with myself. I slept in the same bedroom as my sister for many years, until it became indecent to do so and I would tell her stories every night—that is how she would get to sleep. She would say "tell me a story" so I would tell her a story. So that ability, I very much had that from the start and I used to enjoy that at school so actually to write a script—it suddenly felt like I was just making up a big story.<ref name="Big" /></blockquote>

The film critic for British newspaper ''[[The Independent]]'' called ''The Proposition'' "peerless", "a star-studded and uncompromisingly violent outlaw film".<ref>Will Self, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090520163055/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-proposition-bringing-the-revisionist-western-to-the-australian-outback-468212.html The Proposition: Bringing the revisionist Western to the Australian outback]," [[The Independent]]. Retrieved 25 November 2008.</ref> The generally [[ambient music|ambient]] soundtrack was recorded by Cave and Warren Ellis.

At the request of his friend [[Russell Crowe]], Cave wrote a script for a proposed sequel to ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]'' which was rejected by the studio.<ref>Dawtrey, Adam, "[https://variety.com/2006/film/features/nick-cave-1200337276/ 10 Screenwriters to Watch: Nick Cave] ," ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', 22 June 2006.</ref>

An announcement in February 2010 stated that [[Andy Serkis]] and Cave would collaborate on a motion-capture movie of the [[Bertolt Brecht|Brecht]] and [[Kurt Weill|Weill]] musical ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]''. As of November 2024, the project has not been realised.<ref>{{cite web|title=Serkis, Cave plan motion-capture Opera|url=http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/berlin/european-film-market/serkis-cave-plan-motion-capture-opera/5010840.article|work=Screen Daily|publisher=Media Business Insight Limited|access-date=24 September 2013|first=Mike|last=Goodridge|date=15 February 2010}}</ref>

Cave wrote a screenplay titled ''The Wettest County in the World'',<ref name=score>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/of_course_he_did_nick_cave_confirms_hell_score_john_hillcoats_the_wettest_c/ |title=Nick Cave Confirms He'll Score John Hillcoat's 'The Wettest County' |first=Simon |last=Dang |date=4 February 2011 |work=[[IndieWire]] |access-date=9 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207193518/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/of_course_he_did_nick_cave_confirms_hell_score_john_hillcoats_the_wettest_c/ |archive-date=7 February 2011 }}</ref> which was used for the 2012 film ''[[Lawless (film)|Lawless]]'', directed again by John Hillcoat, starring [[Tom Hardy]] and [[Shia LaBeouf]].<ref>Pelly, Jenn, "[https://pitchfork.com/news/47281-nick-cave-warren-ellis-lawless-music-features-mark-lanegan-emmylou-harris-ralph-stanley-more/ Nick Cave & Warren Ellis' Lawless Music Features Mark Lanegan, Emmylou Harris, Ralph Stanley, More]," ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork.com]]'', 27 July 2012.</ref>