Title: Sal (film)
Content:  Sal is a 2011 biographical film depicting the last few hours of the life of Sal Mineo, one of the first major film actors in Hollywood to publicly acknowledge their own bisexuality or homosexuality. Mineo was murdered on February 12, 1976. The film, directed by James Franco, stars Val Lauren in the title role, and is based in part on Michael Gregg Michaud's book Sal Mineo: A Biography. The film also stars Jim Parrack, James Franco and Vince Jolivette in supporting roles. Franco optioned the film in 2010, and shooting began during the summer of 2011. The film premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival and was set for theatrical release in November 2013.
Title: Hal Salwen
Content:  Based on a short film he made while attending NYU Film School, Salwen was accepted into the AFI Director's Internship Program where he was placed to observe Sylvester Stallone direct Staying Alive. Following that experience, he began a career in television commercials, working in various capacities, from production assistant to producer, while simultaneously writing several screenplays. Eventually, two of those screenplays—Deadly Surveillance and Probable Cause—found their way into production as made-for-cable movies for the Showtime Network. After subsequently having several of his spec scripts optioned by Hollywood studios, but never made, as well as working as an uncredited writer on several films, Salwen began work on smaller projects with the hope 
Title: Salt (2010 film)
Content:  The early development of the script began while Kurt Wimmer was doing interviews promoting Equilibrium. In a November 2002 interview, he discussed what scripts he was working on. He stated that "I have several scripts—foremost of which is one called The Far-Reaching Philosophy of Edwin A. Salt—kind of a high-action spy thriller..." In another interview, Wimmer described the project as "very much about me and my wife". The plot incorporated many elements from Equilibrium, with an oppressive and paranoid political system of brainwashing that gets overthrown by one of its high-ranking members who rebels due to an emotional transformation. With the shortened title Edwin A. Salt, the script was sold 
Title: Shane Salerno
Content:  to work on the four sequels to Avatar, one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. Salerno spent ten years on his documentary Salinger, a project that he researched, wrote, produced, directed, and financed. The film examined the life of author J. D. Salinger, a writer noted for protecting his privacy. The movie includes interviews with Joyce Maynard, Edward Norton, and Tom Wolfe. A director's cut appeared on the PBS series American Masters in January 2014. With author David Shields, Salerno wrote the book Salinger to accompany the film. It reached number six on The New York Times bestseller list and number one on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list.
Title: Salinger (film)
Content:  According to Salerno, the project initially started as a feature film, with Daniel Day-Lewis as his choice to play Salinger. Buddy Squires, Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated cinematographer, was hired to shoot the film. On January 29, 2010, the website Deadline Hollywood first reported on the documentary, which had been kept secret for five years. Michael Fleming, the first journalist to view the film, called it "arrestingly powerful and exhaustively researched". Additionally, Fleming announced that Salerno had co-written a 700-page biography on Salinger with New York Times bestselling author David Shields. On February 4, 2010, Entertainment Weekly detailed the elaborate security surrounding the film. When American Masters executive producer Susan Lacy read 
Title: Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Content:  Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Eugene Corr. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film was screened at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival and is a part of the PBS American Masters series of documentary films. The documentary is about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s but went on to win two Academy Awards in the 1970s. The story is told through interviews with collaborators and friends such as Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jon Voight, John Schlesinger and with clips from Salt's films, chiefly Midnight Cowboy.
Title: Soldiers of Salamis
Content:  Soldados de Salamina was adapted by the director and screenwriter David Trueba, premiering in Spain on March 21, 2003.
Title: Hal Salwen
Content:  Hal Salwen is an American film director, producer, and writer. His films have received numerous awards and nominations, with Denise Calls Up notable for being the only American film to win an award at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. With the premiere of his second film, "His and Hers", at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, Salwen was named by Daily Variety as one of its "Top Ten Filmmakers To Watch" along with Mary Harron, Wes Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron, among others.
Title: Oscar Saul
Content:  Oscar Saul (December 26, 1912, New York City – May 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter. Saul wrote or collaborated on the screenplays for numerous movies from the 1940s through to the early 1980s. His best-known work was on the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. '
Title: Salinger (film)
Content:  Salinger is a 2013 documentary film about the reclusive writer J. D. Salinger directed and produced by Shane Salerno. The film tells the story of Salinger's life through interviews with friends, historians, and journalists. The film premiered at the 40th annual Telluride Film Festival and had a second premiere on the opening night of the Toronto International Film Festival. Salinger was one of the top-ten highest-grossing documentaries of 2013, with the highest per screen average of all the films that were released on its opening weekend. Two million viewers watched its broadcast on American Masters on PBS.

Question: Who was the screenwriter for Sal?
Answer: James Franco.
James Edward Franco.