Title: Eyes of Laura Mars
Content:  Eyes of Laura Mars is a 1978 American neo noir mystery-thriller film starring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones and directed by Irvin Kershner. The screenplay was adapted (in collaboration with David Zelag Goodman) from a spec script titled Eyes, written by John Carpenter; it was Carpenter's first major studio film. H. B. Gilmour later wrote a novelization. Producer Jon Peters, who was dating Barbra Streisand at the time, bought the screenplay as a starring vehicle for her, but Streisand eventually decided not to take the role because of "the kinky nature of the story", as Peters later explained. As a result, the role went to 
Title: Eyes of Laura Mars
Content:  The film's source story was written by John Carpenter, as was the earliest version of the screenplay. Producer Jack H. Harris had worked with Carpenter on the latter's feature-film directorial debut, Dark Star, and it was Harris who optioned Carpenter's 11-page treatment, then titled simply Eyes. Harris planned to make the film independently of the major studios with privately raised finance and Roberta Collins in the lead. But Harris's friend Jon Peters read the treatment, and upon reading it, he became enthusiastic about its potential as a vehicle for Peters's then-girlfriend Barbra Streisand. Peters got interest from Peter Guber at Columbia and they agreed to finance the project's development. Streisand pulled out of the film, but Columbia were sufficiently enthusiastic about the script to move forward with another actress, and 
Title: Eyes of Laura Mars
Content:  Eyes of Laura Mars (Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) was released by Columbia Records (PS 35487) in July 1978. It was produced by Gary Klein with executive producers Jon Peters and Charles Koppelman. Mark Iskowitz of The Barbra Streisand Music Guide wrote: "The side one 'Prisoner' track is actually identical to the single and Greatest Hits Volume 2 version. The side two reprise version does contain instrumentation from the film score at the beginning and during the first sections of the song, which is featured in its entirety. Track 3 opens with Barbra singing the first four lines from 'Prisoner' with a sparse, spooky film score backing." The Eyes of Laura Mars LP is out of print; it was never released on CD.
Title: Eyes of Laura Mars
Content:  who had just won an Oscar for her performance in Network. Streisand nevertheless felt that "Prisoner", the torch song from the film, would be a good power ballad vehicle for her. She sang it on the soundtrack and garnered a moderate hit as a result (the record peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100). Eyes of Laura Mars is said to be an example of an American version of the Italian giallo genre. Peters commissioned photographer Helmut Newton to provide the images that stand in for Laura Mars' portfolio. The film is also noted for its use of red herrings and its twist ending.
Title: Eyes of Laura Mars
Content: Faye Dunaway as Laura Mars ; Tommy Lee Jones as Lieutenant John Neville ; Brad Dourif as Tommy Ludlow ; René Auberjonois as Donald Phelps ; Raúl Juliá as Michael Reisler ; Frank Adonis as Detective Sal Volpe ; Lisa Taylor as Michelle ; Darlanne Fluegel as Lulu ; Rose Gregorio as Elaine Cassel ; Bill Boggs as Himself ; Steve Marachuk as Robert ; Meg Mundy as Doris Spenser ; Marilyn Meyers as Sheila Weissman ; John Sahag as Hairdresser 
Title: Eyes of Laura Mars
Content:  On its release, the film received mixed critical reviews, but it was a box office hit, earning $20 million from a $7 million budget. The movie received a broadly positive review in The New York Times, in which Janet Maslin called the ending of the film "dumb", but otherwise liked it. She wrote of it: "It's the cleverness of Eyes of Laura Mars that counts, cleverness that manifests itself in superlative casting, drily controlled direction from Irvin Kershner, and spectacular settings that turn New York into the kind of eerie, lavish dreamland that could exist only in the idle noodlings of the very, very hip." Roger Ebert was less enthusiastic, giving the film one-and-a-half stars out of 
Title: Eyes of Laura Mars
Content:  Laura Mars is a glamorous fashion photographer who specializes in stylized violence. In the middle of controversy over whether her photographs glorify violence and are degrading to women, Laura begins seeing, in first person through the eyes of the killer, real-time visions of the murders of her friends and colleagues. John Neville, the lieutenant in charge of the case, shows Laura unpublished police photographs of unsolved murders that very closely mirror Laura's fashion shoots. Laura's visions continue, including visions of the killer stalking her and continuing to murder those around her. Meanwhile, Laura and Neville fall in love. He gives her a gun as protection. Meanwhile, the police consider Laura's driver Tommy and ex-husband Michael to be their prime suspects. When they find photographs of murdered models in Tommy's apartment, the police try to arrest him but shoot him dead when he tries to escape. 
Title: John Carpenter
Content:  of a single, working woman who, soon after arriving in L.A., discovers that she is being stalked. Eyes of Laura Mars, a 1978 thriller featuring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones and directed by Irvin Kershner, was adapted (in collaboration with David Zelag Goodman) from a spec script titled Eyes, written by Carpenter, and would become Carpenter's first major studio film of his career. Halloween (1978) was a commercial success and helped develop the slasher genre. Originally an idea suggested by producer Irwin Yablans (titled The Babysitter Murders), who thought of a film about babysitters being menaced by a stalker, Carpenter took the idea 
Title: Eyes of Laura Mars
Content:  and criticizing what he called the film's clichéd "woman in trouble" plot. As of November 2021, the film has an approval rating of 53% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The site's critics' consensus states: "Eyes of Laura Mars hints at interesting possibilities, but they're frittered away by a predictable story that settles for superficial thrills." George Lucas hired director Kershner for The Empire Strikes Back because he was impressed after seeing a rough cut of the film. A parody of the film titled Eyes of Lurid Mess was published in Mad Magazine. It was illustrated by Angelo Torres and written by Larry Siegel in regular issue #206, April 1979.
Title: Prisoner (Love Theme from Eyes of Laura Mars)
Content:  The song was written by Karen Lawrence and John DeSautels, and produced by Gary Klein. Initially, it was assumed that Streisand would play the main role in the film Eyes of Laura Mars, but she refused the role, limiting herself to recording the song. The song was released as a single in July 1978 along with a film's soundtracks, the film itself was released in early August. The song peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number 48 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Question: Who was the screenwriter for Eyes of Laura Mars?
Answer: David Zelag Goodman.
John Carpenter.
John Howard Carpenter.