Email Record: The hunt for Red October / Paramount Pictures presents a Mace Neufeld/Jerry Sherlock production ; a John McTiernan film ; produced by Mace Neufeld ; screenplay by Larry Ferguson and Donald Stewart ; directed by John McTiernan. K-19 : the widowmaker / Paramount Pictures and Intermedia Films present a National Geographic/Palomar Pictures, First Light/IMF production ; producers, Kathryn Bigelow, Joni Sighvatsson, Christine Whitaker, Edward S. Feldman ; screenplay writers, Christopher Kyle, Louis Nowra ; director, Kathryn Bigelow.