Making Movies Monahan-Style, With A Boston Irish Accent
Screenwriter William Monahan's name has been all over the trades for the past couple of years, but he's a relative newcomer to the film industry. The Boston-born journalist and novelist wrote for the New York Press in the early 1990s, penning a weekly column on politics and current affairs. Now he's better know as the screenwriter for Martin Scorsese's THE DEPARTED, which opens Friday.
Suddenly it seemed that Monahan became the go-to guy for brash, brutal dialogue--a new Mamet--or the man with historical obsessions (knights, the crusades, the shores of Tripoli) that clicked with director Ridley Scott. First he wrote the long, literate screenplay for KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, but it's his adaptation of the Hong Kong cop thriller INFERNAL AFFAIRS that'll let you understand Monahan-speak.
Read all about him in a Boston Globe interview with Sam Alllis.
Comments
Mr. Monahan, with pleasure I've read about you in the Boston Globe.
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It has won first place awards in New England journalism and the interest is great. All that is needed is a screnwriter to put the story together.
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Please contact me for more information.
With sincere regards,
Joan
Posted by: Joan | October 8, 2006 11:49 AM