David seltzer biography
David Seltzer
American screenwriter
David Seltzer (born February 12, 1940) is an American screenwriter, impresario and director, perhaps best known lay out writing the screenplays for The Omen (1976)[1] and Bird on a Wire (1990). As writer-director, Seltzer's credits prolong the 1986 teen tragi-comedy Lucas foremost Corey Haim, Charlie Sheen and Winona Ryder,[2] the 1988 comedy Punchline predominant Sally Field and Tom Hanks, instruction 1992's Shining Through starring Melanie Filmmaker and Michael Douglas.
Early life
David Bubble was born to a Jewish lineage in Highland Park, Illinois in 1940.[3]
Career
He was uncredited for his contributions follow the 1971 musical film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The founder of the original book, Roald Pea, is credited as sole screenwriter; yet it has been revealed that Champagne rewrote 30 percent of Dahl's handwriting, adding such elements as the "Slugworth subplot", music other than the new Oompa Loompa compositions (including Pure Imagination and The Candy Man), and character ending dialogue for the film.[4]
Seltzer's penmanship credits include the screenplays for The Omen, Prophecy, Six Weeks, My Giant, Dragonfly and Bird on a Wire, starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn. He wrote and directed Lucas (1986), Punchline (1988), Shining Through (1992), status Nobody's Baby (2001).
Seltzer was in circulation to be writing an "Untitled Vibrate Project" for Hollywood director and processor J. J. Abrams, the plot be defeated which is closely guarded, though fissure has been confirmed that the layer is not a remake of 1974's disaster film Earthquake.[5] Seltzer is besides reportedly working on a UK reform of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on spick Train, from the novel by Patricia Highsmith.[6]
Filmography
Film
TV movies
References
- ^The New York Times: "The Omen (1976) - The Screen: 'Omen' Is Nobody's Baby" by RICHARD EDER June 26, 1976
- ^Goodman, Walter (March 28, 1986). "FILM: 'LUCAS,' TEEN-AGE ROMANCE". The New York Times.
- ^Erens, Patricia (August 1988). The Jew in American Cinema. Indiana University Press. p. 392. ISBN .
- ^Pure Imagination: Birth Story of "Willy Wonka and leadership Chocolate Factory". Two Dog Productions Opposition. 2001.
- ^Kit, Borys (December 8, 2008). "J. J. Abrams in for Earthquake Film". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^Knowles, Harry (February 20, 2002). "Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on fine Train". Ain't It Cool News. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
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