Daniel Knauf

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Daniel Knauf (2006)

Daniel Knauf , pseudonyms Wilfred Schmidt and Chris Neal (born August 7, 1958 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American screenwriter , comic book writer , director and producer . He became known through the television series Carnivàle of HBO .

biography

Knauf was born and raised in Los Angeles . He attended various colleges in Southern California , studied fine art and received his doctorate in 1982 from California State University, Los Angeles with a bachelor's degree in English. His first job was that of a private use of consultant and later health insurance broker . He only started writing when he was able to support himself and his family financially. With the hope of becoming a screenwriter, Knauf wrote the first script for Carnivàle in 1992 . It was 180 pages long, twice as long as a normal feature film . Knauf was convinced that the script would not work as a standard television series or film and therefore put it aside so that one day it might be written as a novel. Carnivàle was born as a result of Knauf's childhood fascination with Carnivàles and his interest in “freaks”. His father was dependent on a wheelchair during Knauf's childhood due to poliomyelitis . After meeting television writers at a Writers Guild of America meeting in the mid-1990s, Knauf began to think about turning the screenplay for Carnivàle into a television series. He rewrote the first act as a pilot , but put the script on hold when he couldn't find a producer for the project.

Knauf wrote the HBO-produced television film Blind Justice in 1994 . During the low point of his screenwriting career, he opened his own website where he published his résumé and Carnivàle's first act. He wrote the 2001 pilot episode of Honey Vicarro and wrote, produced and directed the television series Wolf Lake and the film Dark Descent before a television production scout introduced Carnivàle to producers Scott Winant and Howard Klein. They presented the project to HBO, which then produced it twelve years after Knauf had written the first script.

Since Carnivàle was dismissed in 2005, Knauf has written for series such as Supernatural , Standoff (also co-executive producer), and My Own Worst Enemy . With his son Charles Knauf, he wrote issues 7-18 and 21-28 of the Iron Man Comics for Marvel , as well as the second issue of The Eternals Comics, after an abstinence of over 30 years. Most recently, Knauf wrote the comic Captain America Theater of War: Zero-Point , the plot of which takes place during World War II . His last television projects were a miniseries about the phantom and two scripts for the series Spartacus: Blood and Sand .

In September 2010 it was announced that he was working with Trent Reznor on a miniseries version of the Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero for HBO and BBC . A few months later, however, he was replaced by the Fight Club screenwriter Jim Uhls . Knauf was the showrunner on the short-lived NBC television series Dracula between 2013 and 2014 before starting work as a screenwriter and producer on The Blacklist .

Filmography

Series

script

producer

  • 2001–2002: Wolf Lake (consulting producer, seven episodes)
  • 2003–2005: Carnivàle ( Executive Producer , 24 episodes)
  • 2006–2007: Standoff (co-executive producer, consulting producer, ten episodes)
  • 2008: My Own Worst Enemy (Co-Executive Producer, six episodes)
  • 2010: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (consulting producer, seven episodes)
  • 2013-2014: Dracula (Executive Producer, ten episodes)
  • 2014–2017: The Blacklist (Co-Executive Producer, 59 episodes)

Movies

  • 1994: Blind Justice (screenplay, TV film )
  • 2001: Honey Vicarro ( pilot )
  • 2002: Dark Descent (Director and screenplay, as Wilfred Schmidt)
  • 2012: Bxx: Haunted (Screenplay, Executive Producer)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Daniel Knauf. HBO, archived from the original on May 4, 2008 ; accessed on February 25, 2010 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Freaking hell. The Age, December 16, 2004, accessed April 20, 2010 .
  3. ↑ a b c The Making of a Magnificent Delusion: Daniel Knauf. HBO, archived from the original on June 6, 2008 ; Retrieved April 20, 2010 (English).
  4. ^ A b Daniel Frankel: Carnivale: Where mysticism's often meted out in meticulously slow fashion. Variety, June 16, 2004, accessed April 20, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Jonah Weiland: "Carnivale" Creator Daniel Knauf to Write "Iron Man". Comic Book Resources, September 27, 2005, accessed April 20, 2010 .
  6. ^ Remy Minnick: CCI: Charles & Daniel Knauf: Waking Up from An Eternal Slumber. Comic Book Resources, July 27, 2007, accessed April 20, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Dave Richards: Eternal Glory of the King: Knaufs talk “Eternals”. Comic Book Resources, June 11, 2008, accessed April 20, 2010 .
  8. ^ Geoff Boucher: Trent Reznor and HBO moving forward with 'Year Zero' sci-fi series (updated). Los Angeles Times , September 28, 2010, accessed September 30, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Ethan Anderton: FIGHT CLUB Writer to Script Trent Reznor's YEAR ZERO Miniseries at HBO. Collider, June 24, 2011, accessed March 11, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Alison Willmore: 'Carnivale' Creator Daniel Knauf Hired to Run NBC's 'Dracula'. IndieWire, October 9, 2012, accessed March 11, 2013 .

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personal data
SURNAME Knauf, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Wilfred (pseudonym); Neal, Chris (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, comic book writer, director, and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California