Jeb Stuart (screenwriter)

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Jeb Stuart (born January 21, 1956 in Little Rock , Arkansas ) is an American screenwriter , film director and producer . He gained fame primarily through his scripts for internationally known films such as Die Hard , Lock Up - Survival is everything or On the run . He had his most active time in the late 1980s and 1990s.

life and career

Stuart, born in Little Rock , Arkansas , in 1956, trained as a screenwriter at Stanford University , among others . After completing his studies there, he only slowly found his way into the film and television business and did not have his first significant activity until the late 1980s. He had this, however, in the multiple Oscar-nominated cult film Die Hard with Bruce Willis , for which he wrote the entire screenplay. The novel was based on the book Nothing Lasts Forever by the late writer Roderick Thorp . He was not nominated for an Oscar for his work on Die Hard , but the following year he was able to look back on a nomination for an Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category "Best Motion Picture" (best film script), which he won along with the second Bundled screenwriter Steven E. de Souza shared. In the following year he wrote the script for the internationally known film Leviathan with the help of David Webb Peoples . In the same year he was also involved in the work on the screenplay of Lock Up - Survival is Everything , and in the same year he took over his first major activity as a film producer , where he appeared as an accompanying producer in a call for retaliation .

In 1990 the script for the comparatively less successful feature film Crisis finally followed . The original script was auctioned for a small amount at an online auction in February 2011, among other things. In 1990 he also wrote the screenplay for the blockbuster And Again 48 Hours . After a short period of no productions worth mentioning, George Lucas called on the scriptwriters in 1993 to write another story with Indiana Jones. In addition to scriptwriters such as Jeffrey Boam , M. Night Shyamalan , Frank Darabont and Jeff Nathanson , Jeb Stuart also submitted a script, but, like the other scriptwriters, failed because of the ideas of Lucas and Steven Spielberg . Stuart used an alien story in which Indiana Jones is in a love affair with a certain Molly and has to protect an alien next to it. In 1995, Stuart was finally replaced by Jeffrey Boam. Above all, it was Steven Spielberg who rebelled against Stuart's and Boam's script the following year, as he said that it was similar to the storyline of Independence Day , which celebrated worldwide success that year. The script by Stuart was called Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars .

Before that, he wrote the screenplay for the 1993 Oscar-winning film Auf der Flucht , one of his greatest successes, with which he and his partner David Twohy won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the “Best Motion Picture” category and for the Writers Guild of America Award in the category "Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published" was nominated. In 1995 the script for Im Sumpf des Verbrechens followed , which also had great box office results. In 1997, he had a significant year when he contributed the script to the Seagal film Fire Down Below and also appeared as executive producer . He also made his debut as a director in 1997 when he played several roles on Switchback . He was also employed as a screenwriter and executive producer for the film, which grossed around 6.5 million dollars in the US alone . This was also his last well-known production for over a decade, before he only appeared again internationally in 2009 and 2010 with the film Blood Done Sign My Name . He worked as a screenwriter and director in film and also held the position of producer. With the low-budget film, however, he could no longer really build on his earlier successes.

In early March 2001, Jeb Stuart's wife Anna Bryant Stuart died of kidney disease at the age of 44. Jeb Stuart and his wife have a son named Baker Stuart and a daughter named Alexandra "Lexie" Stuart. Stuart currently (as of 2011) lives in Greenwich , Connecticut , having previously lived in major cities like Los Angeles and Santa Barbara .

Filmography

as a screenwriter
as a director
as a producer

Nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jeb Stuart. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved October 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Complete script for "Die Hard" in the Screenplay Database (English; PDF; 648 kB), accessed on March 15, 2011
  3. ↑ David Webb Peoples at filmreference.com (English), accessed March 15, 2011
  4. ↑ Auction on E-Movie-Poster.com (English), accessed on March 15, 2011
  5. ↑ TV Digital , No. 10/08, pages 7–9
  6. ↑ Keys to the Kingdom , accessed March 15, 2011
  7. ^ David N. Twohy at filmreference.com (English), accessed March 15, 2011
  8. ^ Writer-director Jeb Stuart can't pin down tone in 'Blood Done Sign My Name' , accessed March 15, 2011
  9. ↑ 'Die Hard' writer Jeb Stuart debuts as director with 'Blood Done Sign My Name' ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed March 15, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.breitbart.com
personal data
SURNAME Stuart, Jeb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Little Rock , Arkansas, USA