Joe Eszterhas

József Antal ("Joe") Eszterhas (born November 23, 1944 in Csákánydoroszló , Vas County , Hungary ) is a Hungarian-American screenwriter .

Life

Joe Eszterhas emigrated with his parents from Hungary to the United States after the end of World War II .

While working as an editorial assistant for Rolling Stone magazine , his talent for writing was noticed and he was appointed a reporter - a first step in the direction of Hollywood . There he wrote scripts for Flashdance , with which he became famous, and Basic Instinct , his most successful work, which he sold to Carolco Pictures in 1990 for the record price of three million dollars . Eszterhas was the first screenwriter to ensure that his scripts were not changed after they were submitted.

After many years of alcohol and other drugs , Eszterhas now lives with his second wife and four sons in Bainbridge Township near Cleveland , Ohio, where he writes books. His famous book is Hollywood Animal . For this he was heavily criticized for writing about Hollywood in the style of a investigative journalist.

Works

Scripts (selection)

• 1978: FIST - A man goes his way ( FIST )
• 1983: Flashdance
• 1985: The Knife ( Jagged Edge )
• 1987: Big Shots - Two kids against the underworld ( Big Shots )
• 1988 Verraten ( Betrayed )
• 1989: Tired of life live longer ( Checking Out )
• 1989: Music Box - The Whole Truth ( Music Box )
• 1992: Basic Instinct
• 1993: Nowhere to Run ( Nowhere to Run )
• 1993: Sliver
• 1995: Showgirls
• 1995: Jade
• 1997: American Dreamer ( Telling Lies in America )
• 1998: Go to Hell Hollywood ( To Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn )
• 2006: Children of Glory ( Szabadság, szerelem )

Books

• (with Michael D. Roberts) Thirteen Seconds. Confrontation at Kent State . Dodd, Mead, New York 1970, ISBN 0-396-06272-5 .
• Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse . Random House, New York 1974, ISBN 0-394-48424-X .
• Nark! Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco 1974, ISBN 0-87932-051-6 .
• FIST Dell, New York 1978, ISBN 0-440-12650-9 .
  • German edition: Kovak . W. Krüger Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-8105-0505-6 .
• American Rhapsody . Knopf, New York 2000, ISBN 0-375-41144-5 .
• Hollywood Animal. A memoir . Knopf, New York 2004, ISBN 0-375-41355-3 .
  • German edition: Hollywood Animal . Limes / Random House Entertainment, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-8090-3027-9 .
• The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God! St. Martin's Press, New York 2006, ISBN 0-312-35987-X .
• Crossbearer. A Memoir of Faith . St. Martin's Press, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-312-38596-5 .

Joe Eszterhas Awards

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After Eszterhas, the negative film award Golden Raspberry is also called "the dishonorable Joe Eszterhas Script Award" in the worst script category . As the only screenwriter to date, he received this dubious award twice: in 1995 for Showgirls and in 1998 for Fahr zum Hölle Hollywood . In addition, his scripts for Flashdance 1983, Sliver 1993 and Jade 1995 were nominated.

In 1996, the Joe Eszterhas Award was presented once for the “worst-written films that grossed more than 100 million US dollars”.

Web links

• Joe Eszterhas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Joe Eszterhas in the catalog of the German National Library