Noah Hawley

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Noah Hawley (2014)

Noah Hawley (* 1967 in New York City ) is an American film and television producer , screenwriter and writer .

Life

Hawley studied political science at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers . After graduating, he worked in a legal aid association for abused and neglected young people and began to write in his spare time. In 1994 he moved to San Francisco , where he joined the writers 'collective San Francisco Writers' Grotto at the invitation of Po Bronson . After various short stories and magazine articles, his first novel, A Conspiracy of Tall Men , was published in 1998 , a thriller about conspiracy theories .

After his second novel, Other People's Weddings (dt. The wedding swindler sold Hawley, 2004) his first script to Summit Entertainment . Even before the film Alibi was released in 2006, he began working for Fox as a screenwriter and producer on the series Bones, based on the model of Kathy Reichs . He then designed the series The Unusuals and My Generation for ABC . Between 2007 and 2011 he wrote to his fourth novel, The Good Father (dt. The father of the assassin ) about a father whose son an attack accused on an American presidential candidate. Hawley developed the television series Fargo , which has aired since 2014 and is based on the film of the same name by the Coen brothers , and is its showrunner in charge . He also created the TV series Legion , broadcast between 2017 and 2019 , which focuses on superheroes from Marvel Comics .

In the center of Hawley's fifth novel Before the Fall (dt. Before the fall , 2016) is the crash of the private aircraft of a media mogul, to survive an unsuccessful painter and rescued him little boy. From this central event, he sheds light on both the prehistory of those involved and the further fate of the painter, who is transformed from a celebrated hero into a villain surrounded by conspiracy theories through the witch hunt of a right-wing populist TV station . According to Marcus Müntefering, the station is modeled on the real station Fox News , and the novel questions the change from journalism to infotainment and the ubiquitous power of the media as an "entertainment machine".

Hawley made his directorial debut in 2019 with the space drama Lucy in the Sky . The focus is on an astronaut played by Natalie Portman and her love affair with a colleague. The story is inspired by the life story of NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak .

Hawley lives in Los Angeles and Austin , Texas , where his wife and daughter live. In his spare time he is involved in the non-profit writing school 826 Valencia for children and young people.

Awards

Filmography

As a director
As a screenwriter
As an executive producer
  • 2007-2008: Bones ( Bones , TV series)
  • 2009: The Unusuals (TV series, 10 episodes)
  • 2010: My Generation (TV series, 7 episodes)
  • since 2014: Fargo (TV series)
  • since 2017: Legion (TV series)

Novels

  • 1998: A Conspiracy of Tall Men
  • 2004: Other People's Weddings (German: Die Hochzeitschwindlerin , 2006)
  • 2008: The Punch
  • 2012: The Good Father (German: The Assassin's Father , 2014)
  • 2016: Before the Fall (German: Before the Fall , 2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Conspiracy of Tall Men . Reviewed by Emily Barton in the New York Times on August 23, 1998.
  2. ↑ Based on the biography on Noah Hawley's website .
  3. ↑ John Williams: Noah Hawley Talks About His New Novel, 'The Good Father' on the Artsbeat Blog of the New York Times, March 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ Christoph Gurk: "The trust of the Coen brothers is an honor" . In Puls from April 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ Marcus Müntefering: “Do we exist to watch TV?” In: Der Spiegel from September 14, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ben Travers: 'Lucy in the Sky': Noah Hawley's Space Drama Could Land at Fall Festivals . In: IndieWire of June 23, 2019.
  7. ↑ Oscar Yuill: Pale Blue Dot: first look at Natalie Portman in Noah Hawley's murderous astronaut drama . In: The Telegraph of July 26, 2018.
  8. ^ About the Author . In: Noah Hawley: The Good Father . Hodder & Stoughton, London, ISBN 978-1-444-73036-4 .
  9. ↑ To the article about 826 Valencia in the English Wikipedia, see en: 826 Valencia .
personal data
SURNAME Hawley, Noah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and television producer, screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City