Steve Kloves

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Steve Kloves (born March 18, 1960 in Austin , Texas , USA ; actually Stephen Keith Kloves ) is an American screenwriter and film director who is best known for his novel adaptations. The Harry Potter films and The WonderBoys are particularly important. He also directed The Fabulous Baker Boys and Flesh and Bone, and is currently working on his third film project.

biography

Kloves grew up in Sunnyvale , California , where he attended Fremont High School. He then went to the University of California, Los Angeles , but dropped out of his sophomore year after cutting his schedule down to just a few courses. As an unpaid intern for a Hollywood agent, he garnered attention for his first screenplay, Swings . This led to an important meeting, because now he received his first script assignment for the film Time Is Running Out, the Navy is Calling (1984).

His first experiences with professional screenwriting led him to seek more collaboration with the actors so that their characters could stay true to their ideas. Kloves wrote The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), which would also be his directorial debut. After the film did not find anyone interested in Hollywood for years, the project finally rolled out under Klove's direction. The film, which earned various Oscar nominations and Michelle Pfeiffer a Golden Globe , was praised above all for its successful portrayal of the emotional worlds of adults. With his successor Flesh and Bone - A Bloody Legacy (1993) with Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan , he could not repeat the success.

It wasn't until 2000 that he wrote his next screenplay with the adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel Wonder Boys . He turned down the offer to direct the film, pointing out that he only wanted to film his own ideas - a statement that he refuted in 2006 with the film adaptation of Mark Haddon's Supergute Tage or The Odd World of Christopher Boone . The Wonder Boys , the Curtis Hanson directed, was a great success. The script was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar .

Warner Bros. commissioned him with the script for the first Harry Potter film adaptation, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , as Joanne K. Rowling , the author of the original, recommended him. The Fabulous Baker Boys is considered her favorite movie. For the following Harry Potter films Kloves was hired again as a screenwriter and for the follow-up series Fantastic Beasts as a producer; he only canceled the fifth film ( Order of the Phoenix ) , so Michael Goldenberg stepped in. Kloves later said that his spontaneous rejection had a number of reasons that he couldn't quite see through, including an “urge to do other things; to make films again that nobody wants to see ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lawrence Van Gelder: Movies: About Steve Kloves . In: The New York Times . Archived from the original on April 3, 2015. Retrieved May 24, 2010. 
  2. ↑ Denise Martin: 'Harry Potter' countdown: Steve Kloves on a 'haunting moment' in 'Half-Blood Prince' . June 17, 2009. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kloves, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kloves, Stephen Keith; Kloves, Steven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Austin , Texas , USA