Steve Kloves
Steven Kloves ( born March 18, 1960 in Austin, Texas, USA) is an American screenwriter, who is best known for his novel adaptations. Especially the Harry Potter films and The Wonder Boys consequence. He also has directed the films The Fabulous Baker Boys and Flesh and Bone - A bloody heritage and is currently working on his third film project.
Biography
Kloves grew up in Sunnyvale, California, where he attended Fremont High School. Then he went to the University of California, Los Angeles, broke his studies in the second year after but after he had shut down his schedule to only a few courses. As an unpaid intern for a Hollywood agent he earned attention for his first screenplay with the name Swings. This led to an important meeting, because now he had his first screenplay for the film The contract is running out time, the Navy calls (1984).
His first experience with professional script writing made him more cooperation with the actors strive so that their characters were able to remain faithful to their ideas. Kloves wrote The Fabulous Baker Boys ( 1989), which should also represent his directorial debut. After the film for years was not interested in Hollywood, the project ultimately rolled under Kloves on line. The film, which several Oscar nominations and Michelle Pfeiffer earned a Golden Globe, was praised adult especially for his successful representation of emotional worlds. With his successor Flesh and Bone - A bloody legacy (1993 ) with Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, he could not repeat the success.
It was not until 2000 he wrote the adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel Wonder Boys his next screenplay. The offer to lead the government, he rejected with the note from wanting to make a film of only their own ideas - a statement which he refuted 2006 with the film adaptation of Mark Haddon's Super Good The Curious World of Christopher Boone. The Wonder Boys, Curtis Hanson directed, was a great success. The screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar.
With the screenplay for the first Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone asked him to Warner Bros., as its author Joanne K. Rowling recommended him. The Fabulous Baker Boys is regarded as her favorite movie. Also for the subsequent Potter films Kloves was engaged. Only the fifth volume was edited by Michael Goldberg, because Kloves was now busy with his third directorial debut.