David Benioff
David Benioff ( born September 25, 1970 in New York City as David Friedman ) is an American novelist, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
David Benioff is the youngest of three children of Barbara Benioff and Stephen Friedman, a former board member of Goldman Sachs while still a youth, he attended his mother's surname. He attended the Collegiate School and studied at Dartmouth College. He then worked briefly at the age of 22 years as a bouncer before he was in Brooklyn English teacher at Poly Prep Country Day School. Subsequently, he studied creative writing at the University of California, Irvine and Trinity College in Dublin, where he received his Master of Fine Arts with a thesis on Samuel Beckett.
Since his studies Benioff wrote. Within eight years, he wrote three novels. The first he never sent it to publishers and for the second he received 34 rejections. Also for his third novel Fireman Down he received 13 rejections before he could make his debut as a writer with this under the title The 25th Hour in 2000. At the same time he also got a literary agent, who campaigned for his novel, which in turn the actor Tobey Maguire was attentive. Maguire wanted to film the story and committed Spike Lee as a director and as a screenwriter Benioff. Only two years later, the same feature film appeared. Since then, Benioff was with screenplays to Troy, The Kite Runner, and X -Men Origins: Wolverine finally establish itself as a screenwriter.
After the short story collection Everything at the beginning in 2004 appeared almost five years later in 2008 with City of Thieves, which appeared as a city of thieves in German language, his second novel. The idea of the story he had in 2000, where he did not know how they should go out. Only after he read several books and especially Harrison Salisbury's 900 days. The Siege of Leningrad was inspired to write the intense phase began in September 2006. Contrary to the first chapter, which sold the story as a fictionalized truth of his grandparents, these in turn were born Americans.
Larger international attention got Benioff, however, only with the produced for HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones. Together with DB Weiss he adapted while the saga A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin.
After he had been dating four years with actress Amanda Peet, both announced their engagement in July 2005. They married on September 30, 2006 Peets old high school in New York. She was pregnant for the fourth month. After she had a daughter in 2007, the second daughter was born in 2010.
Works
- 25 hours ( Heyne Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-453-19906-5, original title: The 25th Hour, 2000, translated by Frank Böhmert )
- City of Thieves ( Blessing, 2009 ISBN 978-3-89667-394-7, Original title: City of Thieves, 2008, translated by Ursula -Maria Mössner )
- Back to the Beginning ( Blessing, 2010 ISBN Original title: When the Nines Roll Over ( and Other Stories ), 2004, translated by Ursula -Maria Mössner )
Filmography
- 2002: 25 hours ( 25th Hour )
- 2004: Troy (Troy )
- 2005: Stay
- 2007: The Kite Runner ( The Kite Runner )
- 2009: Brothers
- 2009: X -Men Origins: Wolverine
- Since 2011: Game of Thrones
Nominations (selection)
- Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay with The Kite Runner
- Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay with The Kite Runner
- Nomination for best international series with Game of Thrones
- Nomination for an Emmy in 2011 with Game of Thrones for the best screenplay of a drama series and best drama series in conjunction with DB Weiss and the producers of Game of Thrones
- Nomination for an Emmy in 2012 with Game of Thrones for the best drama series together with the producers of Game of Thrones
- Nomination for an Emmy in 2013 with Game of Thrones for the best screenplay of a drama series and best drama series in conjunction with DB Weiss and the producers of Game of Thrones