Jeb Stuart (writer)
Jeb Stuart (born 21 January 1956 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He achieved fame mainly through his screenplays for internationally renowned films such as Die Hard, Lock Up - survival is all or on the run. Its much active time he had in the late 1980s and 1990s over the years.
Life and career
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1956 Stuart was educated at scriptwriter, among others at Stanford University. After he had completed his studies thereat, he found only slowly step into the film and television business and so had until the end of the 1980s, his first major work. This however, he was right in the multiple Oscar-nominated cult film Die Hard with Bruce Willis, for whom he wrote the entire screenplay. The novel offered while the book Nothing Lasts Forever by the late writer Roderick Thorp. For his work on Die Hard, he was not nominated for an Oscar, but could look back on a nomination for an Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category " Best Motion Picture " ( Best Screenplay ) in the following year, he is second, together with the Writer in the league, Steven E. de Souza, said. Already in the following year he wrote with the help of David Webb Peoples the screenplay for the internationally acclaimed film Leviathan. He was also in the same year in work on the screenplay by Lock Up - survival of all involved and also took his first substantial activity in the same year as a film producer, where he came into existence in call for retribution as a companion producer.
1990 finally followed the screenplay for the comparatively less successful feature film Crisis. The original script was doing auctioned among others in February 2011 for a small amount in an online auction. In addition, he wrote in 1990, the screenplay for the blockbuster Another 48 Hours. After a short time without significant productions called George Lucas, the screenwriters in the year 1993 to write another story with Indiana Jones. In addition to writers like Jeffrey Boam, M. Night Shyamalan, Frank Darabont and Jeff Nathanson while also filed Jeb Stuart, a screenplay, but failed as the other writers on the ideas of Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Stuart had it operated an alien story in which Indiana Jones is in a romantic relationship with a certain Molly and must protect an alien next to it. In 1995, Stuart was eventually replaced by Jeffrey Boam. Above all, Steven Spielberg, who, on or against Stuart Boams rebelled in the script, because he said that it is similar to the storyline of Independence Day, celebrated worldwide success this year, was. The screenplay by Stuart contributed to the names in Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars.
Even before that, he wrote the screenplay for the published and the Oscar-winning 1993 film The Fugitive, one of his greatest successes with which he, among other things, along with his partner David Twohy for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category " Best Motion Picture " and for Writers Guild of America Award, was nominated in the category " Best Screenplay Based on material Previously Produced or Published ." In 1995, then followed the screenplay for Just Cause, who had also produced big business for. A partly significant year he had in 1997, when he contributed the screenplay in the Seagal film Fire Down Below and also came into existence as executive producer. Furthermore, he celebrated in 1997 his debut as a director, as he at Switchback - came into use Merciless flight into multiple functions. He was also in the film, which grossed approximately $ 6.5 million in the U.S. alone, also engaged as a screenwriter and executive producer. This was over a decade and his last -known production, before international came into existence only in 2009 and 2010 with the film Blood Done Sign My Name again. In the film, he worked as a screenwriter and director and also held the position of producer held. With the low-budget film, however, he could not really connect to his previous successes.
In early March 2001, died Jeb Stuart's wife Anna Bryant Stuart at the age of 44 years from kidney disease. With his wife Jeb Stuart has a son by the name of Stuart Baker and a daughter named Alexandra " Lexie " Stuart. Currently (as of 2011) Stuart lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, having previously been used in major cities like Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.