Jeff Maguire
Jeff Maguire ( born 1952 ) is an American screenwriter who by movies such as flight or victory, In the Line of Fire - became known internationally Second Chance, timeline or Gridiron Gang.
Life and career
Jeff Maguire was born in 1952 and grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, already lost his father at age 14 due to a stroke, and then the mother, a nurse, was forced to support her four children alone. During his time at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts Maguire developed his interest in writing. After college he worked in Alaska on the railroad and as a waiter at a restaurant in Beverly Hills, after which he moved to New York to work for the friend Djordje Milicevic on industrial films. The two also wrote together on a movie about sled dog race that was eventually produced in the 1980s in Canada.
1981 him as a screenwriter made his breakthrough with his story for cinema production run or win a drama starring Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone and directed by veteran John Huston. In 1983 he married the writer Lynn Nau, a teacher, and in 1985 the couple had a son named Danny. In 1986, he co-authored with Djordje Milicevic and Jamie Brown, the screenplay for the Canadian action-drama Toby McTeague by Jean -Claude Lord. Between 1986 and 1992 a financially difficult time for him, where he wrote several screenplays, but were not filmed, Maguire was then in 1994 an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for his work on Wolfgang Petersen's dramatic thriller In the Line of Fire - the second chance with Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich in the lead roles, who solved his financial problems at a stroke. In addition, this script was nominated for the BAFTA Awards, for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Writers Guild of America.
In early 2003, finally came the screenplay for Richard Donner Science Fiction movie timeline and in 2006 the script for Phil Joanou sports drama Gridiron Gang for Columbia Pictures.
Jeff Maguire now lives in Manhattan Beach, California.