Richard Jefferies (screenwriter)
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Richard L. Jefferies (born March 1956) is an American screenwriter, film producer, film director and editor. He wrote and executive produced Cold Creek Manor. He was a screenwriter on Tron Legacy for Disney Studios and directed the 2008 Syfy Original film Living Hell. Jefferies partners with writer/director/producer Ethan Wiley in transmedia production company Wiseacre Films.
Career
Jefferies' father was a movie theater manager.Richard Jefferies: [http://www.wordplayer.com/pros/pr09.Jefferies.Richard.html The Secret to My Lack of Success] at wordplayer.com He studied from 1974 to 1978 at California Institute of the Arts.[http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardjefferies Richard Jefferies] at linkedin.com Together with Mark Kirkland he won a Student Academy Award for his animated short film Fame about a song by David Bowie.[http://www.burbankfilmfestival.org/img/BIFF_CATALOG_V4_lowres.pdf Burbank International FilmFestival 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605083720/http://www.burbankfilmfestival.org/img/BIFF_CATALOG_V4_lowres.pdf |date=June 5, 2016 }} at burbankfilmfestival.org, page 12 After his studies he founded New Hollywood Inc. together with David Koenigsberg, Osvaldo Zornizer and Mark Kirkland.[http://www.the-cosmic-forces.net/cast/koenigsberg_david1.html David Koenigsberg] at the-cosmic-forces.net
His work on Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Tron: Legacy was not credited.Rehfeld, Nina: [http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/0,1518,772136-2,00.html Fortsetzung folgt und folgt und folgt] at Spiegel Online November 7, 2011
Filmography
- 1982: Blood Tide
- 1984: Action Impossible
- 1988: 14 Going on 30
- 1988: Scarecrows
- 1992: The Vagrant{{Cite journal|last=Ferrante|first=Anthony C.|author-link=Anthony C. Ferrante|date=May 1992|title=The Vagrancies of Scriptwriting|url=https://archive.org/details/Fangoria_112/page/n39|journal=Fangoria|issue=112|pages=40–43}}
- 1995: Man of the House
- 2003: Cold Creek Manor
- 2007: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
- 2008: Living Hell
- 2010: Tron: Legacy
- 2012: Elf-Man
- Canceled: adaptation of Dean Koontz's novel The Bad Place
- Canceled: Sonic: Wonders of the World{{cite web |last1=Owen |first1=Luke |title=The Sonic the Hedgehog Movie That Never Got Made |url=http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/07/06/the-sonic-the-hedgehog-movie-that-never-got-made |website=Kotaku |access-date=July 7, 2018 |date=July 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023045655/http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/07/06/the-sonic-the-hedgehog-movie-that-never-got-made |archive-date=October 23, 2018 |url-status=dead }}
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0420135|Richard Jefferies}}
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Category:American male screenwriters
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