Simon Moore (writer)
{{Short description|British screenwriter, director, and playwright}}
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{{Infobox person
|name = Simon Moore
|birth_name =
|image = Simon Moore.jpg
| nationality = British
|birth_date = 1 March 1958
|birth_place = Lambeth, London, England
|occupation = Screenwriter, Playwright, Director
| known_for = Traffik
}}
Simon Moore is a British screenwriter, director, and playwright. He is best known as writer for the 1989 six-part BBC miniseries about the international illegal drug trade, Traffik, the basis for the 2000 American crime film Traffic and the 2004 three-part USA network miniseries by the same name.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-sep-27-ca-secondlook27-story.html|title='Traffik,' British miniseries|first=Dennis|last=Lim|date=27 September 2009|publisher=|via=LA Times}}{{cite book|author=Yannis Tzioumakis|title=Unknown|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmk3BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA142|date=7 March 2012|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-6453-5|page=142}}
Moore won a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries category for his script for Gulliver's Travels.{{cite web |title=Outstanding writing for a miniseries or a special - 1996 |url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1996/outstanding-writing-in-a-miniseries-or-a-special |website=Emmys |access-date=9 October 2022}}
Career
In 1984 Moore submitted a pilot script to the BBC, about female ex-convicts struggling to carve out a life for themselves after release from prison. Within a week, he was commissioned to write a six part serial, Inside Out, which was transmitted on BBC2 in early 1985."Out for a Job" - Radio Times article, 9-15 February 1985
Moore wrote and directed the 1991 film noir Under Suspicion. He wrote the 1995 cult Western The Quick and the Dead in late 1992, writing it as a homage to the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone, particularly the Dollars Trilogy starring Clint Eastwood. Moore decided the lead character should be a female, stating that "when you introduce women into that kind of world, something very interesting happens and you have an interesting dynamic straight away." The names of the lead villain (Herod) and the town (Redemption) were intentional allusions to the Bible. Moore considered directing his own script as an independent film and shooting The Quick and the Dead on a $3–4 million budget in either Spain or Italy. Sony Pictures Entertainment purchased Moore's script in May 1993.{{cite book | author=John Kenneth Muir | title=The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi | year=2004 | publisher=Applause: Theatre & Cinema Books | location=New York City | pages=[https://archive.org/details/unseenforcefi00muir/page/180 180–189] | isbn=1-55783-607-8 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/unseenforcefi00muir/page/180 }}
Moore wrote the teleplay for the 1996 miniseries adaptation of Gulliver's Travels, which won five Emmys, including Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries for Moore. He also wrote the fantasy miniseries The 10th Kingdom and Dinotopia.
As a playwright, he adapted Stephen King's novel Misery for the stage, with the play premiering in London's West End theatre in 1992 and revived in London in 2005.Gritten, David. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-29-ca-2861-story.html "Sharon Gless Out on a Limb"] Los Angeles Times, December 29, 1992Wolf, Matt. [http://www.deseretnews.com/article/265989/SHOCK-NOVEL-MISERY-COMES-TO-THE-LONDON-STAGE.html%3Fpg%3Dall&usg=AFQjCNE0J0M8NsTgh6vUMwQu_68LTCgRBA "Shock Novel `Misery' Comes to the London Stage"]{{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} deseretnews.com, December 22, 1992
Personal life
Moore lives in Los Angeles, California.
References
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External links
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{{Emmy Award for Miniseries Writing 1979-2000}}
{{Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay}}
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Category:20th-century British dramatists and playwrights
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