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Nov 7, 2019 · Hossein Amini: Again it’s lots of other Sci-Fi’s but also the spiritual aspects of Star Wars that like I said is something that’s always really fascinated me so, yeah I try to keep the research as varied as possible, going into all sorts of books about crisis and extraordinary bits of anthropological stuff and you get inspired by ...
Hossein Amini (Persian: حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director. Amini has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove, including an Academy Award for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay. He also won a "Best Adapted Screenplay" award from the Austin Film ...
Sep 12, 2011 · Jenna Milly. Sep 12, 2011. Modern cowboy Ryan Gosling plays the "driver with no name" in Drive. When asked to adapt a script about a man with no name, no backstory, and barely any dialogue, screenwriter Hossein Amini knew he hit the jackpot. "I love silences," Amini says of Drive, the film he adapted from a book by James Sallis.
Aug 21, 2014 · The Iranian-British Hossein Amini received an Academy Award nomination for his 1997 screenplay adaptation of Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove and wrote the screenplays for Jude (1995), The Four Feathers (2002), and Drive (2011).
Oct 24, 2014 · Hossein Amini: It took me this long because I could never get this particular book which I always loved and wanted to do as a first film but never happened. So many things happened along the way, I wanted to buy the rights which I wasn’t able but then I met someone who could but I met a deal with Miramax but they weren’t interested in this.
Sep 2, 2015 · Oscar and BAFTA-nominated by the age of 30, Amini has established himself as one of the leading screenwriters working today. Following an exclusive two-hour interview with Hossein Amini, Industrial Scripts is sharing the insight and opinions of the BAFTA and Oscar-nominated screenwriter / director. As well as this, Hossein Amini talks openly ...
May 9, 2023 · Hossein Amini stopped by the Script Apart podcast recently to break down one of his early drafts of the movie 'Drive'. by Al Horner - updated on May 9, 2023. Hossein Amini fell in love with storytelling because, when his world turned upside down as a kid, creating his own worlds on the page gave him a sense of control.
