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Being John Malkovich is a 1999 American surrealist fantasy comedy drama film [3] [4] directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, both making their feature film debut. The film stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener, with John Malkovich as a satirical version of himself. Cusack plays a puppeteer who finds a portal that ...
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Oct 3, 2011 · Charlie Kaufman: why I wrote Being John Malkovich. The cult screenwriter relives his big breakthrough – and offers a few writing tips. M y first writing job was on a TV show called Get a Life ...
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1. Charles Stuart Kaufman ( / ˈkɔːfmən /; born November 19, 1958) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. He wrote the films Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). He both wrote and directed the films Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015), and I'm Thinking ...
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- Charles Stuart Kaufman, November 19, 1958 (age 64), New York City, U.S.
Jul 11, 2020 · The screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has written a novel - about a film critic who hates Charlie Kaufman Sat 11 Jul 2020 06.00 EDT ...
- CHARLIE KAUFMAN COMBINED TWO IDEAS TO WRITE THE SCRIPT. Kaufman wrote the script in 1994, after his time writing for Chris Elliott’s Fox sitcom Get a Life.
- KAUFMAN SAYS JOHN MALKOVICH WAS THE ONLY CHOICE TO PLAY THE TITLE ACTOR. “That’s what I thought was funny,” Kaufman told Vulture. “It wouldn’t have worked, in my mind, with anyone else.”
- FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA HELPED GET THE SCRIPT TO MALKOVICH. Francis Ford Coppola—who is Jonze’s former father-in-law (Jonze and Sofia Coppola were married from 1999 to 2003)—called Malkovich on Jonze’s behalf.
- NEW LINE CINEMA WANTED A DIFFERENT ACTOR. The studio dropped the project the day after chairman Robert Shaye asked the producers of the film—which included R.E.M.
Oct 27, 1999 · October 27, 1999 2:00 am. INTERVIEW: Charlie Kaufman, the Man behind "Malkovich". by Anthony Kaufman. “I don’t like talking about myself,” says Charlie Kaufman, writer of the wildly ...
Oct 29, 2019 · W hen Being John Malkovich opened in 1999, nobody knew the name of its screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, who’d spent the previous 15 years laboring in the comedy salt mines, submitting articles on ...
