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Kelly gave up being an actress in her mid-20s because she "hated it". She had left school at 15, had never been to college and ended up working in a UK video shop when she began to write. Her success in writing for TV and films came very quickly.
- January 10, 1974
She wrote it for her dad, who had been telling her about the supercontinent Gondwanaland and reading a Stephen Hawking book on time travel. Marcel, who had just seen Al Gore 's 2006 global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, combined these three influences into the script.
Dec 13, 2013 · December 13, 2013. Last October, British screenwriter Kelly Marcel shot from obscurity to international headlines when it was announced that E.L. James had handpicked her to adapt her...
Jun 21, 2018 · I was so impressed after reading the 2011 Black List script Saving Mr. Banks, I reached out to its writer Kelly Marcel for an interview. Kelly took time out of her busy schedule to do an email Q&A with me. It’s both informative and terrifically funny as she has a lively sense of humor.
Kelly Marcel. Writer: Saving Mr. Banks. Kelly is primarily a writer for film and television but started her career in musical theater with the UK version of "Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical". She is a co-artistic director of "The Bad Dog Theater Company"; founded in 2010 alongside the actor Tom Hardy and fellow writer Brett C. Leonard.
- January 1, 1
- 3 min
- London, England, UK
Dec 13, 2013 · Marcel has a fascinating history as an aspiring British actress who found herself writing screenplays while working at a London video store. One of her television ideas got the attention of...
Oct 4, 2021 · 'Venom' writer Kelly Marcel discusses her creative process with Tom Hardy and how they approached Carnage in live-action.
