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He is known for writing the films Go (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Frankenweenie (2012), the Disney live-action adaptation of Aladdin (2019), the novels Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire (2018), Arlo Finch in the Lake of the ...
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- John Tilton Meise, August 4, 1970 (age 53), Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
- 1998–present
Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire. Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire is a middle-grade fiction fantasy novel, written by American screenwriter John August. It was published on February 6, 2018 by Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.
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- John August
- February 6, 2018
- Roaring Brook Press, Macmillan Publishing
Aladdin is a 2019 American musical fantasy film directed by Guy Ritchie from a screenplay he co-wrote with John August. Co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Rideback , it is a live-action adaptation of Disney's 1992 animated film Aladdin , itself based on " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp ", a French addition to the Middle Eastern folktale ...
- $1.054 billion
- Alan Menken
- $183 million
- Dan Lin, Jonathan Eirich
John August. Writer: Big Fish. John August's screenwriting credits include Go (1999), Big Fish (2003), Titan A.E. (2000), Charlie's Angels (2000), and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003). Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, John earned a degree in journalism from Drake University in Iowa and an MFA in film from the Peter Stark program at ...
- Writer, Producer, Director
- August 4, 1970
- 2 min
3 days ago · John and Craig can’t help but look at intrinsic motivations — those specific internal drives that guide characters behavior. They discuss how to structure and expose that internal drive, the importance of an innate irritability, how it can stop your characters from becoming flat, and rewarding that intrinsic motivation with choice.
He is known for writing the films Go (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Frankenweenie (2012), the Disney live-action adaptation of Aladdin (2019), the novels Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire (2018), Arlo Finch in the Lake of the ...
I’m mostly known as a screenwriter. My credits include Go, Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, Titan A.E., Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie. I’m writing the Arlo Finch series of middle-grade fiction books. If you like Harry Potter or Percy Jackson, there’s a good chance you’ll dig them.
