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Jan 10, 2023 · A screenwriter for more than 30 years, you could say Paul Guay has earned his share of success: His screenplays have earned $500 million at the worldwide box office. Guay conceived and co-wrote Liar, Liar, the movie starring the irrepressible Jim Carrey as a devious lawyer that can no longer lie.
Nov 4, 2019 · Who he is: The screenwriter who co-wrote such films as Liar, Liar and Heartbreakers, Paul Guay began his acting/writing career in grade school. "I started out loving acting," he says.
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Oct 28, 2019 · If you are interested in how movies are made, how to make a career in Hollywood, how the landscape is changing as well as the art of cinema, novels, short stories, poems and how that culture impacts our lives and society, this is a conversation not to be missed.
- Liar Liar's Inauspicious Start
- Brian Grazer Comes to Liar Liar's Rescue
- Jim Carrey: The Biggest Name in Comedy
- Objection, Your Honor!
- Lies Are Lucrative
- Liar Liar's Honest Legacy
Following a number of early pitch meetings, Guay and Mazur got a dire call from their manager. "She says, 'This is a disaster. Not only do they not want to buy this movie, but it's hurting your careers by pitching this idea. They don't like this idea at all,'" Mazur reveals. "So we canceled the rest of the meetings." Neither writer can firmly recal...
In any case, the writers placedLiar Liar on ice for several years until they happened to stop by the offices of Imagine Entertainment for a general sit-down with the appropriately named David Friendly (a key lieutenant of Imagine co-founders, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard). One of the subjects broached during this meeting was Mazur's time as a prosec...
While writing the character of Fletcher, Guay and Mazur envisioned Tom Hanks or Steve Martin in the role. "Somebody who can do physical comedy and who is at home with tugging at the heartstrings [and] has some a certain amount of dramatic heft," Guay explains. Hugh Grant was seriously interested in boarding the project as the lead, but was forced t...
Guay and Mazur originally had Fletcher lying through his teeth in a murder case before switching the courtroom topic to divorce. In the movie, an ambitious Fletcher agrees to represent the unfaithful — and rather unpleasant — Samantha Cole (Jennifer Tilly), who, despite having very clearly cheated on her husband, sues for half the marital assets an...
Liar Liar opened in theaters on March 21, 1997 — just two weeks after the release of Howard Stern's Private Parts. "I was incredibly depressed because I figured he would clean our clock at the box office," Guay remembers. "So when we took the first weekend and had the biggest opening weekend in March, it's like, ‘This is a good sign.’" Mazur assert...
Maybe this lack of a sequel was for the best. Even after 25 years, the original film not only stands as a shining testament to the talents of Jim Carrey, but to a perfectly executed comedy. "Liar Liar is sometimes referenced as one of the ideal pitches for folks and they don't know the truth," Mazur says. "The truth is it totally bombed completely....
Paul Guay is a writer, actor, director, teacher, script consultant, speaker, and workshop leader whose movies have grossed over half a billion dollars.
Paul Guay is a writer, actor, director, and script consultant whose movies have grossed over half a billion dollars. He is the 2019 recipient of the Great Teacher Award (Part-Time Faculty) at ArtCenter College of Design.
Teacher / Mentor / Script Consultant. Paul is an Associate Professor at ArtCenter College of Design, where he teaches “Screenwriting: What’s the Story?” and “Screenwriting: Adventures in Shorts” to graduate students and undergrads.
