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He wrote the Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays. Towne also wrote the sequel, The Two Jakes (1990), and the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail (1973) and Shampoo (1975).
Chinatown is set in 1937 and portrays the manipulation of a critical municipal resource—water—by a cadre of shadowy oligarchs. It was the first part of Towne's planned trilogy about the character J. J. Gittes, the foibles of the Los Angeles power structure, and the subjugation of public good by private greed.
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Aug 10, 2023 · David Fincher, along with Josh Donen, is teaming up with Robert Towne, the Academy Award-winning writer who penned the 1974 film, to executive produce the series. Towne also wrote the prequel. It is unconfirmed whether Fincher is involved in the writing of the show despite reportedly closing a deal to co-write the same back in 2019.
Mar 21, 2017 · Iconic screenwriter Robert Towne may be best-known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski 's Chinatown, which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written.
Aug 3, 2020 · The first and most notorious had been hatched at the home of the original’s producer, Robert Evans in the early part of that decade. Despite its one-off perfection, Chinatown had always been...
Jan 19, 2024 · Towne, the screenwriter, who would be the only one to win an Oscar for Chinatown, envisioned it as the first film in a trilogy, but after the 1990 sequel, The Two Jakes, didn’t live up to...
Nov 6, 2007 · In a rare interview last week, Nicholson revealed exclusively to MTV News the grand initial vision for a "Chinatown" trilogy that he and writer Robert Towne hatched.
