Andrew Kevin Walker
Andrew Kevin Walker | |
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Born | Altoona, Pennsylvania, U.S. | August 14, 1964
Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, film producer, script doctor |
Years active | 1993–present |
Andrew Kevin Walker (born August 14, 1964) is an American screenwriter. He is known for having written Seven (1995), for which he earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as several other films, including 8mm (1999), Sleepy Hollow (1999) and many uncredited script rewrites.
Early life and education
Walker was born in
Film career
Shortly after completing his education, he moved to New York City and took a job at
While the project was ongoing, Walker found other work as a screenwriter, including a short stint with
Seven began production between his two other films, headed by Fincher as the
It would allow Walker to make a name for himself in the movie industry.However, Walker would not earn another film credit to his name for another four years, though he penned several uncredited rewrites during this period, including The Game (on which he again worked with David Fincher) and Paul W. S. Anderson's Event Horizon.[5] In 1999, Walker's 8MM finally saw the light of day, having been sold by him for a reported $1.25 million. Once again, the film's production encountered concerns regarding the dark subject matter, and the studio asked Walker to lighten the film's tone. With Joel Schumacher as director, Walker felt a rewrite would no longer be needed. But as it turned out, Schumacher supported the studio and made changes of his own, leading to a much-publicized fallout between the two, with Walker virtually disowning the film and walking away from the set. He refused to even watch the film, which became a critical failure.[6] In an interview with The Guardian, he said that "it was such an inherently depressing experience that the very least I can do is protect myself from the miserable experience of actually watching it."[7] In 2015, he expressed his openness to a redo 8MM instead of remaking Seven.[7] The latter had left the studios and producers unhappy with Somerset merely standing there helpless as Mills shot John Doe.[8]
Walker found other success in 1999, as he penned uncredited rewrites to the critical hits
Since the mid-1990s, Walker wrote several screenplays that were never greenlit or have yet to go into production, such as a script for a movie starring the superhero Silver Surfer, a version of X-Men (2000; his script was written in 1994),[10] and a film tentatively titled Batman vs. Superman. The latter film was set to go into production, but Warner Bros. opted to revive their franchises separately, and so the script was shelved.[11] After the announcement and subsequent successes of Batman Begins and Superman Returns, the film seemed to be shelved permanently, though Wolfgang Petersen, who was due to direct the feature, had continued to express his interest in the project.[12] That script and version of the project was permanently shelved in favor of the Zack Snyder helmed Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Walker wrote the 2016 animated dark comedy Nerdland, starring Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt.
Walker also wrote as-yet unproduced screenplays for the American version of The Girl Who Played with Fire and a remake of The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, both for Seven director David Fincher, as well as the adaption of the graphic novel "The Killer" by Alexis Nolent, which has been filmed by Fincher and stars Michael Fassbender. [13]
Other projects
Walker also wrote two shorts for the BMW Films series The Hire, starring Clive Owen: Ambush, directed by John Frankenheimer, and The Follow, by Wong Kar-wai.
Walker also co-wrote (with
Amazon named Walker's 2015 Kindle Single, Old Man Johnson (his first novel), among its "Best of the Year."
Appearances in film
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Walker is known for making short
Filmography
Film
Writer
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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1994 | Brainscan | John Flynn | |
1995 | Hideaway | Brett Leonard | |
Seven | David Fincher | Also Actor: Dead Man at 1st Crime Scene | |
1999 | 8mm | Joel Schumacher | |
Sleepy Hollow | Tim Burton | Also co-producer (Uncredited) | |
2001 | Ambush | John Frankenheimer | Part of The Hire series |
The Follow | Wong Kar-wai | ||
2010 | The Wolfman
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Joe Johnston | |
2016 | Nerdland | Chris Prynoski | Also producer |
2022 | Windfall | Charlie McDowell | Also executive producer |
2023 | The Killer | David Fincher |
- Event Horizon (1997)
- The Game (1997)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Stir of Echoes (1999)
Other credits
Year | Titles | Role | Notes |
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1986 | Robot Holocaust | Scenic painter
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2002 | Panic Room | As "Sleepy Neighbor" | Cameo appearance |
2009 | Logorama | Voice role as Pringles Hot & Spicy | Short film |
Television
Year | Title | Director | Episode |
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1993 | Tales from the Crypt | Elliot Silverstein | "Well Cooked Hams" |
1997 | Perversions of Science | Tobe Hooper | "Panic" |
2022 | Love, Death & Robots | David Fincher | "Bad Travelling" |
References
- ^ a b c Andrew Kevin Walker
- ^ a b Couch, Aaron (January 13, 2017). "'Seven' Screenwriter on How a Mix-Up With David Fincher Led to Its Gutsy Ending". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
- ^ Seven - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Seven (1995)
- ^ God of Andrew Kevin Walker writer of Se7en Archived June 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Andrew Kevin Walker - Biography - MSN Movies". Archived from the original on December 8, 2007. Retrieved June 28, 2007.
- ^ ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
- ^ Burns, Asley; Schilhause, Chloe (September 22, 2015). "'Seven' Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker Looks Back At What's Inside The Box, 20 Years Later". UPROXX. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
- ^ Sleepy Hollow at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ "X-Men," by Andrew Kevin Walker
- ISBN 1-4116-4543-X.
- ^ Wolfgang Peterson Will Do Batman Vs. Superman! at IESB.net
- ^ McKittrick, Christopher (April 26, 2016). ""My love letter to Los Angeles" – Andrew Kevin Walker on Nerdland". Creative Screenwriting. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
External links
- Official website
- Andrew Kevin Walker at IMDb