Brian Patrick O'Toole
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Brian Patrick O'Toole is an American film producer and screenwriter.A Necessary Evil. He also wrote the screenplays for the Atlas Shrugged film adaptations.
Life and work
He began his career as a literary agent with the Leslie Kallen Literary Agency and the Helen Garrett Talent Agency before moving on to film producing. Mr. O'Toole's work as script consultant has brought him work with such producers and directors as
Hector Elizondo, Mickey Borofsky, Howard Kazanjian and Neil Marshall, among others. He studied extensively with UCLA's Chairman of Screenwriting Richard Walter and was a member of the Player's Workshop of the Second City in Chicago. Over 20 years of screenwriting and producing career, Mr O'Toole rebooted the werewolf genre with Dog Soldiers, combined horror with comedy in Cemetery Gates, and was one of the first independent filmmakers to use a computer generated character in SleepStalker. In 2007, Mr. O'Toole wrote and produced his first digital films: the zombie actioner Evilution and the thriller Basement Jack. His films have received numerous awards from U.S. and International film festivals. Outside the horror genre, Mr. O'Toole has co-produced the festival favorite Neo Ned and the action thriller Death Valley
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O'Toole also served as the screenwriter for all three installments of the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
Filmography
- Atlas Shrugged: Part III(2014) – Screenwriter
- Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012) – Screenwriter
- Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) – Screenwriter
- Basement Jack (2008) – Producer/Screenwriter
- Evilution (2008) – Producer/Screenwriter
- Cemetery Gates (2006) Co-Producer/Screenwriter
- Boo (2005) – Co-Producer
- Neo Ned (2005) – Co-Producer
- Death Valley (2004) – Co-Producer
- Dog Soldiers (2002) – Co-Producer
- Sleepstalker (1995) Co-Producer
- Mind Twister (1994) – Assistant Producer
References
External links
- Brian Patrick O'Toole at IMDb
- Brian Patrick O'Toole at AllMovie
- Fatally Yours Interview
- Brian Patrick O'Toole Libertas Film Magazine
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