Benedict Fitzgerald, the co-writer of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, has died. He was 74.
Fitzgerald died Jan. 17 after a long illness at his home in Marsala, Sicily, his cousin Nancy Morgan Ritter told The Hollywood Reporter.
Best known for his work on Gibson’s 2004 Biblical epic, the highest-grossing Christian film, as well as the highest-grossing independent film of all time, Fitzgerald’s other credits include co-writing the screenplay for John Huston’s Wise Blood (1979), the adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s novel.
Born on March 9, 1949, in New York, Fitzgerald was born into a literary household. His deeply Catholic mother, Sally, was a writer and editor and his father, Robert, was a poet, United States Poet Laureate (1984-1985), critic, and famed translator of classic ancient Greek and Latin texts, who was responsible for perhaps the most well-known translation of Homer’s The Odyssey.
In the late 1950s, Fitzgerald’s family...
Fitzgerald died Jan. 17 after a long illness at his home in Marsala, Sicily, his cousin Nancy Morgan Ritter told The Hollywood Reporter.
Best known for his work on Gibson’s 2004 Biblical epic, the highest-grossing Christian film, as well as the highest-grossing independent film of all time, Fitzgerald’s other credits include co-writing the screenplay for John Huston’s Wise Blood (1979), the adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s novel.
Born on March 9, 1949, in New York, Fitzgerald was born into a literary household. His deeply Catholic mother, Sally, was a writer and editor and his father, Robert, was a poet, United States Poet Laureate (1984-1985), critic, and famed translator of classic ancient Greek and Latin texts, who was responsible for perhaps the most well-known translation of Homer’s The Odyssey.
In the late 1950s, Fitzgerald’s family...
- 1/22/2024
- by Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Man, Hollywood really likes making movies about and or related to Stanley Kubrick. There’s “Color Me Kubrick” with John Malkovich, it feels like every year there’s some Kubrick-related script on the Black List, and this year we have “Moonwalkers” which is about that conspiracy theory that Apollo 11 never actually happened and in reality, Stanley Kubrick, secretly shot the famous images of the moon landing in a studio, working for the U.S. administration. Set in swinging sixties London, it focuses on a stubborn CIA agent (Ron Perlman a.k.a. “Hellboy") who can’t find Kubrick but instead is forced to team up with the lousy manager of a seedy rock band (Rupert Grint) to develop the biggest con of all time: staging the moon landing. The film made its world premiere earlier this year at the 2015 SXSW where is was described as a “riotous, high-tempo action-comedy.
- 11/11/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
The hardest working man in show-business (or maybe I should say, One of the hardest working me in show-business) continues to live up to that label.
Just take a look at his IMDb page, and the 15 or so films he has coming up over the next 2 years. Granted not a of them will see actual production, but he’s clearly a man in demand. He’s very good at yelling, I guess, and yellers are in all the rage these days it seems…
I kid, I kid…
Of course I’m talking about Samuel L. Jackson who has signed up for a film described as a neo-noir thriller, titled, The Samaritan, to be directed by David Weaver (mostly TV work and short films previously, until now).
Mr L. Jackson will play a fella by the name of Foley, “a grifter trying to escape from his past having spent 20 years in prison.
Just take a look at his IMDb page, and the 15 or so films he has coming up over the next 2 years. Granted not a of them will see actual production, but he’s clearly a man in demand. He’s very good at yelling, I guess, and yellers are in all the rage these days it seems…
I kid, I kid…
Of course I’m talking about Samuel L. Jackson who has signed up for a film described as a neo-noir thriller, titled, The Samaritan, to be directed by David Weaver (mostly TV work and short films previously, until now).
Mr L. Jackson will play a fella by the name of Foley, “a grifter trying to escape from his past having spent 20 years in prison.
- 3/17/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Samuel L. Jackson has been cast as the lead character in a new film called The Samaritan, which aslo co-stars Luke Kirby (Shattered Glass) and Ruth Negga (Color Me Kubrick). The film will be directed by David Weaver, and is described as a neo-noir thriller.
In the story "Jackson plays Foley, a grifter trying to escape from his past having spent 20 years in prison. But he gets ensnared in the plans of a young protege and it becomes all too clear to Foley that some wrongs can never be made right."
Jackson is always fun to watch in the movies he makes, regardless of how bad the actual movie is. The idea behind this film doesn't seem like anything new.
The movie starts shooting in Toronto this coming Sunday. When Jackson is done with it he'll jump back into the shoes of Nick Fury for Joss Whedon's The Avengers.
In the story "Jackson plays Foley, a grifter trying to escape from his past having spent 20 years in prison. But he gets ensnared in the plans of a young protege and it becomes all too clear to Foley that some wrongs can never be made right."
Jackson is always fun to watch in the movies he makes, regardless of how bad the actual movie is. The idea behind this film doesn't seem like anything new.
The movie starts shooting in Toronto this coming Sunday. When Jackson is done with it he'll jump back into the shoes of Nick Fury for Joss Whedon's The Avengers.
- 3/17/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Exclusive: Before donning Nick Fury’s eye patch in The Avengers, Samuel L Jackson is starring in The Samaritan, a neo-noir thriller directed by David Weaver. Luke Kirby (Shattered Glass) and Ruth Negga (Color Me Kubrick) co-star. Filming starts on location Sunday in Toronto, Canada and Rio De Janeiro. Jackson plays Foley, a grifter trying to escape from his past having spent 20 years in prison. But he gets ensnared in the plans of a young protege and it becomes all too clear to Foley that some wrongs can never be made right. Andras Hamori of Los Angeles-based H20 Motion Pictures is producing, and the executive producer is Mark Musselman (Barney’s Version). UK-based financier Quickfire Films is backing the project alongside Canadian state fund Telefilm Canada, the Harold Greenberg Fund and the Ontario Media Development Corporation. Entertainment One has already taken The Samaritan for Canada. H20 has also pre-sold the movie to Germany,...
- 3/17/2011
- by TIM ADLER in London
- Deadline London
Back in March, 2007, with his talk with Color Me Kubrick's Brian Cook, Nick Dawson inaugurated a new column here at Filmmakermagazine.com: the Director Interviews. Over the course of two-and-a-half years, he infallibly spun out thoughtful and provocative discussions with directors ranging from emerging American indies to big-name international auteurs to everyone in between. Viewing the bulk of each week's releases before honing in on one person to speak with, Dawson brought dedication, scholarship and personality to a column that was always, first and foremost, simply a great read. Earlier this year Dawson published his first book, Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel, a rigorously researched, page-turning biography of the iconic...
- 11/5/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Potter's 'Yes' to launch Dinard fest of Brit films
PARIS -- The 16th Dinard Festival of British Film, which unspools in the Brittany resort Oct. 6-9, will open with Sally Potter's Yes, organizers said Thursday. The film stars Joan Allen and Simon Abkarian in the tale of a tempestuous love affair between an American woman and a Middle Eastern man that takes them from London to Beirut and Havana. The six-strong Dinard competition lineup includes Colour me Kubrick directed by Brian Cook, which stars John Malkovich in the true story of man who impersonated director Stanley Kubrick, and Stoned, Stephen Woolley's telling of the tragic end of former Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones.
- 9/8/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Europa boards 'Kubrick'
PARIS -- French movie group Europa Corp. has come on board the English-language comedy Colour Me Kubrick, starring John Malkovich, which started shooting over the weekend, Europa's Pierre-Ange Le Pogam said Monday. The film is based on a true story. Malkovich plays Alan Conway, who began impersonating Stanley Kubrick during the shoot of Eyes Wide Shut, crashing parties in the guise of the legendary director despite the fact that he looked nothing like him. Perhaps taking his impersonating too far, Conway died just four months before the director's own demise in 1999. The movie is directed and produced by Brian Cook, who was first assistant on the Kubrick movies Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining and Barry Lyndon.
- 1/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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