Adam Green (filmmaker)

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Adam Green

Born Adam Green
March 31, 1975 (1975-03-31) (age 33)
Holliston, Mass., USA
Occupation Film director, writer, and actor

Adam Green (born March 31, 1975) is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. [1] Green made his feature film debut with 2000's comedy, Coffee & Donuts. [2] Green made his mark in the industry with his 2006 release of Hatchet, a horror film described as, "Old school American Horror." [3]

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[edit] Biography

Green was raised in Holliston, Massachusetts and after finishing high school he graduated from Hofstra University in New York. Green’s very first job out of college was producing and directing local commercials for cable in the Boston area. Green made his feature film debut with the comedy, Coffee & Donuts, which was in part, based on his own life. Green founded ArieScope Pictures with Director of Photography, Will Barratt in 1997. He was the lead singer for the metal band, Haddonfield based out of Salem, Massachusetts at one time. He also worked as the DJ at the world famous Rainbow Bar & Grill on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, where he still comes to perform stand-up comedy every few months. [4] His upcoming films include a romantic comedy entitled, God Only Knows, and an adaptation of the famous graphic novel, Dead West. [5]

[edit] Feature Film Writing and Directing career

[edit] Coffee & Donuts

Coffee & Donuts was a lighthearted comedy about two friends, Adam and Steve, strive to get their morning radio program off of the small town air waves of Holliston and into the big time. Meanwhile, Adam struggles to get over a break up with his long-time girlfriend and back into the magnificent and horrendous world of dating. The film was made for only $400 by borrowing equipment from the cable advertising facility that he was working for at the time and by using friends and volunteers for everything from cast to crew. Green starred in the lead role while other parts were played by Steven C. DeWitt Jr., Katie Bove, and Jeff Davison. The movie was bought by Disney/Touchstone and developed as a sit-com for UPN in 2004. The pilot episode’s script was written by Adam Green himself and produced by Tom Shadyac's Shady Acres. The fate of the show is still a mystery. [6]

[edit] Hatchet

Green took a six year hiatus after Coffee & Donuts and released the popular horror film, Hatchet in 2006. [7] The film, described as “old school American horror”, was about a group of tourists on a boat ride of the haunted Louisiana bayous where they learn the ghastly tale of local legend "Victor Crowley"; a hideously disfigured man who was sadly killed accidentally with a hatchet by the hands of his own father. But when the boat sinks and the ghost story turns out to be real, the group tries urgently to flee the swamp with their lives. [8] This film was for the most part, well received by critics, Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News hailed the film saying, “Director Adam Green is the real deal – and Victor Crowley is a friggin fantastic horror icon waiting to be unleashed upon all y’all,” and included the film on his Top Ten films of 2006. The film starred Joel David Moore, Kane Hodder, Robert Englund, and Tony Todd. [9]

[edit] Spiral

In 2007 Green released Spiral, which he co-directed with actor, Joel David Moore. The film was about an isolated telemarketer (Moore), whose dysfunctional closeness with his boss is lessened when an idiosyncratic new co-worker enters his life. But as he begins to draw his new friend's portrait, troubling feelings from his past threaten to lead him down a path of annihilation. [10]

[edit] Filmography

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[edit] Television

  • Cheerleader Camp (2008)
  • It’s a Mall World (2007) (mini-series)

[edit] References

  1. ^ ariescope
  2. ^ Coffee & Donuts (2000) - Plot summary
  3. ^ MySpace.com - HATCHET - 51 - Garçon - New Orleans, Louisiana - www.myspace.com/victorcrowleylives
  4. ^ ariescope
  5. ^ Hatchet - In Theaters September 7, 2007
  6. ^ Coffee and Donuts - ArieScope Pictures
  7. ^ Hatchet - In Theaters September 7, 2007
  8. ^ allmovie ((( Hatchet > Overview )))
  9. ^ Join The Hatchet Army!
  10. ^ Spiral the Movie - Joel David Moore, Amber Tamblyn, Zachary Levi

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NAME Green, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION American film director, writer, and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 31 March 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Holliston, Mass., USA
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH