John Orloff
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| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable work(s) | Band of Brothers, A Mighty Heart |
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John Orloff is an American Emmy Award-nominated screenwriter.
[edit] Biography
Orloff began in the film industry as an assistant director for the 1997 film Life Sold Separately. Although he studied writing at the University of California, Los Angeles he went on to work in the advertising business, as he thought production studios would not be interested in hiring young writers, though he was a member of an informal writing group for fifteen years.[1] After ten years working on commercials, he met a development executive, now his wife, from the HBO television network. When she continually brought home what he felt were "awful" screenplays, he decided to write his own, a 16th-century English melodrama based on the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays, which ended up being sent to Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.[1] They were not interested in producing his project, but Hanks asked Orloff, a keen "World War II buff", to join the writing staff of the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, which Hanks and Spielberg created.[1] His writing on Band of Brothers earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special, shared with the series' other writers,[2] and a Christopher Award, shared with the other crew members.[3]
In 2003, the Warner Bros. film studios paid over $500,000 for filming rights for Mariane Pearl's memoir A Mighty Heart, and Orloff was signed to write the adapted screenplay over a year after acquiring the filming rights.[4] His script for the film earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay.[1]
Orloff has collaborated with Hanks and Michael Mann on a project about Julius Caesar titled Caesar,[2] and is working on an adaptation of the children's fantasy book series The Guardians of Ga'hoole, which is being directed by Zack Snyder.[1] He has also written an adaptation of the science fiction novel The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.[2]
Orloff appeared as a panelist at New Orleans' National World War II Museum's second international World War II conference in April 2008, of which the theme was "Real to Reel: World War II in Film, Newsreels and Documentaries".[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Patrick Walsh (23 January 2008). The Write Stuff: Interview with "A Mighty Heart" Screenwriter John Orloff. Cinematical. Retrieved on 2008-03-21.
- ^ a b c 10 Questions: John Orloff. IGN (May 14, 2004). Retrieved on 2008-03-21.
- ^ The 2002 Christopher Award Winners. The Christophers. Retrieved on 2008-03-21.
- ^ Christian Moerk (August 25, 2005). Dueling visions of Daniel Pearl. International Herald Tribune. Retrieved on 2008-03-21.
- ^ Real to Reel: Hollywood and World War II. New Orleans Online. Retrieved on 2008-03-21.
