Andrew Kevin Walker

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Andrew Kevin Walker (born August 14, 1964) is an American screenwriter, producer, and script doctor.

He is best known for his script Seven (1995), for which he received a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as several other films, including 8mm (1999), Sleepy Hollow (1999), and several uncredited script rewrites.

Early life and education

Walker was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, but he migrated to Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, where he was raised during his childhood. He attended Mechanicsburg Senior High School until 1982, his first year. Walker enrolled in Penn State University to pursue a film career shortly after. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in film and video in 1986.

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Film career

He moved to New York City and started working at Tower Records shortly after finishing his education. Walker was involved on many projects during this period, but he was unable to find much success until 1991, when he wrote the script for Seven. Walker decided to move to Los Angeles to sell his screenplay. David Koepp, the script's editor who presented it to New Line Cinema executives, was consulted personally by him, who eventually purchased the rights to it. Nevertheless, it took almost three years for the film to be completed. Jeremiah Chechik was initially intended to direct the holiday film, but he requested a variety of changes, including the removal of the head in a box scene. Walker continued reworking the script, but the film was shelved in Hollywood. After David Fincher read the original draft, which was mistakenly delivered with the ending intact, the film went ahead.

Walker found other writings, Brainscan (1994) and the novel version Hideaway (1995), all while the project was ongoing.

Seventeen other films began a production run, with Fincher as the producer and staring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, and Kevin Spacey. Several changes were made during film, which would later become a recurring theme throughout Walker's career — but the studio felt it was too dark for its intended audience. Walker's original script was supported by both Fincher and Freeman, but it was ultimately unchanged. The film received critical acclaim and record-breaking box office success, grossing $327,311,859 worldwide. It will encourage Walker to make a name for himself in the film business.

Walker, on the other hand, will not receive another film credit for another four years, though he did write several uncredited rewrites during this period, including The Game (on which he worked with David Fincher) and Paul W. S. Anderson's Event Horizon. Walker's 8MM saw the light of day in 1999, having been sold by him for $1.25 million. The film's development was once more concerned about the tense subject matter, and the studio begged Walker to brighten the film's tone. Walker feared that a rewrite would no longer be needed, particularly with Joel Schumacher as director. However, Schumacher embraced the studio and made changes of his own, leading to a much-publicized fallout between the two performers, with Walker practically dismissing the film and walking away from the set. He refused to even watch the film, which became a critical failure. In a telephone interview with The Guardian, he said that "it was such an ingly sad experience that the very least I could do was shielding myself from the horrible experience of actually watching it." Rather than remaking Seven, he expressed his openness to a redo 8MM in 2015. With Somerset just standing there helpless as Mills fired John Doe, the latter had left the studios and producers dissatisfied.

Walker had some success in 1999 as he wrote uncredited rewrites to the critical hits Stir of Echoes and Fight Club, which are now considered a cult classic. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was also included in Walker's version as Sleepy Hollow, directed by Tim Burton. Although Burton adored Walker's original script, he brought on playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard to tone down the violence. Johnny Depp's film, which was also a box office and critical hit, was still a box office and critical success.

Walker has written several screenplays that never have been approved or have yet to be released, including a script for a movie starring the superhero Silver Surfer, a sequel to X-Men (1994) and a Batman vs. Superman. The second film was supposed to be released, but Warner Bros. decided to revive their franchises separately, and so the script was shelved. The film seemed to be shelved for good after the initial success of Batman Begins and Superman Returns, but Wolfgang Petersen, who was supposed to direct the film, continued to express his enthusiasm. The Zack Snyder-helmed Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice script and version of the project was indefinitely shelved in favour of the Zack Snyder-led Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt appeared in the animated dark comedy Nerdland, which was released by Walker in 2016.

Walker produced as-yet unproduced screenplays for both Seven director David Fincher's The Girl Who Played with Fire and a Peter Proud reincarnation, as well as a new interpretation of Ernest Hemingway's The Killers.

In addition, Walker wrote two shorts for BMW Films' The Hire, starring Clive Owen, directed by John Frankenheimer, and Wong Kar-wai's The Follower.

Walker co-wrote (with David Self and Paul Attanasio) the screenplay for The Wolfman, a Universal Studios remake of the Universal Studios classic. Benicio del Toro in the title role was directed by Joe Johnston and starring Benicio del Toro in the title role.

"Best of the Year" was selected for Walker's 2015 Kindle Single, Old Man Johnson (his first book) by Amazon.

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