Dan Gilroy

At 64 years old, Dan Gilroy has this physical status:

Daniel Christopher Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film producer.

He is best known for his script and directing Nightcrawler (2014), for which he received Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards, and he was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards.

Gilroy served mainly as a screenwriter before deciding to write and direct.

Freejack (1992), Two for the Money (2005), The Fall (2006), Real Steel (2011), and The Bourne Legacy (2012), his last in collaboration with his brother Tony Gilroy.

Rene Russo, his wife, has also been his frequent collaborator since the two met in 1992 and married later this year.

Early life and education

Dan Gilroy was born in Santa Monica, California, on June 24, 1959. He is the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Frank D. Gilroy (1925–2015), as well as sculptor and writer Ruth Dorothy Gaydos. Tony Gilroy, his brother, a screenwriter and producer, and his fraternal twin brother, John Gilroy, is a film editor. Dan Gilroy loved it as a child, seeing his father work and write at home full-time made the transition into becoming a writer much simpler.

Gilroy grew up in Washington, New York, where he attended Washingtonville High School. He earned a degree in English literature from Dartmouth College, which his father also attended. He and Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr were classmates and attended a class taught by David Thomson, another film critic, at Dartmouth. Gilroy developed an immense fascination with writings of the Victorian period, particularly those of Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot.

Personal life

Rene Russo, a Los Angeles actress with whom he has been married since 1992, is Gilroy's fiancée. Rose is the couple's daughter.

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Career

Gilroy began writing with co-writing the science fiction thriller Freejack (1992) with Steven Pressfield and Ronald Shusett, produced by Geoff Murphy and based on Robert Sheckley's book Immortality, Inc. Rene Russo, the film's co-star, married later this year, was he met him there. He wrote for Chasers (1994), Two for the Money (2005), and The Fall (2006), which followed Freejack. "It's about three people who have been reimagined in relation to one another," Gilroy's script, according to Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, "as a situation arises that is equally risky all the way around."

He co-wrote for Real Steel (2011), directed by Shawn Levy and based on Richard Matheson's short story "Steel." He co-wrote The Bourne Legacy (2012), which was edited by his fraternal twin brother, John Gilroy. The film, directed by Tony Gilroy, is based on Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne novel series. The Gilroys' script, according to Manohla Dargis of The New York Times, has "given [Tony] more to wrangle [which he has] had to deal with before," although Toronto Star reviewer Peter Howell said it reverted "too much into jabbering and jargon, not enough into action."

Gilroy made his directorial debut with the film Nightcrawler (2014), which starred Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, and Riz Ahmed. Gilroy wrote the script after reading the photo book Naked City, a series of photographs taken by American photographer Weegee of 1940s New York City people at night, which he conceived in 1988. Gilroy did not begin writing the script until he moved to Los Angeles two years later, when he noticed an abundance of violent stories on television news. Gilroy's film about a modern equivalent of Weegee, as well as a cautionary tale about the dangers inherent in capitalism. Nightcrawler's script, which was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards, was well received by the public on its unveiling, and Gilroy's script, for which he was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards, and the Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards was lauded by the press. Gilroy closed his acceptance address by blaming the proliferation of superhero films in Hollywood.

Denzel Washington co-wrote Jordan Vogt-Roberts' adventure Kong: Skull Island with Max Borenstein and Derek Connolly in 2017, and wrote and directed Roman J. Israel, Esq., a legal drama starring Denzel Washington. After doing extensive study into the 1960s, where many Americans have vociferously opposed and advocated for specific individual and group rights, Gilroy created Roman J. Israel. The script had begun as a spec, and his titular role was he wrote specifically for Washington; Gilroy has said he would not have written the script if Washington declined to hand over the film. He re-edited the film after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), removing thirteen minutes of runtime to get the story to arrive quickly, though the previous cut had placed a great deal on the characters. On release, although Washington's performance was mostly lauded, Gilroy's script for the film garnered ambivalent reactions from the media: Peter Travers at Rolling Stone praised it as "above average-issue procedural drama but below the transcendent personal drama it aspires to be," although Entertainment Weekly's Chris Nashawaty thought it was ultimately a letdown.

Tim Burton was hired by Tim Burton to re-write Wesley Strick's Superman Lives script, making it more cost-effective and expanding the psychology for the final shooting drafts before it was cancelled by the WB. What happened to Gilroy? He will recount his contribution to the project in 2015. In 2011, he was supposed to write a film adaptation of The Annihilator's comedic strip adventure.

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