Jane Goldman
Jane Goldman was born in Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom on June 11th, 1970 and is the Screenwriter. At the age of 53, Jane Goldman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Jane Loretta Anne Goldman (born 11 June 1970) is an English screenwriter, author, and producer.
Matthew Vaughn co-wrote the screenplays of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and its sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2014), as well as X-Men: First Class (2011), Kick-Ass (2010), and Stardust (2007).
In collaboration with Vaughn, Goldman also worked on the story of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), the sequel to First Class.
Both were lauded for their teamwork. The Woman in Black (2012) was Goldman's first solo screenplay.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton's 2016 film adaptation, also penned the script. She has also written Dreamworld (2000) and The X-Files Book of the Unexplained (1997), as well as her own binormal TV series, Jane Goldman Investigates on channel Living from 2003 to 2004.
Early life
Goldman was born in north London's liberal, middle-class family, the only child of a Jewish father and a Buddhist mother. She attended the King Alfred School, an independent school in Hampstead, until the age of 15 before heading to the United States to follow Boy George on tour. Following her return to the United Kingdom, she took up as a gossip reporter for The Daily Star. Jonathan Ross, a 16-year-old girl from Los Angeles, met television presenter Jonathan Ross when she was 16. They married in 1988, when Goldman was 18 years old. Both daughters and a son are the couple's three children.
Professional career
Goldman worked on newspapers and magazines such as Just Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, The Times, Evening Standard, Zero, Daily Star, Total Guitar, Game Zone, and Sega Zone. She began writing as a teenager and became a freelance writer at the age of 19.
She wrote three books: Thirteen-Something (1993), Streetsmarts: A Teenager's Security Book (1996), Sussed and Streetwise (1997), her first and only book Dreamworld, (2000), and Do the Right Thing (2004).
She had her own television show between 2003 and 2004. Jane Goldman Investigates investigated the paranormal and was broadcast by channel Living from 2003 to 2004. Goldman appears on several television shows, including The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, as a producer.
She made the switch to screenwriting and was part of David Baddiel's short-lived sitcom Baddiel's Syndrome in 2001. Later, she co-wrote the screenplay of Stardust (2006), based on Neil Gaiman's book of the same name and directed by Matthew Vaughn. Gaiman brought Goldman to Vaughn to give the director some assistance with the conversion process. The film received many accolades, including the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.
Goldman became a regular collaborator on director Matthew Vaughn's co-writing of his forthcoming films after Stardust (2011). Both films received acclaim amongst film critics. Kick-Ass enjoys a cult following and X-Men: Some commentators praise First Class as one of the finest of all X-Men films. "X-Men: First Class is a welcome return to form for the franchise" according to Rotten Tomatoes' consensus: "With a solid script, stylish direction, and good performances from its well-rounded cast."
She continued to work in adaptations, and she was also a co-writer for Vaughn and Peter Straughan's 2011 drama The Debt, which was based on the 2007 Israeli film HaHov and directed by John Madden. Hammer The Woman In Black, a Goldman adaptation based on Susan Hill's horror book, has also been adapted. James Watkins produced this film, and it was Goldman's first solo screenplay. It was launched in 2012 and received rave reviews. The Woman in Black received the Empire Award for Best Horror in March 2013.
She is credited on X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to First Class, as author Matthew Vaughn and Simon Kinberg, as the protagonist.
The script for Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015), based on Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons' comic book, was co-written by Vaughn and Goldman. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an adaptation of the Ransom Riggs novel of the same name that was directed by Tim Burton, she wrote the script for her book Home for Peculiar Children.
In the 2020 version of Daphne du Maurier's Gothic romance Rebecca directed by Ben Wheatley, Goldman co-wrote the script.
Goldman is currently working on a variety of forthcoming projects, including Nonplayer, an adaptation of Nate Simpson's sci-fi comic book; and a rewrite of the Pinocchio screenplay; and a rewrite of the Pinocchio script based on a science-fiction/comedy short story based on a Paul Murray's short story. On December 6, 2017, Goldman would write a screenplay for Disney's live-action version of The Little Mermaid, with Rob Marshall being able to direct. On May 26, 2023, the film will be released.
In May 2017, HBO revealed Goldman as one of four writers on a potential pilot for a Game of Thrones spin-off. In addition to Goldman, Carly Wray, Max Borenstein, and Brian Helgeland, several pilots were also researching potential pilots. Goldman has been living and interacting with George R. Martin, the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, as well as the original trilogy's A Song of Ice and Fire line, on which the original series is based. Both D. B. Weiss and David Benioff, the Game of Thrones showrunners, will be executive producers for whatever project is chosen by HBO. In June 2018, HBO had announced that Goldman's pilot had been approved by HBO, and that "the world's decline from the golden Age of Heroes to its darkest hour" thousands of years before Game of Thrones' events. HBO would not be moving forward with the pilot in late October 2019.