Stephen Metcalfe

Stephen Metcalfe is an American film director and screenwriter. Metcalfe's career has touched on all forms of dramatic writing; screen, television and stage.

Career

Metcalfe's first produced screenplay was "Jacknife". Based on his Off-Broadway play, "Strange Snow", it starred Robert DeNiro, Ed Harris and Cathy Bates and was directed by British stage and screen veteran, David Jones. The adaptation of French director, Jean-Charles Tachella's, "Cousin, cousine" soon followed. Produced by Paramount Pictures, "Cousins" was directed by Joel Schumacher and starred Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, William Petersen, Sean Young and Lloyd Bridges.

In the early 90's Metcalfe took the darkly realistic, 3000 and turned it into the Pygmalion–like fairy tale, "Pretty Woman". The film starred Julia Roberts and Richard Gere and was directed by Garry Marshall. Numerous rewrites followed. Among them were "Arachnophobia" directed by Frank Marshall; "It Could Happen to You", starring Nicholas Cage and Bridget Fonda and directed by Andrew Bergman; "The Air Up There" starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Paul Michael Glaser; "Mr. Holland's Opus", starring Richard Dreyfuss and directed by Stephen Herek; "The Marrying Man" starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger; "Dangerous Minds" starring Michelle Pfeifer and "Roommates" starring Peter Falk and directed by Peter Yates. Metcalfe has also worked with Sean Connery and Kevin Costner respectively, on the as yet un-produced screenplays, "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and "American Sportsman".

Metcalfe has adopted both stage plays and novels. His play, "Emily" was done for Scott Rudin and Paramount Pictures; "Time Flies", by Paul Link, was adopted for producer Laura Ziskin; A.R. Gurney’s "The Old Boy" was written for Touchstone Pictures and Peter Mayle's comic novel, "Anything Considered", was done for producer, Stanley Jaffe and Sony Pictures.

In 2002 Metcalfe wrote and directed the independent film "Beautiful Joe" starring Sharon Stone and Billy Connelly.

Metcalfe's stage plays include "Loves & Hours", "Vikings", "Strange Snow", "Sorrows and Sons", "Pilgrims", "Half a Lifetime", "Emily", "White Linen", "Divirtimenti", "The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers" and "White man Dancing". His plays continue to be produced in New York and at theaters through the United States as well as in Europe and Japan.

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