Michael Petroni

Michael Petroni is an Australian film writer and director.

Petroni worked in the early 1990s as a comedy writer and performer on Australian television, and appeared as "Psycho Bob", an American serial killer character, in The Big Gig and DAAS Kapital (with the Doug Anthony All Stars).^[1]

In 1994, he moved to Los Angeles to study screenwriting at the AFI Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1996. During his time at the AFI, he wrote his first feature film script, Till Human Voices Wake Us which he subsequently directed as a feature film starring Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter, winning several awards for the script.^[2]

Since his debut, Petroni has also co-written The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), Queen of the Damned (2002) and an English language adaptation of the Korean film Addicted.

On 26 February 2008, Variety reported that Petroni was writing the script for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third installment in The Chronicles of Narnia franchise.^[3]

References

1. ^ Maddox, Gary: Writer finds his voice in Hollywood, The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 September 2002.
2. ^ Australian Film Commission: Films and Awards: Till Human Voices Wake Us
3. ^ Michael Petroni writing next Narnia movie: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

External links

• Michael Petroni at the Internet Movie Database

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