- Andrew Kevin Walker
Infobox actor
birthdate = birth date and age|1964|8|14
birthplace = flagicon|USAAltoona, Pennsylvania , U.S.
yearsactive = 1993 - present
occupation =Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker (bornAugust 14 ,1964 ) is an American BAFTA-nominatedscreenwriter . He is known for having written theAcademy Award -nominated film "Se7en ", for which he earned a nomination for theBAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay , as well as several other films, including "8mm", "Sleepy Hollow" and many uncredited script rewrites.Biography
Early life
Walker was born in
Altoona, Pennsylvania , though some time during his childhood, he moved toMechanicsburg, Pennsylvania , where he was raised. He attended the Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School until his graduation in 1982. Walker soon enrolled inPenn State University to pursue a career infilm production . He graduated from Penn State in 1986, with aBachelor of Arts in film and video. [http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/Walker__Andrew_Kevin.html Andrew Kevin Walker ] ]Film career
Shortly after completing his education, he moved to
New York City and began a career in retail atTower Records . During that time, he worked on several projects, but Walker was unable to find much success until 1991, when he completed the script for "Se7en". Walker decided to move toLos Angeles to sell his screenplay. There, he personally contacted screenwriterDavid Koepp , who showed the script to executives atNew Line Cinema , who ended up purchasing the rights to it. The film, however, took nearly three years to begin production. While the project was ongoing, Walker found other work as a screenwriter, including a short stint withHBO 'stelevision series "Tales From the Crypt", as well as writing two other films, "Brainscan " (1994) and the novel adaptation "Hideaway " (1995)."Se7en" began production between his two other films, headed by
David Fincher as the director and starringMorgan Freeman ,Brad Pitt andKevin Spacey . At one point during production — what would later become a recurring theme throughout Walker's career, the studio proposed several changes, deeming it too dark for its target audience; both Fincher and Freeman backed Walker's original script, and it eventually went unchanged. The film was met with critical acclaim and enormous box office success, earning $327,311,859 worldwide. [ [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1066164-seven/ Seven - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes ] ] [ [http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=seven.htm Seven (1995) ] ] It would allow Walker to make a name for himself in the movie industry, as well as make stars of then-relatively unknown actors Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey.However, Walker would not earn another film credit to his name for another four years, though he penned several uncredited rewrites during this period, including "The Game" (on which he again worked with David Fincher) and
Paul W.S. Anderson 's "Event Horizon". [ [http://www.ambidextrouspics.com/html/andrew_kevin_walker.html God of Andrew Kevin Walker writer of Se7en ] ] In 1999, Walker's "8MM" finally saw the light of day, having been sold by him for a reported $1.25 million. Once again, the film's production encountered concerns regarding the dark subject matter, and the studio asked Walker to lighten the film's tone. WithJoel Schumacher as director, Walker felt a rewrite would no longer be needed. But as it turned out, Schumacher supported the studio and made changes of his own, leading to a much-publicized fallout between the two, with Walker virtually disowning the film and walking away from the set. He refused to even watch the film, which became a critical and box-office disaster. [http://movies.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=264953 Andrew Kevin Walker - Biography - MSN Movies ] ]Walker found other success in 1999, as he penned an uncredited rewrites to the critical hits "
Stir of Echoes " and "Fight Club", now considered a cult classic. Walker's adaptation ofWashington Irving 'sshort story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " also wrapped up production as "Sleepy Hollow", directed byTim Burton . While Burton admired Walker's original script, he hired the famed playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriterTom Stoppard to tone down the violence. The film, starringJohnny Depp , was still a box office and critical success. [ [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sleepy_hollow/ Sleepy Hollow - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes ] ]Since the mid-1990s, Walker wrote several screenplays that were never greenlit or have yet to go into production, such as a script for a movie starring the superhero
Silver Surfer , a version of "X-Men" (2000; his script was written in 1994 [ [http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/x-men_walker3.html "X-Men," by Andrew Kevin Walker ] ] ), and a film tentatively titled "Batman vs. Superman". The latter film was set to go into production, butWarner Bros. opted to revive their franchises separately, and so the script was shelved. [cite book |last=Darius |first= Julian |title=Batman Begins and the Comics |publisher=Lulu Press |year=2005 |isbn=1-4116-4543-X |pages=pp. 6] After the announcement and subsequent successes of "Batman Begins " and "Superman Returns ", the film seemed to be shelved permanently, thoughWolfgang Petersen , who was due to direct the feature, has continued to express his interest in the project. [ [http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_ezine&task=read&page=1&category=1&article=384 IESB.net - Movie News, Reviews, Interviews and More! - Wolfgang Peterson Will Do Batman Vs. Superman! ] ]Other projects
Walker also wrote two shorts for the
BMW Films series "The Hire ", starringClive Owen : "Ambush", directed byJohn Frankenheimer , and "The Follow", byKar Wai Wong .Most recently, Walker wrote the screenplay for "The Wolf Man", a remake of the
Universal Studios classic. The remake, which is directed byJoe Johnston and starsBenicio del Toro in the title role, is aimed for a 2009 release.Appearances in film
Walker is known for making short cameos in films for which he served as a writer. In "Panic Room", he appears as a sleepy neighbor; in "Fight Club", three detectives are named, respectively, Andrew, Kevin and Walker; and in "Se7en", he is the corpse near the very beginning of the movie. In the episode "
My Maserati Does 185 " of the HBO series Entourage, it is said that Andrew Kevin Walker wrote the script for anAquaman movie.References
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