David Franzoni

David Franzoni grew up in Vermont, attended the University of Vermont where he studied geology and paleontology and was a partner in a commercial film company. After attending a semester of graduate school, David dropped out, went to Berlin where he bought a motorcycle. He traveled eastern and western Europe, Turkey and Cyprus before driving his bike throughout the Middle east, India, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula and finally to Australia from Singapore. While living in Baghdad, he bought a book called "Those About to Die", by Daniel P. Mannix. This book would eventually inspire his original script, "Gladiator".After David moved to Los Angeles he sold his first script which became the comedy "Jumpin' Jack Flash", (although his original, was not a comedy). David then spent two years in Paris and London working with Cesar winning director, Bob Swaim.Returning to Los Angeles, then adapted the best selling biography , "Citizen Cohn," for HBO, starring James Woods, for whi... [Details Intro]