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 Alexander Stuart has worked with Angelina Jolie, Jodie Foster, Kiefer Sutherland and Danny Boyle - on movies including Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson; Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance, starring Theresa Russell, Gary Busey and Tony Curtis; and Tim Roth's film of Stuart's acclaimed novel, The War Zone, starring Tilda Swinton, Lara Belmont, Freddie Cunliffe and Ray Winstone.Stuart has worked with high profile producers such as Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Bill Mechanic, Paul Webster and Nick Wechsler, at studios including Warner Bros, Paramount, Universal, Industry Entertainment, Film4 and numerous independents.His screenplays include adaptations of Michael Faber's Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson; Whiteout, starring Kate Beckinsale; Bill Buford's Among The Thugs, for Kiefer Sutherland; Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth; Keith Scribner's The GoodLife and Agatha Christie's Ordeal By Innocence, starring Donald Sutherland and Faye Dunaway.Stuart's non-fiction book about Florida, Life On Mars, became a two-hour television documentary, called The End of America.His novels, non-fiction and children's books have been published in eight languages around the world. Stuart lives in California, is a US citizen, a proud WGAWest member, a devoted father and a British-born Buddhist.
Bio:
Alexander Stuart has worked with Angelina Jolie, Jodie Foster, Kiefer Sutherland and Danny Boyle - on movies including Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson; Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance, starring Theresa Russell, Gary Busey and Tony Curtis; and Tim Roth's film of Stuart's acclaimed novel, The War Zone, starring Tilda Swinton, Lara Belmont, Freddie Cunliffe and Ray Winstone.Stuart has worked with high profile producers such as Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Bill Mechanic, Paul Webster and Nick Wechsler, at studios including Warner Bros, Paramount, Universal, Industry Entertainment, Film4 and numerous independents.His screenplays include adaptations of Michael Faber's Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson; Whiteout, starring Kate Beckinsale; Bill Buford's Among The Thugs, for Kiefer Sutherland; Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth; Keith Scribner's The GoodLife and Agatha Christie's Ordeal By Innocence, starring Donald Sutherland and Faye Dunaway.Stuart's non-fiction book about Florida, Life On Mars, became a two-hour television documentary, called The End of America.His novels, non-fiction and children's books have been published in eight languages around the world. Stuart lives in California, is a US citizen, a proud WGAWest member, a devoted father and a British-born Buddhist.
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Stuart's novel, The War Zone, was awarded the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel in 1989, only to have the award withdrawn before the prize giving ceremony amid controversy involving one dissenting judge.A newly updated and fully revised 20th Anniversary Edition of The War Zone (novel) was published in 2009, including both the original British and American opening chapters, an Afterword by Tim Roth and a Diary of the Making of the Film by Alexander Stuart.Sarah Radclyffe, one of the producers of The War Zone, previously co-produced his short film, The Man Who Shot Christmas, which featured Jim Broadbent as Santa Claus.At age seventeen was commissioned by BBC TV to write and direct a short film, The Hollow Moment, and invited by Films and Filming magazine in the UK to become a regular movie critic and feature writer.Three children, one deceased. One son, born 1983, died 1989. One son, born 2004, and one daughter, born 2009.For his first venture as a producer, he persuaded director Nicolas Roeg u003culu003cliwhom he had only met once, for a magazine interview - to see theu003c/liu003c/ulplay, Insignificance, that Stuart was trying to get the rights to. Roeg came on the play's last night, agreed to direct the movie, and helped Stuart set the project up with producer Jeremy Thomas.The War Zone novel is listed for its publication year, 1989, in The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone).Judge at the Sitges International Film Festival, Spain, 1995.On September 22 2006, Stuart was sworn in as an American Citizen.In 2007, he informally adopted the surname Chow-Stuart to celebrate the fusion of both family names in his children's surname.Helped his wife deliver their daughter at home in Los Angeles on New Year's Day 2009, before the midwife could arrive.Writing script of his novel "The War Zone" for Tim Roth to direct. Writing script based on book, "Among The Thugs", for Kiefer Sutherland to direct. (1996)Stuart wrote the first three drafts of Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin (2016), starring Scarlett Johansson. Penelope Cruz once performed a brief scene for him in the garden of the Chateau Marmont.Stuart taught graduate level screenwriting at the University of Miami for three years in the mid-1990s, during the period he was developing the films of The War Zone and Among The Thugs.Stuart wrote Agatha Christie's Ordeal By Innocence as a noir take on Christie, with Dartmouth in Devon substituting for foggy San Francisco. The original soundtrack by Pino Donaggio has now been released on CD under license from MGM. The production company, Canon, recut the film to minimize the noir elements, and replaced Donaggio's score with an intrusive piano jazz score by Dave Brubeck. |
| Name: |
Alexander Stuart |
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Writer,Producer (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
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IMDB |
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Writer,Producer |
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Writer,Producer |
| Last update: |
2024-07-03 02:02:20 |
| Birth place: |
1785 |
| Biography: |
Alexander Stuart has worked with Angelina Jolie, Jodie Foster, Kiefer Sutherland and Danny Boyle - on movies including Jonathan Glazer\'s Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson; Nicolas Roeg\'s Insignificance, starring Theresa Russell, Gary Buse |
| Trivia: |
Stuart's novel, The War Zone, was awarded the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel in 1989, only to have the award withdrawn before the prize giving ceremony amid controversy involving one dissenting judge.A newly updated and fully revised 20th Anniversary Edition of The War Zone (novel) was published in 2009, including both the original British and American opening chapters, an Afterword by Tim Roth and a Diary of the Making of the Film by Alexander Stuart.Sarah Radclyffe, one of the producers of The War Zone, previously co-produced his short film, The Man Who Shot Christmas, which featured Jim Broadbent as Santa Claus.At age seventeen was commissioned by BBC TV to write and direct a short film, The Hollow Moment, and invited by Films and Filming magazine in the UK to become a regular movie critic and feature writer.Three children, one deceased. One son, born 1983, died 1989. One son, born 2004, and one daughter, born 2009.For his first venture as a producer, he persuaded director Nicolas Roeg u003culu003cliwhom he had only met once, for a magazine interview - to see theu003c/liu003c/ulplay, Insignificance, that Stuart was trying to get the rights to. Roeg came on the play's last night, agreed to direct the movie, and helped Stuart set the project up with producer Jeremy Thomas.The War Zone novel is listed for its publication year, 1989, in The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone).Judge at the Sitges International Film Festival, Spain, 1995.On September 22 2006, Stuart was sworn in as an American Citizen.In 2007, he informally adopted the surname Chow-Stuart to celebrate the fusion of both family names in his children's surname.Helped his wife deliver their daughter at home in Los Angeles on New Year's Day 2009, before the midwife could arrive.Writing script of his novel "The War Zone" for Tim Roth to direct. Writing script based on book, "Among The Thugs", for Kiefer Sutherland to direct. (1996)Stuart wrote the first three drafts of Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin (2016), starring Scarlett Johansson. Penelope Cruz once performed a brief scene for him in the garden of the Chateau Marmont.Stuart taught graduate level screenwriting at the University of Miami for three years in the mid-1990s, during the period he was developing the films of The War Zone and Among The Thugs.Stuart wrote Agatha Christie's Ordeal By Innocence as a noir take on Christie, with Dartmouth in Devon substituting for foggy San Francisco. The original soundtrack by Pino Donaggio has now been released on CD under license from MGM. The production company, Canon, recut the film to minimize the noir elements, and replaced Donaggio's score with an intrusive piano jazz score by Dave Brubeck. |
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Once my son was diagnosed with cancer, I had this huge amount of pain and anger about how this could happen to the child I loved so much. And I definitely directed that into The War Zone. I wrote it differently than anything I've written. I would rush back to the house while he was in chemotherapy and just write for two hours. I almost felt as if I were channeling it. |
| Job title: |
Writer,Producer |
| Others works: |
Novelist. Books include "The War Zone" (1989, Doubleday), "Five And A Half Times Three" (1990, Hamish Hamilton, written with Ann Totterdell, about the death from cancer of their five-and-a-half-year-old son, Joe Buffalo), "Tribes& |
| Spouse: |
Charong Chow (1998 - present) (2 children) |
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