William Monahan is a novelist and Academy Award-winning American
screenwriter. Monahan went to work in Hollywood in 1998, when Warner
Bros. bought the film rights to Light House: A Trifle, which had not
yet been published, and contracted him to adapt it to the screen for
director Gore Verbinski. In 2001, 20th Century Fox bought Monahan's
spec script about the Barbary Wars called Tripoli, with Ridley Scott,
who was to become Monahan's primary collaborator, attached to direct.
Monahan, immediately successful as a screenwriter, has since worked
with Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, among other filmmakers. His
first produced screenplay, Kingdom of Heaven was made into a film by
Ridley Scott and released in theaters in 2005. His second produced
screenplay was The Departed, a film which earned him a WGA award and
an Academy award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Monahan prefers that
screenplays should be written by one writer rather than a
collaboration of multiple screenwriters writing competing drafts. Thus
far he has followed his scripts through production, and is one of very
few sole credit writers in the film business.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1791:
The Polish Constitution of May 3, one of the earliest codified
national constitutions in the world, was adopted by the Sejm.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_May_3%2C_1791)
1808:
The Swedish fortress Sveaborg was lost to Russia during the Finnish
War.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomenlinna)
1939:
Subhash Chandra Bose formed the Forward Bloc of the Indian National
Congress.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Forward_Bloc)
1945:
World War II: German ocean liner Cap Arcona, left to float
defencelessly in the Bay of Lübeck with thousands of prisoners from
various concentration camps on board, was attacked and sunk by RAF
Typhoons.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_Arcona)
1947:
A new Constitution of Japan went into effect.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Japan)
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Wikiquote of the day:
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and
sing. What a mistake that would be. -- Pete Seeger
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger)