Ben Ripley

Ben Ripley
Born Lawrenceville, New Jersey[1]
Occupation Screenwriter
Known for Source Code

Ben Ripley is an American screenwriter best known for writing the science-fiction thriller Source Code[2] directed by Duncan Jones.[3][4] Ripley is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Southern California's USC School of Cinema-Television.

History

Ripley sold his spec script for Source Code in 2007 to Universal Studios. It was ranked as one of the top unproduced screenplays in the annual Hollywood black list.[5] In an interview with the Writers Guild of America, Ripley talked about his script and the uncertainty over its production:

Yeah, it was agony. And I wrote it on spec. I wasn't certain it would ever see the light of day. One thing that kept me going though was that I had a suspicion that if I got this right, it could really open a new level for my writing career. At that point, I'd spent about four years doing studio rewrites on horror movies that were never getting made. I knew that if I showed up with another spec script, I'd have to show up with something very different that took chances. That motivated me to keep going until it seemed right.[6]

Screenplays

References

  1. ↑ http://www.movieslug.com/actors/1024/ben-ripley.html
  2. ↑ Fernandez, Jay A. (16 December 2010). "Moon' Director Duncan Jones Returns to SXSW With 'Source Code". The Hollywood Reporter.
  3. ↑ http://www.wired.com/underwire/tag/ben-ripley/ Parallel Universes and Corpse Brains: Source Code Takes Science on a Trip
  4. ↑ http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=30413 Ben Ripley Writing The Seventh Day
  5. ↑ Sciretta, Peter. "The Hottest Unproduced Screenplays of 2007". Slash film. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  6. ↑ Faye, Denis. "Practice Makes Perfect". Writers Guild of America. Writers Guild of America. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  7. ↑ http://movies.nytimes.com/person/393155/Ben-Ripley/filmography The New York Times - Ben Ripley Biography

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