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Template:Multiple issuesRoger Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian film and television producer, screenwriter and director in the American mass media industry. He worked on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, for which he and Quentin Tarantino were awarded the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards. He wrote the screenplays of Silent Hill and Beowulf. He also directed Killing Zoe and The Rules of Attraction.
Full Name
The Rocket Summer
Net Worth
$17 Million
Date Of Birth
August 23, 1965
Place Of Birth
Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
Height
6' (1.83 m)
Occupation
Motion picture/television screenwriter, director and producer
Frequently casts legendary porn star Ron Jeremy in bit parts.
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Wild, crazy, hyper-kinetic energy on film.
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Often shows silent films on TV in his films.
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As I was reading the serialized version of Sandman: The Doll's House, it was like having a third eye open in my forehead. Johnny Depp as Dream. Fairuza Balk as Death. I would subcontract Jan Svankmajer or the Brothers Quay (Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay) to animate the transitions from the dream realm into our own world, so as to simulate the graphic style of Dave McKean's covers. It would be a glorious and magnificent epic. A year and a half after my first meeting, I politely left the project, not wanting to be the guy who ruined the Sandman film adaptation. I simply couldn't imagine the Lord of Dreaming throwing a punch. Just because it looked like Batman (1989) at first glance didn't mean it was. But Jon Peters, the "savant" producer Warners had attached to the project couldn't be dissuaded. I moved on, a year and a half of my life gone to the ether. No more real to me now than the memory of a dream.
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[on Ron Perlman] Ron Perlman is a giving actor, with no pretensions. He's wonderful to work with, full of ideas, and a truly gifted actor. When he came onto the production of Mr. Stitch (1995) the set literally lit up. Working with him was one of the bright moments of my career, and I would work with him again in a hot second. This must sound like I'm going overboard, but Ron has such an elegant, wonderful and bright personality that I honestly don't think it's an exaggeration. I mean, how often can you say that you're a better person for having met someone?
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[on the detractors of The Rules of Attraction (2002)] It does not matter to me if you hate the movie. What matters to me is if you are ambivalent. Anybody can do "thumbs up, thumbs down". That's the real problem with film criticism today. It's been reduced to "I like it, I dislike it". Criticism should be more of an examination of exactly why a film makes you feel the way you feel.
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[on Quentin Tarantino doing his Top Gun (1986) speech in the film Sleep with Me (1994)] Important lesson learned. Intellectual properties can be taken from you if you put them in the air. Result is to never speak to anyone else ever again and withdraw from society. Keep few friends and speak to them rarely.
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[on the characters in The Rules of Attraction (2002) and them as people] Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You'd be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, "I love these characters".
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[on the film adaptations of Bret Easton Ellis books Less Than Zero (1987) and American Psycho (2000)] Those two movies have stripped away his literary devices, and the filmmakers are just trying to tell the story. If you strip away Bret's devices, you strip away his themes - they're part and parcel of each other.
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[on Pulp Fiction (1994) and all the inspiration and effect it had] In some ways, I think "Pulp Fiction" hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to "Pulp Fiction".
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[on Quentin Tarantino] I've realized that I can't hang out with him. I talk with him, and he just sucks stuff from me.
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Was originally going to direct RPM (1998), but backed out of the project after the script had been re-written countless times.
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Was originally set to write Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012) (having previously written Silent Hill (2006)) and had actually begun writing a draft when he was sent to jail for gross vehicular manslaughter and two felony counts of causing bodily injury while intoxicated. The film was then delayed until the studio hired Michael J. Bassett in Fall 2010 to write and direct.
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Is a vegetarian.
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Was attached to direct the film version of Neil Gaiman's novel "The Sandman" at one point.
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On Jan. 14, 2008, he was arrested in Ojai, CA, on charges of DUI (driving under the influence) and manslaughter after an automobile accident in which one person was killed.
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A direct descendant of pirate/marooner Henry "Long Ben" Avary.
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Wrote a script for a fifth "Phantasm" movie called "Phantasm's End". It came close to being made by series creator Don Coscarelli and starring Bruce Campbell. Finding the funding was the only issue.
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Wrote a script entitled "Pandemonium Reigns" which was never produced, but significant elements were later used to make Pulp Fiction (1994).
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Though Quentin Tarantino received credit, it was actually Avary who conceived the Top Gun (1986) gay reference speech that Tarantino used in Sleep with Me (1994).
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Met Quentin Tarantino at a video store called Video Archive where they both worked in the 1980s.
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
XIII: The Series
2012
TV Series executive producer - 13 episodes
Beowulf
2007
executive producer
Glitterati
2004
producer
The Rules of Attraction
2002
executive producer
The Last Man
2000
executive producer
Boogie Boy
1998
executive producer
Odd Jobs
1997
TV Movie producer
Mr. Stitch
1995
TV Movie executive producer
The Worm Turns
1983
Short producer
The Boys
1983
Short producer
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
XIII: The Series
2012
TV Series 3 episodes
Beowulf
2007
screenplay
Silent Hill
2006
written by
Glitterati
2004
The Rules of Attraction
2002
screenplay
RPM
1998
story - original script, uncredited
Odd Jobs
1997
TV Movie
Mr. Stitch
1995
TV Movie written by
Crying Freeman
1995
uncredited
Pulp Fiction
1994
stories by
Killing Zoe
1993
written by
True Romance
1993
uncredited
Reservoir Dogs
1992
background radio dialog
The Worm Turns
1983
Short writer
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Glitterati
2004
The Rules of Attraction
2002
Mr. Stitch
1995
TV Movie
Killing Zoe
1993
The Worm Turns
1983
Short
Cinematographer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Glitterati
2004
My Best Friend's Birthday
1987
The Boys
1983
Short
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Reservoir Dogs
1992
creator: Dog Eat Dog logo
Maximum Potential
1987
Video production assistant
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Standing Still
2005/II
Franklin Brauner
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Glitterati
2004
Editorial Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Rules of Attraction
2002
montage
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Rules of Attraction
2002
song wrangler
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Beowulf
2007
writer: "Olaf Drinking Song"
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Phantasm: Ravager
2016
special thanks
The Taking of Deborah Logan
2014
special thanks
Return to Zero
2014
very special thanks
John Dies at the End
2012
special thanks
36 pasos
2006
spiritual support
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
2001
Documentary special thanks
Phantasm IV: Oblivion
1998
special thanks
Full Tilt Boogie
1997
Documentary special thanks
Crying Freeman
1995
the producers wish to thank
True Romance
1993
very special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Silent hill: entre deux mondes
2009
Video documentary
Himself
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
2008
Video documentary short
Himself
Beasts of Burden Designing the Creatures of Beowulf
2008
Video documentary short
Himself
The Art of Beowulf
2008
Video documentary short
Himself
The Origins of Beowulf
2008
Video documentary short
Himself
Buzz: AT&T Original Documentaries
2007
TV Series documentary
Himself
Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'
2006
Video documentary
Himself
Anatomy of a Scene
2001
TV Series documentary
Himself
+ de cinéma
2001
TV Series documentary short
Himself
The 67th Annual Academy Awards
1995
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Best Original Screenplay
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1995
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Pulp Fiction (1994)
1995
BAFTA Film Award
BAFTA Awards
Best Screenplay - Original
Pulp Fiction (1994)
1995
CFCA Award
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Screenplay
Pulp Fiction (1994)
1995
DFWFCA Award
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
Best Screenplay
Pulp Fiction (1994)
1995
Independent Spirit Award
Independent Spirit Awards
Best Screenplay
Pulp Fiction (1994)
1995
NSFC Award
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Screenplay
Pulp Fiction (1994)
1994
BSFC Award
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Screenplay
Pulp Fiction (1994)
1994
LAFCA Award
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Screenplay
Pulp Fiction (1994)
1994
Best Film
Mystfest
Killing Zoe (1993)
1994
Critics Award
Mystfest
Killing Zoe (1993)
1994
NYFCC Award
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Screenplay
Pulp Fiction (1994)
1994
STFC Award
Society of Texas Film Critics Awards
Best Screenplay
Pulp Fiction (1994)
1992
LAFCA Award
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Screenplay
Unforgiven (1992)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2008
Saturn Award
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
