David Loughery


Biography

David Loughery is a motion picture screenwriter who specializes in psychologically-driven action films. Educated at The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Loughery found a fitting collaborator in director Joseph Ruben, who helmed the sci-fi fantasy "Dreamscape" in 1984 from Loughery's script and would go on to make three other films written or re-written by Loughery. Two of these, '87's "The Ste...

Biography

David Loughery is a motion picture screenwriter who specializes in psychologically-driven action films. Educated at The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Loughery found a fitting collaborator in director Joseph Ruben, who helmed the sci-fi fantasy "Dreamscape" in 1984 from Loughery's script and would go on to make three other films written or re-written by Loughery. Two of these, '87's "The Stepfather" and '93's "The Good Son," would contain themes of domestic unrest to which Loughery would later return in such later works as '08's "Lakeview Terrace" and '09's "Obsessed." Loughery collaborated with William Shatner on the Shatner-directed '89 film, "Star Trek: The Final Frontier." In the '90s, Loughery adapted a pair of classic tales for the big screen, '93's "The Three Musketeers" and the '95 Tom Sawyer adaptation, "Tom and Huck." In the '00s, Loughery stretched further by picking up executive producer credits for two of the films he wrote: "Lakeview Terrace" and "Obsessed"

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Dreamscape (1984) -- (Movie Clip) Cerebral Peeping Tom Ready for his first dream-linking experiment, overseen by scientists Novotny (Max von Sydow) and DeVries (Kate Capshaw), psychic-genius subject Alex (Dennis Quaid) has more success than expected connecting to steel-worker Hardy (Fred Waugh), the first big special effects scene, in Dreamscape, 1984.
Dreamscape (1984) -- (Movie Clip) Doctor Deep Freeze Ambivalent, playful and petulant psychically gifted genius Alex (Dennis Quaid) has been persuaded to take part in a dream research project, doesn’t mind admitting he’s more interested in fetching scientist Dr. DeVries (Kate Capshaw), in Dreamscape, 1984.
Dreamscape (1984) -- (Movie Clip) He Was An Authentic Genius Introducing principals via the pacey opening with Virginia Kiser running from a nuclear fireball, awakening Eddie Albert, Madison Mason checking on him, then Dennis Quaid in a photo, Max von Sydow as Dr. Novotny, Kate Capshaw as Dr. Devries, Christopher Plummer as Blair, then finally at the Los Alamitos track, in the popular sci-fi/thriller Dreamscape, 1984.
Dreamscape (1984) -- (Movie Clip) This Nuclear Madness An abrupt edit begins another nuclear-horror nightmare which again turns out to be in the mind of the widower president (Eddie Albert), comforted by his daughter (Kate Charleson) then receiving Christopher Plummer as mysterious government player Blair, whose motives not revealed, in Dreamscape, 1984.
Dreamscape (1984) -- (Movie Clip) With A Little Help From Science At the pub at the college where research scientist Novotny (Max von Sydow) has brought his gently-kidnapped genius former subject Alex (Dennis Quaid) to talk him into taking part in an experiment about dreaming, detailing the premise in the sci-fi hit Dreamscape, 1984.

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