James V Hart
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Biography
American producer of independent low-budget features turned screenwriter of Hollywood blockbusters. After working on the fringes of the industry for some years and then surviving the frustrations of one development deal after another, James V. Hart finally burst upon the scene with two back-to-back screenplays for two titans of contemporary American filmmaking--Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola. With the one-two punch of "Hook" (1991) and "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992), he was catapulted to the A-list of Hollywood screenwriters. Hart points to his family as "The Story Department"; his young son gave him the idea for the central conceit of "Hook": "What if Peter Pan grew up?" He followed as one of the contributors of "Muppet Treasure Island" (1996) and with Michael Goldenberg adapted Carl Sagan's sci-fi novel "Contact" (1997).
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Life Events
1970
Met with Coppola who advised him to keep making movies
1970
Drove from Texas to San Francisco with a filmmaker friend on the chance of meeting Francis Ford Coppola
1977
Wrote his first "Dracula" adaptation
1977
Produced "Assault on Paradise/Maniac/Ransom", a crime thriller starring Oliver Reed
1984
First produced screenplay, "Gimme an 'F'", a comedy about a spastic cheerleading squad
1991
First produced screenplay for a major motion picture, Steven Spielberg's "Hook" (also executive produced with Dodi Fayed)
1992
Wrote and co-produced Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula"
1997
Co-scripted "Contact", adapted from the Carl Sagan novel
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