Don Murphy

All you want to know about Don Murphy

Don Murphy
Born 1965
New York
Residence California
Nationality United States
Education USC School of Cinema-Television (CNTV)
Alma mater Georgetown University
Occupation Film Producer
Home town Hicksville, New York
Known for Co-producer, Natural Born Killers (1994)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Transformers (2007)
Website
http://www.donmurphy.net/board
Notes

Don Murphy (born 1965) is an American film producer who produced the film Natural Born Killers .

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Personal background and education

Born in 1965, Murphy grew up in Hicksville, New York, was educated at Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York, and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) from the Business School of Georgetown University, in Washington D.C.[1] In the 1980s, during the summer, he worked as a copywriter at Diener Hauser Bates, a "now defunct" advertising company then representing "over 70% of the film studios," on ad campaigns for such films as Blow Out (1981), Under the Rainbow (1981) and Ragtime (1981).[1]

He is married to Susan Montford, a film director, film producer, and screenwriter with whom he frequently collaborates.[1]

Career

Murphy founded Jane & Don Productions, Inc. with Jane Hamsher, a Stark graduate-student colleague.[1] Their first project was optioning then-unknown Quentin Tarantino's original screenplay for Natural Born Killers and co-producing that 1994 satirical crime film, which was directed by Oliver Stone, credited also as one of the screenwriters on the final film version (considerably changed from the original script by Tarantino, who removed his name from the film's credits),[2] an experience about which Hamsher published a controversial memoir, entitled Killer Instinct in 1997.[3][4] According to a book review by Patrick Goldstein published in the Los Angeles Times in September 1997, "If nothing else, the book offers an intriguing insight into Hollywood power politics."[5] Murphy and Hamsher also co-produced Apt Pupil, Permanent Midnight, and From Hell.[6]

In 1998, he formed his own company, Angry Films,[1] which has produced several films, beginning with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) and including: Shoot 'em Up (2007), starring Clive Owen; While She Was Out, starring Kim Basinger (2008); and Torso (2009), directed by David Fincher.[6] Murphy is one of the originating producers of the 2007 Transformers live action film.[7] In 2005 and 2007 Variety reported that Angry Films was also producing an adaptation of We3, a Vertigo Comics miniseries, for New Line Cinema[8]; a feature-film adaptation of Second Sight, the 2000–2001 BBC miniseries starring Clive Owen, for Universal Studios[9]; and Gemini Man, for Walt Disney Company.[10]

Filmography

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Don Murphy (2008). "Human Stuff: Secret Biography". DonMurphy.net. Angry Films (Don Murphy). Retrieved on 2008-11-22.
  2. ^ Tarantino, Quentin (2000). Natural Born Killers: The Original Screenplay, New York: Grove Press. ISBN 9780802134486, http://books.google.com/books?id=jXH5ttbMLxYC&dq=Natural+Born+Killers&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0. Retrieved on 2008-11-18.  (Google Books preview.)
  3. ^ Dana Kennedy. "Book Review: Killer Instinct" (Web), Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2008-11-17. "Who is Jane Hamsher and more important, what was she thinking? The author of Killer Instinct is one half of the team that produced Oliver Stone's controversial 1994 film Natural Born Killers, and she has decided to do something completely nuts: tell the truth about the madness surrounding the making of the movie. In detailing the drinking, drugging, back stabbing, double-crossing, and bullying by many of the parties involved, she burns at least two major bridges: the mercurial but powerful Stone ('an imposing, intimidating sonofabitch') and perennial Hollywood It Boy Quentin Tarantino ('a geek'), who wrote the original draft of Natural Born Killers." 
  4. ^ Marvin Lager (1999-09-20). "Ferlauto v. Hamsher (1999) 74 CA4th 1394". Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Retrieved on 2007-01-22. "[Thomas Ferlauto] sued respondents, Jane Hamsher, Don Murphy, Jane and Don Productions, Inc., and Broadway Books, for defamation and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. ... The book discussed, in part, litigation that resulted when Rand Vossler, briefly slotted to be the director of the movie, sued Hamsher and Murphy for fraud after they asked him to step aside. Vossler was represented by Attorney Ferlauto, and a confidential settlement agreement was ultimately reached. In her book, Hamsher made critical remarks about the litigation and about the attorney for Vossler, though the name of the attorney was never mentioned. {Page 74 Cal.App.4th 1398}...."
  5. ^ Patrick Goldstein (1997-09-10). "A 'Killer' Memoir" (Print and Web), Los Angeles Times (archive), Los Angeles Times, p. F-7. Retrieved on 2008-11-23.  (Also rpt. by Angry Films (Don Murphy) in "Human Stuff" section at DonMurphy.net.)
  6. ^ a b "Don Murphy: Filmography". Moviefone. Retrieved on 2008-11-21.
  7. ^ Anne Thompson (2006-01-13). "For Producer Murphy, 'no' Is Not an Answer" (Web), Hollywood Reporter, Nielsen Business Media. Retrieved on 2008-05-23. 
  8. ^ Ben Fritz; Claude Brodesser (2005-06-07). "New Line Takes On 'We3' Killer Cuties", Variety, Reed Elsevier. Retrieved on 2007-03-23. "Don Murphy is producing the pic with his AngryFilms [sic] shingle along with Susan Montford and Rick Benattar." 
  9. ^ Dianne Garrett (2007-04-29). "Universal Eyes Sight", Variety, Reed Elsevier. Retrieved on 2007-09-17. "Don Murphy is producing the pic with his AngryFilms [sic] shingle along with Susan Montford and Rick Benattar." 
  10. ^ Peter Gilstrap (2007-05-06). "Bruckheimer Finds His Gemini Man", Variety, Reed Elsevier. Retrieved on 2007-09-17. "Don Murphy is producing the pic with his AngryFilms [sic] shingle along with Jerry Bruckheimer." 

References

External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Murphy"

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