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| William Monahan will be honored for his film writing at the Second Annual "Oscar Wilde: Honoring Irish Writing In Film", held at the Ebell Wilshire in Los Angeles on February 22, 2007. Other honorees include fellow film writer Terry George and famed musican Van Morrison. The event is intiatied by the US-Ireland Alliance, a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC. | William Monahan will be honored for his film writing at the Second Annual "Oscar Wilde: Honoring Irish Writing In Film", held at the Ebell Wilshire in Los Angeles on February 22, 2007. Other honorees include fellow film writer Terry George and famed musican Van Morrison. The event is intiatied by the US-Ireland Alliance, a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC. | ||
| Monahan currently lives in Rockport, |
Monahan currently lives in Rockport, Massachusetts. | ||
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William Monahan (born November 3 1960, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American screenwriter.
Monahan worked as an editor at now-defunct Spy magazine. He became better-known after winning the Pushcart Prize for short fiction. His first novel was Light House, a trifle.
In 2001, his screenplay Tripoli was optioned on spec by 20th Century Fox, and Ridley Scott was attached as director. While Tripoli was still in production, Scott and Monahan worked together on Kingdom of Heaven, which was released in 2005. Tripoli is scheduled for a 2007 release.
There have been rumors that Scott and Monahan will also be teaming on the movie version of the Cormac McCarthy novel Blood Meridian, for Paramount Pictures. The rumors were published in the Hollywood Reporter, and on (), the official website of The Cormac McCarthy Appreciation Society.
Monahan also wrote the script for The Departed, a Martin Scorsese film adaptation of the Chinese crime drama, Infernal Affairs (released in October 2006). The film stars Jack Nicholson, Alec Baldwin, Vera Farmiga, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg.
William Monahan co-wrote (with John Sayles) the script for Jurassic Park IV, film due out in 2008. He also wrote the adaptation of the Louis Begley novel, Wartime Lies.
William Monahan will be honored for his film writing at the Second Annual "Oscar Wilde: Honoring Irish Writing In Film", held at the Ebell Wilshire in Los Angeles on February 22, 2007. Other honorees include fellow film writer Terry George and famed musican Van Morrison. The event is intiatied by the US-Ireland Alliance, a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC.
Monahan currently lives in Rockport, Massachusetts.
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