David Friedman, known professionally as David Benioff, is an American writer, director and producer.
20 Facts About David Benioff
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David Benioff wrote 25th Hour, Troy, City of Thieves and co-wrote X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
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David Benioff is the son of Barbara and Stephen Friedman, a former head of Goldman Sachs.
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David Benioff became interested in an academic career and went to Trinity College Dublin in 1995, for a one-year program to study Irish literature.
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David Benioff wrote a thesis on Samuel Beckett at Trinity College, but decided against a career in academia.
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David Benioff then applied to join the University of California, Irvine's creative writing program after reading The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing there in 1999.
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David Benioff explained that he did this to avoid confusion with other writers named David.
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David Benioff spent two years writing his first published novel, The 25th Hour, originally titled Fireman Down, and completed the book as his thesis for his master's degree at Irvine.
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David Benioff was asked to adapt the book into a screenplay after Tobey Maguire read a preliminary trade copy and became interested in making a film of the book.
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In 2004 David Benioff published a collection of short stories, When the Nines Roll Over.
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David Benioff drafted a screenplay of the mythological epic Troy, for which Warner Bros.
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David Benioff wrote the script for the psychological thriller Stay, directed by Marc Forster and starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts.
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David Benioff was hired in 2004 to write the screenplay for the X-Men spin-off X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
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David Benioff based his script on Barry Windsor-Smith's "Weapon X" story, Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's 1982 limited series on the character, as well as the 2001 limited series Origin.
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David Benioff had aimed for a "darker and a bit more brutal" story, writing it with an R rating in mind, but acknowledged the film's final tone would rest with the producers and director.
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In October 2007, Universal Pictures hired Benioff to write an adapted screenplay of the Charles R Cross biography of Kurt Cobain, but the screenplay was not used.
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On July 19,2017, David Benioff announced that he and Weiss would produce another HBO series, Confederate, after the final season of Game of Thrones.
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David Benioff was given the credit for season 3 episode 3, "Walk of Punishment", while Weiss was credited with season 4 episode 1, "Two Swords".
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On September 30,2006, David Benioff married actress Amanda Peet in a traditional Jewish ceremony in New York City.
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David Benioff is a second cousin of software entrepreneur Marc Benioff.