David Self was born in Texas City, Texas on January 8,1970.
23 Facts About David Self
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David Self was raised in Danvers, Massachusetts, where he graduated from St John's Preparatory School.
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David Self received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in English literature from Stanford University.
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David Self moved to Los Angeles, California, after graduation; he had no contacts and got an entry-level job at Walt Disney Pictures in 1994.
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David Self's first script was a spec script titled Dawn's Early Light, a thriller about a terrorist attack on the White House.
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David Self's first commissioned script was Firestorm, a dramatic film script based on the documentary film Fires of Kuwait.
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David Self began writing the script in the spring of 1997.
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David Self worked closely with director Lawrence Kasdan on the script.
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Pressfield was the first writer chosen to adapt the novel, but David Self was brought in to make major changes and finish it.
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Spielberg then asked David Self to write his remake of the 1963 film, The Haunting.
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David Self was hired in July 2000 to adapt the DC Comics graphic novel by writer Max Allan Collins and illustrator Richard Piers Rayner.
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David Self's script received positive attention, and Universal Studios hired him to do a rewrite of Tony Gilroy's screenplay for The Bourne Identity.
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David Self then pitched The Wing, a World War I fighter-pilot picture, to Universal.
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In 2005, David Self pitched an untitled science fiction series to the Fox Network.
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In 2006, David Self was attached to two separate screenplays for films based on the superheroes Deathlok and Captain America.
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David Self wrote an early draft based on another superhero, Namor.
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In 2007, David Self did a major rewrite of Andrew Kevin Walker's script for the werewolf movie, The Wolfman.
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David Self added extensive characterization, built up the relationship between father and son, and added more than 17 pages of dialogue and action at the behest of director Joe Johnston.
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Johnston ordered David Self to do a second rewrite just four weeks before shooting was to begin.
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David Self helped contribute additional rewrites during five weeks of reshooting in the spring of 2009.
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David Self was ultimately replaced by Nick Schenk, Joshua Zetumer and James Vanderbilt.
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David Self worked in 2012 on a film adaptation of the video game series God of War.
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David Self wrote a first draft of a script, but the screenwriting duties were then given to Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan.