Jane Goldman wrote the script for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, a 2016 film adaption of the novel, for Tim Burton.
18 Facts About Jane Goldman
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Jane Goldman has written the books Dreamworld and The X-Files Book of the Unexplained, and presented her own TV series on the paranormal, Jane Goldman Investigates, on the channel Living, in 2003 and 2004.
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Jane Goldman was raised in a liberal, middle-class family in north London, the only child of a Jewish father and a Buddhist mother.
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Jane Goldman attended the King Alfred School, an independent school in Hampstead, until the age of 15 before moving to the United States to follow Boy George on tour.
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Jane Goldman wrote books: Thirteen-Something, Streetsmarts: A Teenager's Safety Guide, Sussed and Streetwise, the two-volume best-selling series The X-Files Book of the Unexplained, her first and only novel Dreamworld, and Do the Right Thing.
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Jane Goldman Investigates researched the paranormal and was transmitted by channel Living between 2003 and 2004.
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Jane Goldman is in the production teams of a number of TV shows, such as The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
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Jane Goldman made the jump to screenwriting, and was part of the writing team for David Baddiel's short-lived sitcom Baddiel's Syndrome, in 2001.
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Jane Goldman continued to work in adaptations, and was a co-writer with Vaughn and Peter Straughan for the 2011 drama-thriller The Debt, which was based on the 2007 Israeli film HaHov and directed by John Madden.
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Jane Goldman adapted for Hammer The Woman in Black, based on Susan Hill's horror novel.
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Jane Goldman is credited on X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to First Class, as writing the story with Matthew Vaughn and Simon Kinberg.
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Jane Goldman wrote the script for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an adaptation of the Ransom Riggs novel of the same name, which was directed by Tim Burton.
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Jane Goldman co-wrote the 2020 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Gothic romance Rebecca, directed by Ben Wheatley.
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Jane Goldman is attached to various upcoming projects, including Nonplayer, an adaptation of the sci-fi comic book by Nate Simpson for Warner Bros.
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On 6 December 2017, it was announced Jane Goldman would write a screenplay for Disney's live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid with Rob Marshall being eyed to direct.
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In May 2017, HBO announced Jane Goldman was one of four writers working on a potential pilot for a Game of Thrones spin-off.
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In June 2018, it was confirmed that Jane Goldman's pilot had been greenlit by HBO, and would focus on "the world's descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour", thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones.
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Alongside her husband, broadcaster Jonathan Ross, Jane Goldman appeared as a character in Neil Gaiman's short story The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch in 1996.