Jeffrey David Boam was an American screenwriter and film producer.
46 Facts About Jeffrey Boam
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Jeffrey Boam is known for writing the screenplays for The Dead Zone, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Innerspace, The Lost Boys, and Lethal Weapon 2 and 3.
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Jeffrey Boam was educated at Sacramento State College and UCLA.
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Jeffrey Boam died of heart failure on January 24,2000, at age 53.
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Jeffrey Boam grew up in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and his family moved to Sacramento, California, when he was 11.
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Jeffrey Boam developed a taste for action films by watching World War II film on television as a child.
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Jeffrey Boam entered graduate school at UCLA film school, hoping to start a career in directing.
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Jeffrey Boam couldn't afford to pay for his own film, processing, and equipment.
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Jeffrey Boam took an advanced screenwriting class taught by William Froug.
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Jeffrey Boam decided to "target" Froug, hoping to impress the writing teacher into accepting him to be a directed studies student.
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Jeffrey Boam was impressed by Froug's success, and wanted one-on-one help.
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Jeffrey Boam graduated from UCLA in 1973, with a Master of Fine Arts degree.
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Jeffrey Boam got a job as a film booker for Paramount Pictures, where he kept track of film prints and made sure the movies were distributed to the correct theaters.
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Jeffrey Boam got a flurry of meetings with film studio executives and producers, eventually meeting producer Tony Bill.
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Jeffrey Boam was asked to rewrite the script, and he quit his job at Fox to work with Grosbard.
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Jeffrey Boam received writing credit for the film, along with Bunker and Alvin Sargent.
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Jeffrey Boam developed a script with director Stanley Donen, who left the project before the film reached production at Lorimar.
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Jeffrey Boam eventually closed its film division after a series of box office failures, and soon after, producer Dino de Laurentiis bought the rights to the novel.
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Jeffrey Boam initially disliked Boam's screenplay and asked King to adapt his own novel.
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Jeffrey Boam abandoned King's parallel story structure for The Dead Zone's screenplay, turning the plot into separate episodes.
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Jeffrey Boam said that he enjoyed writing character development for Smith, having him struggle with the responsibility of his psychic abilities, and ultimately give up his life for the greater good.
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Jeffrey Boam submitted the final draft of the screenplay on November 8,1982.
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Jeffrey Boam was frequently asked to rewrite and polish scripts for "high concept" films with commercial potential.
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Jeffrey Boam was able to pick and choose the projects he wanted to work on, and was able to decide on the rewrite he was offered.
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Jeffrey Boam's contract allowed for the possibility of producing and directing projects.
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Jeffrey Boam's first producing project was for a science-fiction comedy called Space Case, about a Los Angeles detective who specializes in locating people abducted by aliens.
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Jeffrey Boam was requested by director Joel Schumacher to rewrite the screenplay, hoping to "sex up the plot and up the ante on laughs and the violent disposal of vamps".
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Chase and his business partner Bruce Bodner hired Jeffrey Boam to adapt the book for film.
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Jeffrey Boam is paired with Roger Murtaugh, a veteran detective with a traditional home-life.
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Jeffrey Boam was hired to make some changes on the script, after the producers found parts of it too grim.
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Jeffrey Boam was hired again, this time to completely rewrite the sequel.
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Jeffrey Boam gained widespread notice for writing the screenplays for Lethal Weapon 2 and later for Lethal Weapon 3.
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Jeffrey Boam was crediteded somewhat unusually for Lethal Weopon 3; He is credited twice in the 'screenplay by' credits.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the third film in the popular Indiana Jones series, went through a flimsy scripting process before Jeffrey Boam was hired to write a draft.
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Spielberg suggested that Jeffrey Boam write the next draft, and Lucas agreed to it.
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Spielberg liked the story outline presented by Lucas and Jeffrey Boam, but wanted a first draft before making a decision to move forward.
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Jeffrey Boam was planning direct the film Rain Man, but an Indiana Jones project would take precedence.
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Jeffrey Boam incorporated this into the script, with Indiana's reaction to learning that he and his father slept with the same woman defused through humor.
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Jeffrey Boam, who was raised Catholic, used many religious themes and metaphors in his script for the film.
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Jeffrey Boam said that this scene is a metaphor for "the one true God vs false gods".
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Jeffrey Boam told EON Magazine in 1996 that he did not enjoy the directing experience, finding the work days too long and labor-intensive.
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The studio restarted the film with Simon Wincer as director, who had Jeffrey Boam make changes to the original script, including a decision to keep the screenplay close in style and tone to the source material.
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Jeffrey Boam worked on screenplay drafts for a feature-length movie based on the DC Comics World War II hero Sgt.
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Jeffrey Boam told The New York Times that he had no problem writing a contrived plot in service of character interactions.
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Jeffrey Boam rarely outlined a script, preferring to finish a story in his head, and then write the draft.
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Jeffrey Boam lived in the San Fernando Valley with his wife, Paula, a photographer and daughter of a Paramount Pictures vice president.