Ken Nolan is an American screenwriter and novelist best known for adapting the 2001 biographical war film Black Hawk Down from the non-fiction book of the same name.
10 Facts About Ken Nolan
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Ken Nolan applied twice to the UCLA Film School but was turned down both times.
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Ken Nolan ultimately attended the University of Oregon, earning an English degree.
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Ken Nolan moved to Los Angeles, California in the early 1990s to pursue a career as a screenwriter, working at Richard Dreyfuss' company using The Screenwriter's Workbook by Syd Field as a guide.
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Ken Nolan wrote several screenplays before breaking through in 1994, writing a series of spec scripts for Warner Bros.
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Ken Nolan's first produced screenplay was an adaptation of Mark Bowden's 1999 non-fiction book Black Hawk Down, which was ultimately made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name by Ridley Scott.
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Ken Nolan initially wrote a 60-page treatment and writing a total of eight drafts before Scott was attached to the project by producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
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Ken Nolan was one of several writers who contributed to the final shooting script, though he was the only one to receive on-screen credit.
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Ken Nolan replaced Ehren Kruger as the writer of the Transformers film series, penning the latest entry Transformers: The Last Knight and the as-yet untitled spin-off film.
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Ken Nolan wrote Only the Brave, a 2017 drama film which, like Black Hawk Down, is a work of historical fiction based on true events.