1. Roger Roberts Avary was born on August 23,1965 and is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and producer.
19 Facts About Roger Avary
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Roger Avary is best known for his work with Quentin Tarantino on the script for Pulp Fiction, for which they won Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards.
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In 2022, Roger Avary reunited with Tarantino to launch a podcast called The Video Archives Podcast.
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Roger Roberts Avary was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, in Canada on August 23,1965, to a Brazilian-raised father, who worked as a mining engineer, and a German mother, who worked as a physical therapist.
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In 1993 Roger Avary directed his feature film debut with Killing Zoe.
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In 1995 Roger Avary wrote and directed the science fiction film Mr Stitch for Syfy, then The Sci-Fi Channel.
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In 2002, Roger Avary directed the film adaptation for The Rules of Attraction, based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel, which he executive produced.
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Roger Avary became a spokesperson for Final Cut Pro product, appearing in Apple print and web ads worldwide.
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In 2006, Roger Avary wrote a screenplay adaptation to the Konami video game, Silent Hill, with French director and friend, Christophe Gans, and Killing Zoe producer Samuel Hadida.
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In September 2017 Roger Avary directed his own screenplay, Lucky Day, a semi-sequel of Killing Zoe.
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Roger Avary was fired after disagreements over the creative direction with executive producer Jon Peters.
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Roger Avary had originally intended upon directing his script of Beowulf himself as a live action film, to be shot in Iceland with a $10 million budget.
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In 2006, French director Alexandre Aja was set to direct a feature film adaptation of the Black Hole comics, with Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary attached to adapt the screenplay.
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Roger Avary was attached to write and direct a Castle Wolfenstein film adaptation both in 2007 and 2012.
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Also in 2012, Roger Avary was planning to reteam with author Bret Easton Ellis to direct an adaptation of his novel Lunar Park, with financing from Wild Bunch.
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Roger Avary has written an as-yet unproduced script based on The Devil Soldier by Caleb Carr, which was in development with Antoine Fuqua directing and Mark Burman producing.
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On January 13,2008, Roger Avary was arrested under suspicion of manslaughter and DUI, following a car crash in Ojai, California, in which his passenger, Andreas Zini, was killed.
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Roger Avary changed his plea to guilty on August 18,2009.
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However, after making several tweets about the conditions of his stay on Twitter, Roger Avary was sent to Ventura County Jail to serve out the remainder of his term.