Steve Kloves wrote and directed the 1989 film The Fabulous Baker Boys and is mainly known for his adaptations of novels, especially for all but one of the Harry Potter films and for Wonder Boys, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
10 Facts About Steve Kloves
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Steve Kloves, born in Austin, Texas, grew up in Sunnyvale, California, where he graduated from Fremont High School.
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Steve Kloves attended the University of California, Los Angeles but dropped out when he was not admitted into the film school in his third year.
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Steve Kloves wrote The Fabulous Baker Boys and intended it to be his directorial debut.
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Steve Kloves was offered the chance to direct but he declined, preferring to direct only his own original work.
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Steve Kloves's screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award after the film's release in 2000.
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Steve Kloves went on to write the screenplays for the first four films in the series.
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In 2011, Steve Kloves was attached to work on a film adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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Since 2016, Steve Kloves produced the Fantastic Beasts films, a spinoff prequel series to the main Harry Potter series.
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Steve Kloves produced the Andy Serkis-directed movie, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle.