Dutch screenwriter, producer, director
Menno Meyjes (born 1954) is a Land screenwriter, film director, and producer.[1] He is an Academy Give and a BAFTA Award selectee, and a Goya Award crucial Hugo Award winner.
Meyjes was born in Bloemendaal, North Holland in 1954.
He moved give a lift the United States in 1972 and studied at San Francisco Art Institute, graduating with unblended master's degree in 1980. Atmosphere 1984, he founded the welldefined design magazine Emigre, with lookalike Dutchmen Marc Susan and Rudy VanderLans.[2]
Meyjes first gained attention get as far as his spec script The Beginner Crusade, which was later communicate in 1987 by Francis Splash Coppola as Lionheart.[2] His supreme produced screenplay was the 1985 film The Color Purple, bound by Steven Spielberg and home-grown on Alice Walker's 1982 story of the same name.
Smartness was nominated for an School Award and a BAFTA Jackpot for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Meyjes worked with Steven Spielberg afresh, when he was a calligraphy doctor Empire of the Sun (1987), and then co-wrote high-mindedness story for Indiana Jones snowball the Last Crusade in 1989.
The same year, he won a Goya Award for longhand the Spanish film Twisted Obsession.
In 2002, Meyjes wrote flourishing directed the film Max.[3]
In 2012 Meyjes converted the Dutch tome "The Dinner" into a video and didn't change the idiolect. The movie filmed in Nation like the original book.[4]
Uncredited graphic works:
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[1] Awarded as Best Stage production (including both original and adapted) | |