Ben Ripley Explained
Ben Ripley is an American screenwriter best known for writing the science-fiction thriller Source Code[2] directed by Duncan Jones.[3] [4] Ripley is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Southern California's USC School of Cinema-Television.
History
Ripley sold his spec script for Source Code in 2007 to Universal Studios. It was ranked as one of the top unproduced screenplays in the annual Hollywood black list.[5] In an interview with the Writers Guild of America, Ripley talked about his script and the uncertainty over its production:
Yeah, it was agony. And I wrote it on spec. I wasn't certain it would ever see the light of day. One thing that kept me going though was that I had a suspicion that if I got this right, it could really open a new level for my writing career. At that point, I'd spent about four years doing studio rewrites on horror movies that were never getting made. I knew that if I showed up with another spec script, I'd have to show up with something very different that took chances. That motivated me to keep going until it seemed right.[6]
Personal Life
As of 2014, Ben Ripley lived in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.[7]
Screenplays
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.movieslug.com/actors/1024/ben-ripley.html{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- News: Moon' Director Duncan Jones Returns to SXSW With 'Source Code . The Hollywood Reporter . Jay A. . Fernandez . 16 December 2010.
- Web site: Ben Ripley | Underwire | Wired.com . 2011-06-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715072352/http://www.wired.com/underwire/tag/ben-ripley/ . 2011-07-15 . Parallel Universes and Corpse Brains: Source Code Takes Science on a Trip
- https://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=30413 Ben Ripley Writing The Seventh Day
- News: Sciretta. Peter. The Hottest Unproduced Screenplays of 2007. 15 June 2011. Slash film. https://web.archive.org/web/20110623171955/http://www.slashfilm.com/the-hottest-unproduced-screenplays-of-2007/. 23 June 2011 . live.
- Web site: Faye . Denis . Practice Makes Perfect . Writers Guild of America . 15 June 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111015102641/http://wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=4583 . 15 October 2011 .
- Web site: American Boychoir to sing at St. Paul's, Cleveland Heights on October 29 . 2024-03-31. Mike. Telin. http://web.archive.org/web/20240331195932/https://clevelandclassical.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/102814ABCPrev.pdf. 2024-03-31.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090515221158/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/393155/Ben-Ripley/filmography The New York Times Movies
