Roger Avary of Pulp Fiction and Killing Zoe fame wrote the first Silent Hill movie. He was slated to write the second one. Then, the unthinkable happened.
Roger Avary, who received an Oscar for Pulp Fiction and who wrote the Silent Hill movie, is headed to jail for gross vehicular manslaughter. He was sentenced to a year in prison and five years probation.
Roger Avary, who won an Oscar for Pulp Fiction, has pleaded guilty to DUI and vehicular manslaughter for a deadly crash in 2008 that left his friend dead and his wife in critical condition.
Oscar winner Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction) penned the movie version of Konami horror game Silent Hill. Word has it he’s involved with the sequel.
Don’t go expecting that Wolfenstein movie adaptation any time soon. A combination of the writer’s strike and his own workload (plus, uh, some other stuff) means Roger Avary is still working on the movie’s script. And with nobody else having seen it, it’s to be presumed he’s only just started it. Bummer. While id’s Todd Hollenshead revealed to Eurogamer that the movie deal includes some “contract provisions”, stating Avary can’t just sit on the property forever, he also admits that it’s not every day you get a chance to have an Academy Award winner write your movie. Not every day an Academy Award winner gets to write a movie about nazis, zombies and a mechanised Adolf Hitler, either. Avary writing Wolf movie “right now” [Eurogamer]
Roger Avary, who were it not for the writer’s strike would probably be hard at work finishing up his script for the Wolfenstein movie, is instead looking at some potential jail time after being arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. He’s alleged to have been driving under the influence when, early Monday morning, he was involved in a car accident which saw his wife hospitalised and his friend, Italian Andreas Zini, killed. He’s currently out on $US 50,000 bail. In a statement released this afternoon, Avery’s representative says: Roger wishes to publicly convey his heartfelt condolences to the family of the deceased. Words cannot express how sorry he is, and this tragic accident will always haunt him.
Screenwriter Avary releases statement on car wreck death [LA Times][Image]
By John Gaudiosi
Long before Hollywood screenwriter (Pulp Fiction, Silent Hill) and director (Rules of Attraction) Roger Avary was writing movies, he was writing code. Avary, who co-wrote Robert Zemeckis’ 3D computer-generated Beowulf with Neil Gaiman, never published a game, but he shared many with his friends.
“When I was a kid, Star Raiders on the Atari 800 was the be-all, end-all game,” said Avary. “It was Star Trek and Star Wars rolled into one. You had a map and you could refuel at star bases and defend them. I’ll never forget what it was like to warp from one location to another and try to keep centred or else I’d fall off course. I bought an Atari 800 computer because of that game and learned how to program on that computer using 6502 Assembly.
Avary regrets never submitting his biggest game, Shuttle Crash, to the Atari Program Exchange, which published games created by users. The game was an interpretation of Lunar Lander, but gamers had to perform a forced landing while doing as little damage as possible to the ship and keeping the crew alive.
The film adaptation of Return to Castle Wolfenstein marks the first time Roger Avary has returned to the director’s chair since the critically lauded 2002 film, The Rules of Attraction. In that intern, he’s penned the Silent Hill film and Beowulf. Avary tells MTV:
I’m doing an adaptation of the game Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I just love the World War II guys-on-a-mission movies; to me, “Castle Wolfenstein” is all of that, plus monsters and horror and all that craziness jammed together. It’s my dream film.
Avary is tightlipped about whom he hopes to cast in the film, but previously stated the answer was in the game’s box art. Shooting could start early next year. That means that Avary could get his men-on-a-mission WWII film in the can before director Quentin Tarantino does. Tarantino has been working on a WWII script called Inglorious Bastards since the late 1990′s! Avary Talks Wolfenstein [MTV Movies via Multiplayer]
