Everett De Roche
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Everett De Roche (b 12 July 1946) is an American born screenwriter who has worked extensively in Australian film and TV.
Career
De Roche was born in Lincoln Maine and moved to San Diego with his family when he was six. He moved to Australia with his wife when he was 22 and originally worked as a journalist. From 1970-74 he was a staff writer at Crawford Productions mainly working on police shows, then he freelanced. In the late 70s and early 80s he established himself as the leading screenwriter of thrillers in Australia.[1][2]
He often worked with director Richard Franklin who said of him:
Everett is a very inspirational writer... Everett gives one too much of everything and you don’t always know what to use. You start editing down and you end up with words and single lines of dialogue that were once scenes. That is maybe how this problem, as you see it, comes about. But that only has to do with Everett’s extraordinarily fertile imagination and his writing speed.[3]
Select Credits
- Patrick (1978)
- Long Weekend (1978)
- Snapshot (1979)
- Locuts and Wild Honey (1980) (miniseries)
- Roadgames (1981)
- Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)
- Razorback (1984)
- Frog Dreaming (1985)
- Link (1986)
- Windrider (1986)
- Stingers (TV series) (1998-2001)
- Storm Warning (2007)
- Long Weekend (2008)
- Nine Miles Down (2009)
Unmade Projects
- Firestorm (circa 1984) - film about bushfires in Mornington Peninsula that was to mark his directorial debut[4]
- Breakwater (early 1990s) - a science fiction adventure story set around Half Moon Bay's hulk of the Cerebus with director Richard Franklin[5]
- Making Noises (2010) - co-writer[6]
- High Seas (2010) - a pirate film[7]
References
- ↑ Everett de Roche at Crawford Productions accessed 23 Sept 2012
- ↑ 'An Interview with Everett de Roche', 1 June 2012 accessed 23 Sept 2012
- ↑ Scott Murray, "Richard Franklin: Director/Producer", Senses of Cinema, 12 July 2008 accessed 26 October 2012
- ↑ "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, August 1984 p259
- ↑ Richard Franklin, "Returning Home", Cinema Papers, June 1995 p24-27,57
- ↑ 'Not Australian Enough', 29 May 2012 accessed 2 Oct 2012
- ↑ 'Everett De Roche pens modern pirate flick' Quiet Earth 20 Jan 2010 accessed 2 Oct 2012
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