Kevin Jarre
Kevin Jarre (August 6, 1954 – April 3, 2011) was an American screenwriter, actor, and film producer.
Background
Jarre was born in Detroit, Michigan, to actress Laura Devon (who subsequently married film composer Maurice Jarre in the mid-1960s), and was the adopted son of French composer Maurice Jarre.
Career
His better-known screenplays include Rambo: First Blood Part II, Glory (1989), and Tombstone. Jarre also wrote the screenplays for The Mummy (1999) and The Devil's Own, and produced The Jackal (1997). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and a WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Glory.
Jarre died in Santa Monica, California, of heart failure, age 56.[1]
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| 1980–2000 |
- Can't Stop the Music – Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr (1980)
- Mommie Dearest – Frank Yablans, Frank Perry, Tracy Hotchner and Robert Getchell (1981)
- Inchon – Robin Moore and Laird Koenig (1982)
- The Lonely Lady – John Kershaw, Shawn Randall and Ellen Shephard (1983)
- Bolero – John Derek (1984)
- Rambo: First Blood Part II – Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron and Kevin Jarre (1985)
- Howard the Duck – Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz (1986)
- Leonard Part 6 – Jonathan Reynolds and Bill Cosby (1987)
- Cocktail – Heywood Gould (1988)
- Harlem Nights – Eddie Murphy (1989)
- The Adventures of Ford Fairlane – Daniel Waters, James Cappe & David Arnott (1990)
- Hudson Hawk – Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters, Bruce Willis and Robert Kraft (1991)
- Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot – Blake Snyder, William Osborne and William Davies – (1992)
- Indecent Proposal – Amy Holden Jones (1993)
- The Flintstones – Jim Jennewein, Steven E. de Souza, Tom S. Parker and various others (1994)
- Showgirls – Joe Eszterhas (1995)
- Striptease – Andrew Bergman (1996)
- The Postman – Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland (1997)
- An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn – Joe Eszterhas (1998)
- Wild Wild West – Jim Thomas, John Thomas, S. S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman (1999)
- Battlefield Earth – Corey Mandell and J. David Shapiro (2000)
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| 2001–present |
- Freddy Got Fingered – Tom Green & Derek Harvie (2001)
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones – George Lucas and Jonathan Hales (2002)
- Gigli – Martin Brest (2003)
- Catwoman – Theresa Rebeck, John Brancato, Michael Ferris and John Rogers (2004)
- Dirty Love – Jenny McCarthy (2005)
- Basic Instinct 2 – Leora Barish and Henry Bean (2006)
- I Know Who Killed Me – Jeffrey Hammond (2007)
- The Love Guru – Mike Myers & Graham Gordy (2008)
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (2009)
- The Last Airbender – M. Night Shyamalan (2010)
- Jack and Jill – Steve Koren and Adam Sandler, story by Ben Zook (2011)
- That's My Boy - David Caspe (2012)
- Movie 43 - Steve Baker, Ricky Blitt, Will Carlough, Tobias Carlson, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Claes Kjellstrom, Jack Kukoda, Bob Odenkirk, Bill O'Malley, Matthew Alec Portenoy, Greg Pritikin, Rocky Russo, Olle Sarri, Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Jeremy Sosenko, Jonathan van Tulleken and Jonas Wittenmark (2013)
- Saving Christmas - Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey (2014)
- Fifty Shades of Grey - Kelly Marcel (2015)
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer (2016)
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