Steven Kloves (born March 18, 1960) is an American screenwriter mainly renowned for his adaptations of novels, especially for the Harry Potter film series and for Wonder Boys, whose screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. He has also directed two movies and will be directing a third (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time) in the near future. March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... Cover of the first book in J. K. Rowlings series: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (British/Canadian/Australian/Irish/ Japanese/Taiwanese/African version) The Harry Potter books are a series of fantasy novels by British writer J. K. Rowling. ... Wonder Boys is a 2000 motion picture starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, and Robert Downey Jr. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a novel written by Mark Haddon which won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year. ...

Kloves, born in Austin, Texas in 1960, grew up in Sunnyvale, California where he attended Fremont High School. He entered UCLA but dropped out after reducing his schedule to only a few courses in his second year. As an unpaid intern for a Hollywood agent, he gained attention for a screenplay he wrote called Swings. This led to a meeting where he successfully pitched Racing with the Moon (1984). Nickname: Live Music Capital of the World Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Country United States State Texas County Travis County Mayor Will Wynn Area    - City 669. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Location of Sunnyvale within Santa Clara County, California. ... Fremont High School is a comprehensive, co-educational, public secondary school that serves eastern Sunnyvale, California. ... Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the... ... Category: ...

His first experience with professional screenwriting left him wanting more interaction with the actors so that the characters would stay true to his vision. Kloves wrote The Fabulous Baker Boys and also intended it to be his directorial debut. After years of trying to sell the project in Hollywood, the film finally got off the ground and was released in 1989. The Fabulous Baker Boys did reasonably well, but his next shot as writer/director for Flesh and Bone (1993) faired poorly at the box office. Kloves then stopped writing for three years. The Fabulous Baker Boys is a 1989 film about two brothers who perform a duo piano show together in small clubs. ... Flesh and Bone is a 1993 movie starring Meg Ryan, Dennis Quaid, and Gwyneth Paltrow. ...

Realizing that he had to return to writing to support his family, he began adapting Michael Chabon's novel Wonder Boys into a screenplay. Kloves was offered the chance to direct but he declined, preferring to direct only his own original screenplays. This was his first try at adapting another work to film. His screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award after the film's release in 2000. Film adaptation is the transfer of a written work to a feature film. ... Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American author best known for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. ... Wonder Boys is a 2000 motion picture starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, and Robert Downey Jr. ...

Warner Bros. sent Kloves a list of novels that the company was considering to adapt as films. The listing included the first Harry Potter novel, which intrigued him despite his usual indifference to these catalogs. He went on to write the screenplays for the first four films in the blockbuster series. After finishing the fourth adaptation, Kloves left to pursue his own project and currently is directing and writing The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, expected to release in 2007. Harry Potter producer David Heyman revealed in an October 2005 press conference that Kloves would be returning to adapt Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — the sixth in the series.^[1] Warner Bros. ... David Heyman is a British film producer born in London, England in 1961. ... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a planned future movie based on J.K. Rowlings sixth book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. ...

References

• Sragow, Michael. "A wizard of Hollywood!" 24 February 2000. Salon.com [1] (interview with Steve Kloves)

1. ^ Heyman: Kloves to Return for Sixth Script. The Leaky Cauldron. Retrieved on 2006-11-26.

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External links

• Steven Kloves at the Internet Movie Database