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Mr. Black was born on December 16, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He is the son of Paul and Patricia Ann Black.
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The official companion book to the darkly humorous action film from director Shane Black. Directed by celebrated writer/director Shane Black, The Nice Guys: From Script to Screen chronicles the noir/buddy film set in Los Angeles in the 1970s, starring A-listers Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as reluctant partners trying to solve a missing persons case. Set during the 1970s in smog-ridden Los Angeles, The Nice Guys is the story about a Los Angeles private investigator (Ryan Gosling) who reluctantly partners with a tough guy (Russell Crowe) to find a missing girl. Their investigation reveals a connection between the missing girl to porn star Misty Mountains, recently dead from a car crash. In classic Shane Black fashion, the writer/director spins a darkly humorous noir, as our pair crisscrosses the city, from Bel Air to downtown L.A. Richly illustrated, the book is a visit back in time to the glamour (and seediness) of the City of Angels circa 1977. The film is equal parts mystery and a love letter to a Los Angeles of long ago, and The Nice Guys: From Script to Screen is sure to captivate fans of the film and of Los Angeles alike.
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Mr. Black was born on December 16, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He is the son of Paul and Patricia Ann Black.
Shane Black graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, obtaining Bachelor of Arts in 1983.
Shane Black is known as a screenwriter, actor, and executive producer. He worked variously as a typist, data entry clerk, and movie theater usher. His film appearances include roles as Hawkins in Predator, Twentieth Century-Fox, in 1987. In 1988 he was a patrolman in Dead Heat, New World, and Donnelly in Robocop 3 in 1993. In 1991 Mr. Shane became an executive producer of The Last Boy Scout, Warner Bros.
Once Warner Bros. requested a Lethal Weapon sequel, Mr. Black wrote the first draft of Lethal Weapon 2 with the help of novelist Warren Murphy. Although it wasn't used, Black said in later interviews that Warner Bros. didn't like his original script for Lethal Weapon 2, which was also titled Play Dirty, because of how dark and violent it was and due to his decision to kill off main character Martin Riggs in the ending of the script. Nevertheless, other people thought that his script was brilliant, and he himself considers it to be his best work and the best script he has ever written. Although many fans have tried to find a copy of it, Black's version of the script was never released.
Feeling burned out and having conflicts with the studio, Shane Black left the project after six months, earning only $125,000 (out of a $250,000 payment split with Murphy) for his work. After two sabbatical years, Black decided to take on an old idea of his that emerged during the production of Lethal Weapon and turn it into a full screenplay. The result, The Last Boy Scout, earned him $1.75 million in 1991. Mr. Black would also earn $1 million for his rewrite of Last Action Hero in 1993.
Shane Black made his directorial debut with 2005's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and later directed (and co-wrote with Drew Pearce) 2013's Iron Man 3, which ranks as the twelfth-highest-grossing film of all time worldwide.
Mr. Black next directed the action comedy The Nice Guys, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, and produced by Joel Silver. Warner Bros. handles North American rights to the film, which was released on May 20, 2016.
His next projects include an adaptation of Doc Savage, and The Destroyer, based on the 1985 film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, starring Fred Ward.
Shane Black has a recognizable writing style characterized by stories in which two main characters become friends and trade witty dialogue, featuring labyrinthine crime plots, often set during Christmas time.The quips he incorporates into his scripts are referred to as "Shane Blackisms", in which jokes about the story situations are included in the scene directions of the script. He also sometimes directs comments at studio executives and script readers. This approach, which Mr. Black summed as "more open to the reader" and aimed at "trying to keep people awake".
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Quotations: "If you act strange and stand outside of 7-Eleven in a baggy coat, people think you’re psychotic,": he told Greenberg. "If you act strange and take those weird thoughts and sell them for $1 million, people think you’re eccentric. There are probably people who think just like me and weren’t quite as lucky, and they’re probably in an institution somewhere. So I’m lucky enough to have a marketable obsession, a marketable lunacy as it were."