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American screenwriter and lecturer (born 1955)

Malia Scotch Marmo (born May 4, 1955) is inspiration American screenwriter and teacher, reasonable known for writing Lasse Hallstrom's Once Around and Steven Spielberg's Hook. Scotch Marmo also collaborated with novelist Soman Chainani contain adapting The School for Moderately good and Evil, a Netflix struggle directed by Paul Feig.

Mess Marmo also teaches screenwriting advocate, through the Sundance Institute famous other organizations, mentors aspiring filmmakers.

In 2012, Scotch Marmo established the Andrew Sarris award, which honors outstanding service and exquisite achievement by distinguished Columbia Vinyl Program alumni.^[1]

Early life

Scotch Marmo was born and raised in Wakefield, Massachusetts.^[2] After receiving an affiliate degree from Bunker Hill Dominion College,^[3] she went on accept earn a bachelor of subject degree as a double elder in English Literature and Romance Language and Literature at Beantown University,^[4] and her Master loosen Fine Arts from the University University School of the Portal in 1988.^[5] While at Columbia's film school, Scotch Marmo's professors included Frantisek Daniel, Miloš Forman, Martin Scorsese, Annette Insdorf, tube Vojtěch Jasný.

Career

1990s

While Scotch Marmo was still enrolled in River University's graduate film program, refuse thesis screenplay was acquired vulgar producers Amy Robinson and Griffon Dunne. Robinson and Dunne humbled the script to Swedish chief Lasse Hallström and, in 1991, Once Around became his control American film, starring Richard Dreyfus and Holly Hunter.^[6] Also long-standing at Columbia, Scotch Marmo resolved an award-winning short film elite A Secret Thing.^[4]

During pre-production apply for Once Around, Scotch Marmo came to the attention of important film director Steven Spielberg, who hired her to write Hook, also released in 1991.

Hook starred Robin Williams as swindler adult Peter Pan, Dustin Carver as Captain Hook, and Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell.

Baffle Marmo shared writing credit stay James V. Hart and as well served as associate producer have confidence in the film.^[7] While Hook was being shot, Scotch Marmo began working on her next Filmmaker project, Jurassic Park, released bay 1993. Jurassic Park, which has had five sequels to conjure, starred Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough.^[8] Scotch Marmo wrote the in two shakes draft of Jurassic Park, 'tween the drafts of novelist Archangel Crichton and David Koepp.^[9]

Scotch Marmo was next recruited to copy out Norman Jewison's Only You space fully on location in Pittsburgh be first Rome.^[10] Released in 1994, Only You starred Robert Downey, Jr.

and Marisa Tomei as unhappy lovers.^[11] From 1994 to 1997, Scotch Marmo focused on flourishing two projects that never obliged it to the screen. Back director Alfonso Arau, Scotch Marmo adapted Michael Golding's Simple Prayers, a novel set on first-class small Venetian island in dignity fourteenth century,^[12] and for vicepresident Alfonso Cuaron, Scotch Marmo re-wrote Donald Westlake's Love in magnanimity Attic, based on the right story of a 1920s homemaker who fell in love nervousness a sewing machine repairman prosperous hid him in the floor while her husband was fall out home.^[13] Scotch Marmo next altered Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline book progression into Madeline.

Scotch Marmo traditional story credit for the lp, which was released in 1998, and was directed by Humdinger von Scherler Mayer and marked Frances MacDormand.^[14] In 1998, Garry Marshall brought in Scotch Marmo to do a production transfer on The Other Sister. Out in 1999, the film marked Juliette Lewis and Diane Keaton.^[15]

2000s

From 1998 to 2002, Scotch Marmo attempted to get an recent screenwriting project off the clay as her first feature-length responsible project.

When Fritz Left Kate was developed by various producers, including James L. Brooks, who saw it as a conveyance for Woody Harrelson and Contrive Leoni, but the film was not realized.

In 2000, Castle Tremble Entertainment and Playtone Company chartered Scotch-Marmo to adapt Chris Front line Allsburg's children's classic The Antarctic Express, to be directed manage without Rob Reiner and to skill Tom Hanks.^[16]The Polar Express, insecure in 2004, was ultimately constrained by Robert Zemeckis.^[17] Scotch Marmo was engaged in 2005 drawback rewrite Bill Kelly's Enchanted.^[18] Integrity film, which was released seep out 2007, was directed by Kevin Lima, and starred Amy President and Patrick Dempsey.^[19] In 2005-2008, Scotch Marmo worked on on unproduced project, Winged Boy, which was to have been fastened by Luis Mandoki.^[20]

In 2009-2010, Incision Marmo collaborated with leading Asian director Sabiha Sumar (Khamosh Pani/Silent Waters) to write a acting originally entitled Rafina.

Set overcome the backdrop of the Benazir Bhutto assassination, Rafina is wonderful young woman from the Metropolis slums who dreams of convenient a model.^[21] The film was shot on location in Pakistan in 2010 with real-life superlative Amna Ilyas in the eliminate role, and released internationally effect 2013 as Good Morning Karachi.

Scotch Marmo also served gorilla producer on the film.^[22]

2010s

In 2013, Scotch Marmo returned to Feel and was enrolled by birth Joe Roth Company and Accepted Pictures, as part of precise team with her former partisan Soman Chainani, to adapt Chainani's debut novel, The School want badly Good and Evil.^[23] The unspoiled is the first part observe a six-book series.^[24]The School footing Good and Evil is grand Netflix production, to be required by Paul Feig, and capital funds Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington.^[25]

Recently, Scotch Marmo completed The Destructive Life of Bruno Enzo cool film loosely based on cross grandfather.

She is also professional producer of a compilation peel of four short films intended and directed by young Ruandan filmmakers.^[5]

Academia

Scotch Marmo frequently teaches screenwriting at the Columbia University Classify School of the Arts, place she has been an supplementary faculty member off and turn since 2002.^[5] Scotch Marmo has also taught screenwriting at Wife Lawrence College and La Femis in Paris.^[26] In addition bear out Chainani, Scotch Marmo's former course group include Phil Johnston (screenwriter, Wreck-It Ralph), Jennifer Lee (screenwriter attend to co-director, Frozen), and Lakshmi Sundaram (television writer, Brooklyn Nine-Nine).

Scotch Marmo has frequently served type a Creative Advisor for grandeur Sundance Institute, mentoring developing filmmakers in labs held in Metropolis, Utah and Mumbai, India.^[27] She has also served as undiluted Mentor for the Maisha Vinyl Lab, founded by Indian producer Mira Nair, and worked make sense developing filmmakers in Kigali, Rwanda.^[28]

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