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William J. Monahan
William Monahan in October 2006
William Monahan in October 2006
Born (1960-11-03) November 3, 1960 (age 64)
United States Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pen nameClaude La Badarian[1]
OccupationScreenwriter
Novelist
Journalist
Essayist
Critic
NationalityAmerican

William Monahan (IPA pronunciation: [ˈwil.jəm ˈmɑ.nə.hæn])[2] (born November 3 1960) is an American novelist and screenwriter. After attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Monahan, already a professional writer while an undergraduate, as well as a musician in Northampton, Massachusetts, moved to New York City to pursue a career as a journalist, writer and critic. He wrote several scabrous pieces for the New York Press, a few reviews for the New York Post, and contributed to the magazines Talk, Maxim, and Bookforum. He was also an editor at Spy magazine. He won a 1997 Pushcart Prize for a short story he had published in a literary journal. When Spy failed, he concentrated on writing films and he wrote Light House: A Trifle, his first novel, which garnered praise from critics.

Monahan went to work in Hollywood in 1998, when Warner Bros. bought the film rights to Light House: A Trifle, which had not yet been published, and contracted him to adapt it to the screen for director Gore Verbinski. In 2001, 20th Century Fox bought Monahan's spec script about the Barbary Wars called Tripoli, with Ridley Scott, who was to become Monahan's primary collaborator, attached to direct. Monahan has since worked with Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, among other filmmakers. His first produced screenplay, Kingdom of Heaven was made into a film by Ridley Scott and released in theaters in 2005. His second produced screenplay was The Departed, a film which earned him a WGA award and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Monahan prefers that screenplays be written by one writer rather than a collaboration of multiple screenwriters writing competing drafts. Thus far he has followed his scripts through production. In 2006, Monahan started his own production company, Henceforth, and negotiated a "first-look" producing deal with Warner Bros. Monahan currently resides on the North Shore of Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife and two children.[3]

Early years

Monahan was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an Irish-American family and was raised Catholic. He spent his early years in the neighborhood of Roslindale, eventually moving to the suburbs of Boston when his parents divorced.[3][4] Over the years he frequently moved, living in many of the suburban communities on the North Shore of Massachusetts with his mother and sister.[5] He regularly visited his father's home in the neighborhood of West Roxbury, where he would immerse himself in his father's extensive book collection; Monahan particularly enjoyed reading Shakespeare's plays.[3] His interest in movies began at age seven, when it occurred to him that a screenwriter was behind the story in Lawrence of Arabia.[6] Monahan wrote his first screenplay at age twelve.[7]

Man of letters

Main article: List of works by William Monahan

Monahan attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.[5] He wrote short fiction in some of the zines and small presses around Amherst, such as Perkins Press and the Old Crow Review, and played guitar for a band called the Slags.[8][9] After graduation, Monahan's ambition was to be a man of letters, which required a devotion to the genres of the essay, the review, the novel, poetry, and the biography.[10] He moved to New York City and began contributing to the alternative weekly newspaper New York Press and the men's magazine Maxim.[3][7][11] In 1995, Monahan wrote a provocative cover story for the New York Press that used the crimes of John Salvi to attack the Catholic Church's teachings[12]; six months later, he wrote another article at the Press that distinguishes him as the only person to solve the Unabomber's lexically-based targeting methodology before the bomber was caught.[13][14] The next year, Monahan wrote an article at the Press on heroin that provoked "an incredible dialogue in the letters column" in which according to Newsday's Jon Fine the "drug was discussed with greater honesty and clarity than you see almost anywhere else."[15][16] Monahan briefly wrote several reviews for the New York Post, among them, in 1997, a review of Oliver Stone's first novel A Child's Night Dream.[17] His short story "A Relation of Various Accidents Observable in Some Animals Included in Vacuo" was nominated in 1995 by the literary journal Old Crow Review for consideration by the Pushcart committee and subsequently won a 1997 Pushcart Prize.[18] Monahan was also an editor at Spy during the magazine's final year, while Bruno Maddox was editor-in-chief, and would come in at the close of the monthly issue to rewrite the articles and improve the jokes.[3]

By 1998 Monahan had built up an impressive literary corpus that abounded with excoriating criticisms and social observations. He even had an unpublished manuscript called Light House: A Trifle in the wings, that Warner Bros. had already optioned the film rights to.[19] Around the same time, Monahan became a father when his girlfriend gave birth to a baby boy. When Talk magazine debuted in 1999 he contributed a piece on Gloucester, Massachusetts.[20] Finally, in 2000, Monahan's first novel Light House: A Trifle was published and garnered critical acclaim; The New York Times proclaimed "Monahan's cocksure prose gallops along," and BookPage Fiction called Monahan "a worthy successor to Kingsley Amis."[4][21][22] In the second half of 2001, Monahan wrote a comic serial narrative that came in thirteen installments over thirteen weeks at the New York Press under the pseudonym of Claude La Badarian, a fictional restaurant critic from the equally fictional "Aristocrat Magazine". These short stories made satirical reference to his first novel and literary career.[1][23]

Screenwriting career

"I wanted to be an old-fashioned man of letters, so I essentially prepared myself very carefully through my 20s for a job that doesn't exist anymore; you may be able to find a man of letters in Syria or the Horn of Africa, but you could work Manhattan or London with dogs for a year and never find one. Anthony Burgess is dead, Vidal is the last lion, and at any rate belles-lettres aren't where they were left. Anyway, I'm making movies now. Just before all this happened, I thought, 'Out of everything you can do or think you can do, pick one thing and be it.' What I picked was to be the screenwriter."
— William Monahan

Monahan's first film commission was the adaptation of his own novel, in 1998, with Gore Verbinski attached as director. Warner Bros. optioned the film rights to the unpublished manuscript for his satirical novel Light House: A Trifle, a deal which briefly gave them the exclusive right to purchase the copyright at a future date.[24] Penguin Putnam subsequently delayed publishing Light House: A Trifle for a couple of years, so that they could release the novel alongside the film, but the screenplay adaptation was never produced. Monahan continued as a journalist, working for Details magazine, and as a book reviewer for Bookforum, but had committed to film writing. Light House was finally released in 2000, but the ordeal ended any immediate interest Monahan had in being a novelist. A few years later, while in Spain on Kingdom of Heaven he bought back the rights and took the novel off the market.[6][19] Light House was also available in a German edition translated by Ulrike Seeberger but went out-of-print.[25]

Tripoli

Monahan copyrighted his Tripoli script about William Eaton's epic march on Tripoli during the Barbary Wars in 1993, and later adapted the first two story sequences from his original screenplay into a short story called "Romantic" in 1997, published in the Old Crow Review.[26] It wasn't until 2001, shortly after he got married, that he sold his spec script Tripoli to 20th Century Fox, his first major sale, in a deal worth mid-six figures in American dollars with Mark Gordon attached as the producer.[27] The historical epic follows Eaton's campaign against Yusuf Bashaw to restore Yusuf's brother, the exiled heir Hamet Karamanli, to the throne of the Barbary Coast nation of Tripoli, and features a French mercenary named Joubert.[28] The script was given to Ridley Scott to direct. Monahan met with Scott to discuss Tripoli and Scott mentioned his desire to direct a film about knights. Monahan suggested the Crusades as a setting, reasoning that "you've got every conceivable plot imaginable there, which is far more exotic than fiction." Scott was captivated by Monahan's pitch and hired him to write the screenplay for Kingdom of Heaven. Tripoli was eventually shelved, but Monahan retained ownership of the screenplay, and therefore the right to consider new offers at a later date.[29][30]

Negotiating deals

In 2002, Monahan was hired by Universal Pictures to write the screenplay for Jurassic Park IV, with John Sayles writing the subsequent drafts.[31][32] In 2003, he was hired by Columbia Pictures to write Mazar e Sharif for producer Mace Neufeld, the story of the bloody uprising in the Afghan city Mazari Sharif during the successful American incursion against the Taliban, based on an unpublished manuscript from journalist Doug Stanton.[33] The same year, Brad Pitt's production company Plan B hired Monahan to write an adaptation of Hong Kong director Andrew Lau's gangster film Infernal Affairs. Monahan respun Infernal Affairs as a battle between Irish-American gangsters and cops in Boston's Southie district, and Martin Scorsese directed the completed screenplay under the title The Departed for Warner Bros.[34][35] Monahan's work on the film would later earn him two Best Adapted Screenplay awards, from the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2004, Monahan was hired to adapt Cormac McCarthy's immensely violent Western novel Blood Meridian for producer Scott Rudin with Ridley Scott set to direct.[36][37] In 2005, Monahan was hired to adapt Louis Begley's novel Wartime Lies for Warner Independent Pictures, previously in development as a Stanley Kubrick project called Aryan Papers.[38] The previous workload, consisting of adapting other storytellers' worlds and dramatizing historical periods, did not deter Monahan from taking on another historically-set project a few months later; Warner Bros. hired him to write a screenplay based on Marco Polo's autobiography Travels, for a film to be called The Venetian and set during Polo's Far East explorations.[36][39] Next up, in 2006, Monahan was hired by Warner Bros. to adapt David Ignatius' novel Body of Lies into a film titled Body of Lies, about a CIA operative who goes to Jordan to track a high-ranking terrorist, with Ridley Scott directing.[40]

Working scripts through production and after

Main articles: Kingdom of Heaven (film) and The Departed
"The crucial skill of a working screenwriter is that you have to have some depth of ability and ideation. Your ninth idea has to be as good or better than your first, and that's where a lot of people crack up. You have to remain on top of your game and in absolute control of the text and a successful advocate of your own intentions no matter what influences hit the picture or from which direction. You do that by having the best ideas in the room. If you don't, you will be replaced. It's nothing personal."
— William Monahan, on developing a screenplay.[7]

Kingdom of Heaven was the first of Monahan's screenplays to be produced into a film. Monahan had negotiated a production write-through contract for Kingdom of Heaven, which allowed him to be present on the movie sets to make modifications to the shooting script during production.[41] It was while he was on the set of Kingdom that his wife gave birth to a second child; a baby girl named Iris. Monahan managed to get two days off to spend with them.[42] After production, Ridley Scott put together a 3-hour long cut of Kingdom of Heaven and submitted it to a preview screening. The preview audience felt the 3-hour long cut was too long and gradually Scott became convinced as well.[43] The theatrical release of Kingdom of Heaven was pared down to 145 minutes. It was poorly received by critics when it was released in theaters in 2005. Kingdom was described as a "confusing compromise at best and a dull obfuscation of history at worst" by Peter Canavese of Groucho Reviews and Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid wrote that Kingdom "has at its center a bold story, and yet it sits there like a stone pillar."[44][45] Ridley Scott would later remark that he got carried away with cutting the film in the editing room and learned that "the enemy is previews" because these test screenings are tantamount to asking an inexperienced group of people to be film critics.[46] Kingdom was reappraised by critics when it was released on DVD in the form of a director's cut that contained an additional 45 minutes of footage previously shot from Monahan's shooting script. Critics were pleased with the extended version of the film and James Berardinelli of ReelViews remarked that "now that the director's cut is available, there's no reason for anyone to watch the neutered theatrical edition."[47]

In 2005, author James Reston Jr. claimed Monahan's screenplay for Kingdom of Heaven violated the copyright of his 2001 novel Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade. Reston claimed he had previously offered Ridley Scott the book for a movie deal but was turned down. He alleged that the entire second half of Monahan's shooting script was based on the first 105 pages of his book, and noted that Kingdom of Heaven is the title of the second chapter in his book.[48] 20th Century Fox denied all of Reston's claims and Monahan commented, "There was no infringement, period. I've been familiar with the fall of the Latin Kingdom for thirty-odd years." Reston did not pursue the matter and never filed a lawsuit.[49]

The Departed, Monahan's second produced screenplay

Monahan's second produced screenplay was The Departed, an adaptation of the Hong Kong action film Infernal Affairs. Monahan chose not to watch Infernal Affairs so that he could create an original interpretation, and instead worked from an English translation of the Chinese script for the Hong Kong film.[50] As he had previously done, he negotiated a production write-through contract so that he could personally rewrite his script if needed during shooting.[41] He spent some time rewriting the character of Frank Costello according to suggestions from actor Jack Nicholson, who was going to play the part. Monahan had originally written Nicholson's character as a 68-year old Irish-American murderer who is jaded with sexual intercourse, but Nicholson had his own ideas for the character. Monahan credits Nicholson's notes for sexualizing the character of the mob boss Costello.[6][51] The female lead character Madolyn was actually the most heavily rescripted of all the parts during production.[5]

Monahan received considerable praise from critics when the film was released in theaters in 2006, and was applauded for accurately depicting the city of Boston. Monahan used his intimate knowledge of the way Bostonians talk and act, learned from his youth spent in the many neighborhoods of Boston, to create characters that The Boston Globe described as distinctly indigenous to the city.[52] By the end of 2006, The Departed had won many critics' prizes. Monahan was honored by The Boston Society of Film Critics with the award for best screenplay, by the Chicago Film Critics Association for best adapted screenplay, and by the Southeastern Film Critics Association with another best adapted screenplay award.[53][54][55] While it has been stated that Monahan hired a publicist to run a campaign promoting his screenplay during awards season,[56] Monahan in fact hired the publicity firm to manage relations with the studio, and respectfully refused most publicity offers during the Awards Season, including an appearance on The Charlie Rose Show. Monahan will rarely do an in-person interview. He ended up winning two Best Adapted Screenplay awards for The Departed, from the Writers Guild of America and from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[57][58] He also received an award for his writing in film at the US-Ireland Alliance’s second annual "Oscar Wilde: Honoring Irish Writing in Film" ceremony.[4] As of 2007, he is working on a film treatment for a follow-up to The Departed, which may be either a prequel or a sequel.[59]

In 2007, Monahan was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[60]

Becoming a producer

In 2006, Monahan started his own production company on the Warner Bros. lot called Henceforth. He negotiated a first-look producing deal with Warner Bros. which gives the studio the first right of first refusal on any films produced by Henceforth. In return Henceforth received the film rights to produce John Pearson's true crime novel The Gamblers, which Warner Bros. had acquired the rights to.[39] Monahan has some familiarity with the various stages of the filmmaking process because of his experiences, from development to completion, working on the films Kingdom of Heaven and The Departed.[41] Nevertheless, as a producer Monahan would have obligations unfamiliar to a screenwriter, such as raising the finances to pay for the production of the film, managing the film through production, hiring the director and film crew, and finding a distributor to release the film.[61] Monahan will also be the one adapting The Gamblers to the screen.[19]

After winning an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Departed in 2007, it was announced that Monahan had been hired to work on two film projects: an adaptation of the Hong Kong film Confession of Pain and an original Rock and Roll film called The Long Play. Monahan will executive produce and write the adaptation for Confession of Pain. It is Monahan's second adaptation of a Hong Kong film.[62] Both of the Hong Kong films he has been involved in adapting, Infernal Affairs and Confession of Pain, were originally produced by Media Asia Films and created by directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak and screenwriter Felix Chong.[63] The adaptation of Confession of Pain will be produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's production company Appian Way for Warner Bros. Pictures.[62] Monahans' other assignment is to rewrite a screenplay about the history of the rock music business called The Long Play. The Long Play is the creation of Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the influential British Invasion group The Rolling Stones, and was nurtured at Mick Jagger's production company Jagged Films. Martin Scorsese became involved while the film project was at Disney but recently negotiated a turnaround deal to bring The Long Play to Paramount.[64] In 1999, Jagger and Scorsese hired Rolling Stone magazine writer Rich Cohen to research and write the first drafts for the Rock and Roll story.[65] In the intervening years Matthew Weiss, who wrote the screenplay for Niagara, Niagara, did several rewrites of the original drafts, and Monahan will now do a rewrite of his own.[64][66]

Writing process

Monahan has asserted that screenplays should be written by one author and does not support the collaborative model in which multiple screenwriters write competing drafts until the producer and director are satisfied.[6] His interest in motion pictures began at an early age, but he steered clear of the film industry because he mistakenly surmised that the collaborative model was a de facto practice for creating screenplays.[7] In his late 30s, he went to Hollywood to adapt his first novel into a film.[24] Since then, he has generally been the sole writer on his screenplays, except for Jurassic Park IV, which was taken over by John Sayles and rewritten when Monahan had to go on location for Kingdom of Heaven.[6] Monahan's view is that a screenwriter can retain the authorship of their screenplay if they have the support of a powerful film director and successfully advocate their ideas, even in the face of the inevitable influences of actors, directors and producers. He prefers writing screenplays over other genres because generally a released film will reach a wider audience and have a greater cultural effect than a published novel.[7]

In his youth, Monahan developed an appreciation for Shakespeare and went on to concentrate on Shakespeare's works at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has studied English drama for over thirty years and has stated that because of those efforts he has reached a level of ability where he is "post-conscious about craft."[19] He has a strong interest in history and reads the available primary sources when researching a historical period.[67] His first major screenplay sale was Tripoli, which chronicled William Eaton's campaign during the Barbary Wars.[27] Monahan has commented that he aims for historical accuracy but even Shakespeare would take liberties in order to dramatize a scene.[49] Monahan has criticized screenwriting courses that emphasize formulaic approaches to storytelling in which every story has to have characters that change and go on Hero's journeys. He argues that these are types of stories, and that screenplay structure doesn't always have to follow those archetypes.[19]

Monahan has quipped that he would prefer to work on an old Olivetti Praxis typewriter in many instances because there are too many distractions on a modern computer.[19]

Credits

Essays, criticism, reviews, and short stories

Main article: List of works by William Monahan

Novels

  • Lighthouse: A Trifle (June 2000)

Films

Screenplays (unproduced)

  • Light House (2000)[68]
  • Tripoli (2001)
  • Mazar e Sharif
  • Blood Meridian (adaptation)
  • Wartime Lies (adaptation)
  • The Venetian
  • The Gamblers (adaptation)
  • Confession of Pain (adaptation)
  • The Long Play (rewrite)

References

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  2. ^ "Pronunciation of William Monahan". inogolo.com. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
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  4. ^ a b c "Van Morrison, Terry George and Bill Monahan honored in LA" (Press release). US-Ireland Alliance. 2007-02-26. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
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  9. ^ The Old Crow Review was founded in 1993 and is a biannual literary journal published by FKB Press in Amherst, MA, USA.
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  11. ^ William Monahan (Fall 2001). "Remedial Reading: William Monahan on The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton". Bookforum. Retrieved 2007-04-08.
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  18. ^ William Monahan (1996). "A Relation of Various Accidents Observable in Some Animals Included in Vacuo". In Bill Henderson (ed.). The Pushcart Prize XXI: Best of the Small Presses (1997). Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1888889000. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
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  38. ^ Claude Brodesser (2005-05-10). "WIP a 'Wartime' recruit: Warner catches WWII 'Lies'". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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