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'{{short description|American screenwriter and teacher (born 1955)}} {{BLP primary sources|date=July 2017}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox person |name = Malia Scotch Marmo |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|5|4}} |birth_place = [[FYI type uiiouyfoio, Massachusetts]], U.S.goyghogy8gohohhggoggoghjokkjhgg8g9hgh9ggifh FYI HD g8glgffg9figguihggkihojjhohhhiohfg8ff8iggogghyuiggjjiggjkjkyfh8fhkkfi GT hjhhgjkjkjkkkkmkhbkjvygoggijokkhggogghoyyihggighijjhghogjojhjkhhkjohghihgjojghkkojghokhhkk GT hjhgkoygiuyiiohgohgougokjhhkkkjhkhhkojoioggooghjoohhhoook |death_date = |death_place = |education = [[Bunker Hill Community College]]<br>[[Boston University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}}<br>[[Columbia University]] {{small|([[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]])}} }} '''Malia Scotch Marmo''' (born May 4, 1955) is an American [[screenwriter]] and teacher, best known for writing [[Lasse Hallstrom]]'s ''[[Once Around]]'' and [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''[[Hook (film)|Hook]].'' Scotch Marmo also collaborated with novelist [[Soman Chainani]] in adapting ''[[The School for Good and Evil (film)|The School for Good and Evil]]'', a [[Netflix]] production directed by [[Paul Feig]]. Scotch Marmo also teaches screenwriting and, through the [[Sundance Institute]] and other organizations, mentors aspiring filmmakers. In 2012, Scotch Marmo received the [[Andrew Sarris]] award, which honors outstanding service and artistic achievement by distinguished Columbia Film Program alumni.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.filmlinc.com/press/entry/columbia-university-film-festival-celebrates-25-years|title = Columbia University Film Festival Celebrates 25 years|date = March 27, 2012|website = Filmlinc}}</ref> ==Early life== Scotch Marmo was born and raised in [[Wakefield, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/01/movies/at-the-movies.html|title = At the Movies|last = Van Gelder|first = Lawrence|date = February 1, 1991|work = The New York Times}}</ref> After receiving an associate degree from [[Bunker Hill Community College]],<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.lituanus.org/1993_3/93_3_04.htm|title = The Lithuanian Angle in a Hollywood Movie: An Analysis of 'Once Around'|website = Lituanus: Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences|last = Wolkovich-Valkavicius|first = William}}</ref> she went on to earn a bachelor of arts degree as a double major in English Literature and Spanish Language and Literature at [[Boston University]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Travers|first=Peter|date=1991-01-18|title=Once Around|newspaper=Rolling Stone|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/once-around-101094/|url-status=live}}</ref> and her Master of Fine Arts from the [[Columbia University School of the Arts]] in 1988.<ref name="artscolumbia">{{Cite web|title=Malia Scotch Marmo|url=https://arts.columbia.edu/profiles/malia-scotch-marmo|access-date=2021-03-07|website=Columbia - School of the Arts|language=en}}</ref> While at Columbia's film school, Scotch Marmo's professors included [[Frank Daniel|Frantisek Daniel]], [[Miloš Forman]], [[Martin Scorsese]], [[Annette Insdorf]], and [[Vojtěch Jasný]]. ==Career== ===1990s=== While Scotch Marmo was still enrolled in Columbia University's graduate film program, her thesis screenplay was acquired by producers [[Amy Robinson]] and [[Griffin Dunne]]. Robinson and Dunne brought the script to Swedish director Lasse Hallström and, in 1991, ''Once Around'' became his first American film, starring [[Richard Dreyfus]] and [[Holly Hunter]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102590/|title = Once Around|website = IMDB}}</ref> Also while at Columbia, Scotch Marmo directed an award-winning short film entitled ''A Secret Thing.''<ref name=":0" /> During pre-production for ''Once Around'', Scotch Marmo came to the attention of acclaimed film director Steven Spielberg, who hired her to write ''Hook'', also released in 1991. ''Hook'' starred [[Robin Williams]] as an adult [[Peter Pan]], [[Dustin Hoffman]] as [[Captain Hook]], and [[Julia Roberts]] as [[Tinkerbell]]. Scotch Marmo shared writing credit with [[James V. Hart]] and also served as associate producer on the film.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102057/?ref_=ttqt_qt_tt|title = Hook|website = IMDB}}</ref> While ''Hook'' was being shot, Scotch Marmo began working on her next Spielberg project, ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', released in 1993. ''Jurassic Park'', which has had five sequels to date, starred [[Sam Neill]], [[Laura Dern]], [[Jeff Goldblum]], and [[Richard Attenborough]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/|title = Jurassic Park|website = IMDB}}</ref> Scotch Marmo wrote the second draft of ''Jurassic Park'', between the drafts of novelist [[Michael Crichton]] and [[David Koepp]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Taylor|first=Drew|date=June 11, 2013|title=5 Versions of 'Jurassic Park' You Never Saw|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2013/06/5-versions-of-jurassic-park-you-never-saw-97110/|url-status=live|website=Indiewire}}</ref> Scotch Marmo was next recruited to rewrite [[Norman Jewison]]'s ''[[Only You (1994 film)|Only You]]'' while on location in Pittsburgh and Rome.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url = https://www.ew.com/article/1994/10/28/only-you-love-among-ruins|title = 'Only You': Love Among the Ruins|date = January 17, 2015|magazine = Entertainment Weekly|last = Hart|first = Marion}}</ref> Released in 1994, ''Only You'' starred [[Robert Downey, Jr.]] and [[Marisa Tomei]] as star-crossed lovers.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110737/|title = Only You|website = IMDB}}</ref> From 1994 to 1997, Scotch Marmo focused on developing two projects that never made it to the screen. For director [[Alfonso Arau]], Scotch Marmo adapted [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/644583.Simple_Prayers Michael Golding's ''Simple Prayers''], a novel set on a small Venetian island in the fourteenth century,<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://variety.com/1994/film/news/prayers-comes-true-in-witt-thomas-buy-118011/|title = 'Prayers' comes true in Witt-Thomas buy|date = February 2, 1994|website = Variety|last = Moerk|first = Christian}}</ref> and for director [[Alfonso Cuaron]], Scotch Marmo re-wrote [[Donald Westlake]]'s ''Love in the Attic'', based on the true story of a 1920s housewife who fell in love with a sewing machine repairman and hid him in the attic while her husband was at home.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://variety.com/1993/film/news/dave-delivers-message-106579/|title = 'Dave' delivers message|date = May 6, 1993|website = Variety|last = Ayscough|first = Suzan}}</ref> Scotch Marmo next adapted [[Ludwig Bemelmans]]' [[Madeline (book series)|Madeline book series]] into ''[[Madeline (1998 film)|Madeline]]''. Scotch Marmo received story credit for the film, which was released in 1998, and was directed by [[Daisy von Scherler Mayer]] and starred [[Frances MacDormand]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123987/|title = Madeline|website = IMDB}}</ref> In 1998, [[Garry Marshall]] brought in Scotch Marmo to do a production rewrite on ''[[The Other Sister]].'' Released in 1999, the film starred [[Juliette Lewis]] and [[Diane Keaton]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123209/|title = The Other Sister|website = IMDB}}</ref> ===2000s=== From 1998 to 2002, Scotch Marmo attempted to get an original screenwriting project off the ground as her first feature-length directorial project. ''When Fritz Left Kate'' was developed by various producers, including [[James L. Brooks]], who saw it as a vehicle for [[Woody Harrelson]] and [[Tea Leoni]], but the film was not realized. In 2000, [[Castle Rock Entertainment]] and [[Playtone Company]] hired Scotch-Marmo to adapt [[Chris Van Allsburg]]'s children's classic ''[[The Polar Express|Polar Express]]'', to be directed by [[Rob Reiner]] and to star [[Tom Hanks]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://variety.com/2000/film/columns/rock-rolls-reiner-into-polar-helm-1117788529/|title = Rock rolls Reiner into 'Polar' helm|date = October 30, 2000|website = Variety|last = Fleming|first = Michael}}</ref> [[The Polar Express (film)|Polar Express]], released in 2004, was ultimately directed by [[Robert Zemeckis]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338348/|title = Polar Express|website = IMDB}}</ref> Scotch Marmo was engaged in 2005 to rewrite [[Bill Kelly (writer)|Bill Kelly]]'s ''[[Enchanted (2007 film)|Enchanted]].''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Enchanted Movie Script|url=https://www.hollywoodscriptshop.com/enchanted_movie_script.html|access-date=2021-03-07|website=www.hollywoodscriptshop.com}}</ref> The film, which was released in 2007, was directed by [[Kevin Lima]], and starred [[Amy Adams]] and [[Patrick Dempsey]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461770/|title = Enchanted|website = IMDB}}</ref> In 2005-2008, Scotch Marmo worked on another unproduced project, ''Winged Boy'', which was to have been directed by [[Luis Mandoki]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://movieweb.com/luis-mandoki-directing-the-winged-boy/|title = Luis Mandoki Directing 'The Winged Boy'|date = October 3, 2005|website = Movieweb|author = Brian}}</ref> In 2009-2010, Scotch Marmo collaborated with leading Pakistani director [[Sabiha Sumar]] ([[Khamosh Pani]]/[[Silent Waters (film)|Silent Waters]]) to write a screenplay originally entitled ''Rafina''. Set against the backdrop of the [[Benazir Bhutto]] assassination, Rafina is a young woman from the Karachi slums who dreams of becoming a model.<ref>{{Cite web|url =http://www.vidhifilms.net/features.htm|title =Good Morning Karachi|website =Vidhi Films|url-status =dead|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20141209034347/http://www.vidhifilms.net/features.htm|archive-date =2014-12-09}}</ref> The film was shot on location in [[Pakistan]] in 2010 with real-life model [[Amna Ilyas]] in the lead role, and released internationally in 2013 as ''[[Good Morning Karachi]]''. Scotch Marmo also served as producer on the film.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1842446/|title = Good Morning Karachi|website = IMDB}}</ref> ===2010s=== In 2013, Scotch Marmo returned to Hollywood and was enrolled by the Joe Roth Company and [[Universal Pictures]], as part of a team with her former student [[Soman Chainani]], to adapt Chainani's debut novel, ''[[The School for Good and Evil]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://deadline.com/2013/05/universal-makes-seven-figure-deal-for-the-school-for-good-and-evil-507177/|title = Universal Makes Seven-Figure Deal For 'The School For Good And Evil'|date = May 23, 2013|website = Deadline|last = Fleming|first = Mike Jr.}}</ref> The book is the first part of a six-book series.<ref>{{Cite web|title = The School for Good and Evil|url = http://schoolforgoodandevil.com/|website = schoolforgoodandevil.com}}</ref> ''The School for Good and Evil'' is a Netflix production, to be directed by Paul Feig, and starring [[Charlize Theron]] and [[Kerry Washington]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-05-28|title=Paul Feig to Direct 'School for Good and Evil' Adaptation for Netflix|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/paul-feig-direct-school-good-evil-adaptation-netflix-1296168|access-date=2021-03-07|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en}}</ref> Recently, Scotch Marmo completed ''The Murderous Life of Bruno Enzo'' a film loosely based on her grandfather. She is also executive producer of a compilation film of four short films written and directed by young Rwandan filmmakers.<ref name="artscolumbia" /> ==Academia== Scotch Marmo frequently teaches screenwriting at the Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts, where she has been an adjunct faculty member off and on since 2002.<ref name="artscolumbia" /> Scotch Marmo has also taught screenwriting at [[Sarah Lawrence College]] and [[La Femis]] in Paris.<ref>{{Cite web|url =http://www.femis.fr/IMG/pdf/la_femis_international_programs_2013-2014.pdf|title =International Partnership and Programs|website =La Femis|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150518094231/http://www.femis.fr/IMG/pdf/la_femis_international_programs_2013-2014.pdf|archive-date =2015-05-18|url-status =dead}}</ref> In addition to Chainani, Scotch Marmo's former students include [[Phil Johnston (filmmaker)|Phil Johnston]] (screenwriter, ''[[Wreck-It Ralph]]''), [[Jennifer Lee (filmmaker)|Jennifer Lee]] (screenwriter and co-director, ''[[Frozen (2013 film)|Frozen]]''), and Lakshmi Sundaram (television writer, ''[[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]]''). Scotch Marmo has frequently served as a Creative Advisor for the Sundance Institute, mentoring developing filmmakers in labs held in [[Provo, Utah]] and [[Mumbai|Mumbai, India]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://history.sundance.org/people/3972|title = Archives|website = Sundance Institute}}</ref> She has also served as a Mentor for the [[Maisha Film Lab]], founded by Indian filmmaker [[Mira Nair]], and worked with developing filmmakers in [[Kigali|Kigali, Rwanda]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dinter-Gottlieb|first=Gail|date=June 9, 2014|title=Maisha: "If We Don't Tell Our Stories, No One Will"|url=http://gaildintergottlieb.com/maisha-if-we-dont-tell-our-stories-no-one-will/|url-status=live|website=I Spy: The World of Gail Dinter Gottlieb}}</ref> == Screenplays == * ''[[Once Around]]'' (1991) * ''[[Hook (film)|Hook]]'' (1991) * ''[[Only You (1994 film)|Only You]]'' (uncredited) (1992) * ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]'' (uncredited) (1993) * ''[[Madeline (1998 film)|Madeline]]'' (1998) * ''[[The Other Sister]]'' (uncredited) (1999) * ''[[The Polar Express (film)|Polar Express]]'' (uncredited) (2004) * ''[[Enchanted (film)|Enchanted]]'' (uncredited) (2007) * ''[[Good Morning Karachi]]'' (2013) * ''[[The School for Good and Evil (film)|The School for Good and Evil]]'' (''2022'') ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Marmo, Malia Scotch}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:20th-century American screenwriters]] [[Category:20th-century American women writers]] [[Category:21st-century American screenwriters]] [[Category:21st-century American women writers]] [[Category:American women screenwriters]] [[Category:Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni]] [[Category:Bunker Hill Community College alumni]] [[Category:Columbia University School of the Arts alumni]] [[Category:People from Wakefield, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Screenwriters from Massachusetts]] [[Category:Screenwriting instructors]]'