David Scarpa is an American screenwriter. He is best known for writing the screenplays to ''

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'', the 2008 remake of ''

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'' and ''

All the Money in the World ''All the Money in the World'' is a 2017 biographical crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Scarpa. Based on John Pearson's 1995 book ''Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Pau ...

'', about the

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kidnapping, which was released in December 2017. He currently resides in

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Early life

He was born in

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, and raised in Tennessee and Connecticut before attending

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's film program.

Career

Scarpa began writing features. In 2005, he began developing a remake of ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. Scarpa felt everything about the original film was still relevant, but changed the allegory from nuclear war to environmental damage because "the specifics of owwe now have the capability to destroy ourselves have changed." Scarpa noted the recent events of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 informed his mindset when writing the screenplay. He scrapped Klaatu's speech at the conclusion of the story because "audiences today are nilling to tolerate that. People don't want to be preached to about the environment. We tried to avoid having our alien looking out over the garbage in the lake and crying a silent tear rom_the_1970s_''Keep_America_Beautiful''_ads.html" ;"title="Keep_America_Beautiful.html" ;"title="rom the 1970s ''Keep America Beautiful">rom the 1970s ''Keep America Beautiful'' ads">Keep_America_Beautiful.html" ;"title="rom the 1970s ''Keep America Beautiful">rom the 1970s ''Keep America Beautiful'' ads" He served as the co-showrunner for Amazon Prime Video series ''The Man in the High Castle (TV series), The Man in the High Castle'' season 4.

Upcoming projects

After writing ''

'' for director Ridley Scott, he will reteam with the director on two more projects: ''

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'', a historical epic centred on

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, and the sequel to '' Gladiator''. He is also writing ''Cleopatra'' for Sony Pictures Entertainment, with Denis Villeneuve directing. In a 2017 interview with ''

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'', Scarpa described the film as being "a two-hour, lean, mean political thriller, full of assassinations, etc.", and that it will be "going the opposite direction from the way we think that movie is going to go." Scarpa is also writing the HBO miniseries ''Londongrad'', starring

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as Alexander Litvinenko, who died of polonium-210 poisoning in November 2006.

Filmography

References

External links

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