Ben Ripley is an American screenwriter best known for writing the

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'' directed by

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. Ripley is a graduate of Stanford University and the

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History

Ripley sold his

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for ''Source Code'' in 2007 to

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. It was ranked as one of the top unproduced screenplays in the annual Hollywood black list. In an interview with the

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, Ripley talked about his script and the uncertainty over its production:

Yeah, it was agony. And I wrote it on spec. I wasn't certain it would ever see the light of day. One thing that kept me going though was that I had a suspicion that if I got this right, it could really open a new level for my writing career. At that point, I'd spent about four years doing studio rewrites on horror movies that were never getting made. I knew that if I showed up with another spec script, I'd have to show up with something very different that took chances. That motivated me to keep going until it seemed right.

Screenplays

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'' (2014) *''

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'' (2017)

References

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