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Scott Kosar is an American
screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...
whose films include '' The Machinist'', the 2003 remake of the classic horror film ''
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'', and the 2005 remake of ''
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''. In June 2006, he was presented with the Distinguished Achievement in Screenwriting Award by the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Kosar was appointed the Hunter/Zakin screenwriting chair at UCLA for 2009–2010.


Career

Kosar wrote the script for '' The Machinist'' while attending the graduate screenwriting program at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. The movie became notorious for actor
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's dramatic weight loss (Bale dropped his weight to 120 pounds for the film) and was described by Stephen Holden of ''
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'' as "one of the few movies to scale the barrier between chilly fantasy and authentic cinematic nightmare." During the years that it took for ''The Machinist'' to be produced, the script attracted the attention of producer-director
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, who hired Kosar to write ''
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' is a 1974 American independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. The film stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, ...
'' remake. It was directed by
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. ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' was released in North America on October 17, 2003, in 3,018 theaters.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Release
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It grossed $10,620,000 on its opening day and concluded its North America opening weekend with $28,094,014, ranking No. 1 at the box office.
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The film opened in various other countries and grossed $26,500,000, while the North American gross stands at $80,571,655, bringing the worldwide gross to $107,071,655.
The film's budget was $9.5 million, making it the highest-grossing film of the franchise even when adjusted for inflation. The box office success of that remake led Kosar to another collaboration with Bay's company with the remake of ''
The Amityville Horror ''The Amityville Horror'' is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1977. It is also the basis of a series of films released from 1979 onward. The book is based on the claims of paranormal experiences by the Lutz family b ...
'', directed by Andrew Douglas. The film grossed $65,233,369 domestically and $42,813,762 in foreign markets for a total worldwide box office of $108,047,131. Ruthe Stein of the ''
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'' thought "the truly shocking thing about the new version is that it's not bloody awful... The decision to use minimal computer-generated effects, made for monetary rather than artistic reasons, works to ''Amityville''s advantage. It retains the cheesy look of the 1979 original, pure schlock not gussied up to appear to be anything else." In February 2010, he began re-writing a ''
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'' prequel entitled ''Vlad'' for
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. That same year, he wrote the remake of '' The Crazies'', directed by
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. He has written and served as a supervising producer on the television series '' Bates Motel'', a prequel to '' Psycho'', as well as on the
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horror series '' The Haunting of Hill House''.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kosar, Scott Living people UCLA Film School alumni American male screenwriters American television writers American horror writers American male television writers 21st-century American male writers Screenwriting instructors Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American screenwriters