Total
Recall is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired
anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip
K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real
memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though
he's got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) whom he loves, the mind-trip sounds
like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as
a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly
wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police –
controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston) – there is no one Quaid can
trust, except possibly a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) working for the head of
the underground resistance (Bill Nighy). The line between fantasy and
reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid
discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate. The film
is directed by Len Wiseman. The screenplay is by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback
and the screen story is by Ronald Shusett & Dan O’Bannon and Jon Povill.
The producers are Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe.
Columbia Pictures presents an
Original Film production, a film by Len Wiseman, Total Recall. Starring Colin
Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho, and Bill
Nighy. Directed by Len Wiseman. Produced by Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe. Screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Mark
Bomback. Screen Story by Ronald Shusett
& Dan O’Bannon and Jon Povill.
Inspired by the Short Story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” by
Philip K. Dick. Executive Producers are Ric
Kidney and Len Wiseman. Director of
Photography is Paul Cameron, ASC.
Production Designer is Patrick Tatopoulos. Editor is Christian Wagner. Costume Designer is Sanja Milković Hays. Music by Harry Gregson-Williams. Credits are not final.
ABOUT THE FILM
Total Recall’s re-imagined journey to the silver screen began in
2008 when producer Toby Jaffe was perusing a bookstore, looking through the
sci-fi shelf. “I was looking at all the books I read as a young guy, and I
picked up a Philip K. Dick anthology and read the short story “We Can Remember
It for You Wholesale,” he recalls. “I remembered it was a great sort of
wish-fulfillment fantasy.”
Of course, Dick’s story had been adapted for the screen once before, in
1990, under the title Total Recall. Jaffe began thinking that the time might be
right to revisit Dick’s story for the screen and brought his idea to Moritz,
who read the short story and re-watched the 1990 film.
“We just felt like we could make a new version of the original story,” Moritz
says. “By reimagining the story, we thought
that there was so much more to the characters and story that we could
investigate. That felt fresh to us.”
The reason is that Dick’s story feels as
cutting edge as when it was first published in the 1960s. “The genius of the story is this idea that
you can implant a memory into somebody’s head and when they wake up, they will
feel they’ve lived it,” says Jaffe. The
set-up opens up a treasure trove of questions: what is memory? How do we know what really happened in the
past?
“That concept of Rekall, as Philip K. Dick
created it in his story, is what made me want to direct this movie,” says Len
Wiseman, who is best known for directing the first two Underworld films and Live
Free and Die Hard. Wiseman also has an art department background, having
worked on such big budget sci-fi hits as Independence
Day and Stargate. Wiseman’s take
on the film was to delve deeper into the main character by creating a hybrid of
a psychological thriller and an action film that just happens to be set in the
future.
“Len understands this kind of movie better
than any filmmaker working today,” says Moritz.
“We were lucky enough that he wanted to do it, and we were kind of off
to the races really quickly with him.”
Instead of events occurring on Mars, Wiseman
keeps the action on a far-in-the-future earth dominated by two nation states –
United Federation of Britain and The Colony. Like Dick’s story, Wiseman’s says,
“There’s a whole other kind of experience on Earth with which to take this
character.”
To play the central character of Quaid,
Wiseman cast Colin Farrell. “It was very important that Quaid is just an
ordinary guy,” Jaffe says. “Colin just brings a real genius to him as an
actor. There’s a likeability onscreen that
you just feel he’s a real guy who could be a real factory worker.”
“It’s a common story, a man who feels that he
isn’t living the life he should be living – a man experiencing some discontent
with his lot in life,” says Farrell.
“But he gets a rude awakening, which is that he really isn’t living the
life he should be living. Quaid has no
idea who he is, beyond a deeply cellular or emotional level. The whole movie is him trying to figure out
who is the real Quaid.”
“I really wanted to get more involved in
Quaid’s experience,” Wiseman explains. “I mean, imagine: you wake up, you go
about your life and you inherently feel like a good guy… All of a sudden,
everybody around you starts telling you that you’re a bad guy. What do you do?”
With that in mind, Farrell approached the role
as a battle between emotional and intellectual and tried to maintain that
balance. “It brings up issues of
identity, ego, and super-ego – it’s fun to wade into that psychological pond a
bit,” he says.
The filmmakers were next faced with the
challenge of casting two strong female roles: Lori and Melina.
To portray Quaid’s wife, Lori, the seemingly
loving wife who turns ruthless killer, the filmmakers brought on Kate
Beckinsale, Wiseman’s real-life wife of seven years. The two previously worked
together on the Underworld films
Beckinsale said she was particularly attracted
to this project because of the role’s duality. "I've never played a bad
guy before. I've always been on the side of truth and justice,” she says. “But the thing is, my character thinks she is
on the side of truth and justice. That’s the great thing about this movie – you
never know who’s on the right side. Also, there's a slightly maniacal side of
her – she's slightly out of control, and that's always fun for an actor to
play."
The other woman in Quaid’s life, Melina, first
appears to him in his recurring nightmares, and later, in the flesh, to help
him re-discover his previous life that was erased.
To portray Melina, the filmmakers needed an
actress that could take on the difficult physicality of the role as well as bear
some resemblance to Beckinsale. Wiseman brought on talented actress Jessica
Biel.
Biel was attracted to the part by the themes
of the story. “We’re completely tapping
into what Philip K. Dick’s story is really about: identity issues,
relationships,” Biel says. “It’s really
a tragic love story between Melina and Quaid.
He doesn’t remember her…He doesn’t remember that they love each other,
that they are passionately connected. That’s what interested me.”
To portray the ruthless Cohaagen, chancellor
of the UFB, the filmmakers brought in Bryan Cranston, who has won three
straight Emmy Awards and been nominated for three Golden Globes for his leading
performance on the television series “Breaking Bad.”
“Bryan has an intensity and an eloquence and
an edge to his personality that comes across on screen,” says Jaffe. “It’s why
he’s in such demand as an actor.”
Cranston explains that he never saw his
character as a “mustache-twirling villain. The character of Cohaagen to me was
interesting to play because I wanted to present a guy who does have this need,
this absolute desire and thirst to be in control,” he says. “At the same time,
he has a tremendous fondness for Colin Farrell’s character, and I wanted to
play him like a father figure, to treat him as if he were a rebellious teenager
who just needs some tough love.”
Award-winning actor Bill Nighy joins the cast
as Matthias, the leader of the UFB resistance. Nighy, who has worked with
Wiseman on the four Underworld films,
said it was the director that initially attracted him to Recall.
“I like him enormously,” Nighy says. “He’s
always made great movies, and I loved his Die
Hard movie. But then I read the
script and it’s rip-roaring. I read a lot of sci-fi, and I liked the ideas
involved in this project.”
As filming got underway, Wiseman’s vision for
the film was to create a realistic environment on set. “He wanted to make it as
real as possible, because he feels it looks better,” says Jaffe. “The actors
perform better when they’re hanging off of a car as opposed to hanging off a
block on the stage. We built practical versions of our futuristic cars and shot
on real locations.”
Coming from a practical background, it was
important to Wiseman to construct as many sets as possible, rather than create
them in the computer. “People just assume you’re going to go the CG route,” he
says. “There’s a lot of CG in this movie, because there’s certain things you
just simply can’t do, but if you can make it real, then I try to do it. I love to build it and draw it, create it and
shoot it. When it’s real, people get
very excited.”
A good example is the China Fall set – a large
elevator going through the earth.
Production designer Patrick Tatopoulous designed the set. “I’ve never seen a concept like that in a
movie before – a gigantic elevator going through the earth,” he explains. “So
that allowed me to do something really fresh and new. It’s actually designed
around the concept of a 747 airplane, so it feels familiar or real to people watching
the movie. When you’re watching the
movie, I want it to feel relatable – not like you’re just watching a movie.”
Jaffe was blown away when he saw the completed
product. “I remember reading the script and thinking, ‘Oh my God! There’s an
elevator that goes through the core of the earth! How are we ever going to do
this,’” says Jaffe. “But once Len and Patrick got involved, and we had seen the
drawings, it became more tangible. But
it really wasn’t until we got on the stage and saw the incredible sets that it
all hit home. They’re just amazing.”
Even when VFX would have to be employed – as
with the hover craft – Wiseman used a mix of the practical and the virtual when
he could. “We actually built the hover
cars and fixed them on top of street racing cars. The actors sit up top and the drivers are
down below,” Jaffe explains. “I like
that better than the actors sitting in a shell on green screen. We actually had them racing down the
street. You see the vibration and you
have the actors’ performances reflecting the reality of it at every turn.”
Farrell recalls the experience: “We had two
cars slamming into each other, and I must say, I wasn’t at my butchest those
days,” he jokes. “But I’m glad they did it this way. It was great fun, and
there are some real reactions they got in there. There is definitely a texture
of reality and sound and sky that they couldn’t have put in later.”
ABOUT THE CAST
A native of
Ireland, COLIN FARRELL (Quaid)
continues to turn heads in Hollywood.
In 2009 Farrell won a Golden Globe for his role in In Bruges and has currently reteamed with director Martin McDonough
for the CBS films’ Seven
Psychopaths. The film centers
around a screenwriter (Farrell) who struggles to find the handle on his script,
called Seven Psychopaths. He
gets drawn into the dog napping escapades of his friends (played by Sam
Rockwell and Christopher Walken). Once the beloved Shih Tzu owned by a
psychopathic gangster goes missing, the screenwriter finds himself fueled with
all the drama he needs for his screenplay, if he can stay alive long enough to
write it all down.
In Spring 2012
he will start the independent film Dead
Man Down starring opposite Noomi Rapace for director Neils Arden. The
action film will be produced by Neal H. Moritz and is set to shoot in New York.
He recently
wrapped the Peter Weir film The Way Back
starring opposite Ed Harris and Jim Sturgess.
The film tells the story of a group of soldiers who engineer a grueling
escape from a Siberian gulang in 1942.
He also completed William
Monahan’s feature London Boulevard based on the bestselling book by Ken Bruen about a
South London criminal, newly released from prison, who resists the temptation
to go back to a gangster life by taking a job looking after a reclusive young
actress played by Kiera Knightley
He was recently
seen in Fright Night; the Warner
Bros. comedy Horrible Bosses; and Ondine, by Irish director Neil Jordan,
which revolves around an Irish fisherman who discovers a woman he thinks is a
mermaid. His other films include Gavin
O’Conner’s Pride and Glory; Woody
Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream; “Miami Vice”; Oliver Stone’s Alexander; Terrence Malick’s The New World; Ask the Dust, based on the novel by John Fante; opposite Al Pacino
in The Recruit; A Home at the End of the World, based on the Michael Cunningham
novel, and two roles in Joel Schumacher's
films Phone Booth and Tigerland. Other film credits include Minority Report, Daredevil, American Outlaws,
SWAT, and Intermission.
Born and raised
in Castleknock in the Republic of Ireland, Colin is the son of former football
player, Eamon Farrell and nephew of Tommy Farrell. Both Tommy and Eamon Farrell
played for the Irish Football Club, Shamrock Rovers in the 1960's
It was
Farrell’s early teenage ambition to follow in his father and uncle's footsteps;
however, his interest soon turned towards acting and he joined the Gaity School
of Drama in Dublin. Before completing his course, Colin landed a starring role
in Dierde Purcell's miniseries "Falling for a Dancer," a starring
role in the BBC series "Ballykissangel," and a featured role in Tim
Roth's directorial debut, "The War Zone," followed soon after
He currently
lives in Los Angeles
English actress KATE BECKINSALE
(Lori) is revealing herself to be one of films’ most versatile and charismatic
actresses. She first gained notice in
Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing and then subsequently appeared
as the heroine of John Schlesinger’s Cold Comfort Farm, Whit Stillman’s The
Last Days of Disco opposite Chloe Sevigny, Jonathan Kaplan’s Brokedown
Palace opposite Claire Danes and in the British comedy Shooting Fish. Additional film credits include Haunted
opposite Aidan Quinn, and Manuel Fleche’s Mary Louise ou la permission.
In 2001, Beckinsale starred opposite Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett in
Disney’s epic Pearl Harbor. She
starred opposite John Cusack in Serendipity, opposite Matthew
McConaughey and Gary Oldham in Tiptoes and opposite Christian Bale and
Frances McDormand in the ensemble drama Laurel Canyon. Film appearances
include starring opposite Hugh Jackman in Van Helsing and starring in
the hit vampire tales Underworld and
sequel Underworld: Evolution
for Sony’s Screen Gems. Beckinsale also starred as screen legend ‘Ava
Gardner’ in Martin Scorcese’s The
Aviator, in the Screen Gems thriller Vacancy
opposite Luke Wilson and the comedy
blockbuster Click opposite Adam Sandler. Recent films include the
independent drama Snow Angels opposite Sam Rockwell, directed by David
Gordon Green and the independent drama Fragments
(aka Winged Creatures) opposite Forest Whitaker and Dakota Fanning,
Her television appearances include playing
the title role in A&E’s Emma and in One Against the Wind for
Hallmark Films. On the stage, she has appeared in “Clocks & Whistles”,
“Sweetheart,” and the British National Touring production of “The Seagull.”
In 2009, Beckinsale starred in the dark
comedy Everybody’s Fine opposite Robert De Niro and Drew
Barrymore. That same year, she also starred in the independent political
drama Nothing But The Truth opposite Alan Alda and Matt Dillon, which
garnered her great recognition for her accolade worthy performance.
Beckinsale was most recently seen in two hit films: the suspense thriller Contraband, opposite Mark Wahlberg, and Underworld
Awakening, the fourth film in the Screen Gems franchise.
JESSICA BIEL (Melina) most recently starred in Garry
Marshall’s romantic comedies New Year’s
Eve and Valentine’s Day and in the action adventure The A-Team. She will soon be seen in the thriller The Tall Man and the sports comedy Playing the Field. She will next be
starring in the film Alfred Hitchcock and
the Making of Psycho opposite Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, and Scarlett
Johansson.
Biel previously received
critical acclaim for her performance in the thriller The Illusionist. For her work in the film, she won several festival
awards, including the Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award at the Newport
Beach Film Festival, the Shining Star Award at the Maui Film Festival and the
Rising Star Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
She was also recently seen in
the independent feature Easy Virtue,
which premiered to rave reviews at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival before
screening at the Rome, London and Tribeca Film Festivals. She also starred in
the worldwide hit comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.
Biel's additional film credits
include Lee Tamahori's Next, Elizabethtown, written and directed by
Cameron Crowe, Rob Cohen's Stealth, Blade: Trinity, the hit remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Summer Catch.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
LEN WISEMAN (Director / Executive Producer) started
his career in the art department on blockbuster special effects features such
as Godzilla, Men in Black and Independence
Day. He wrote and directed both Underworld
and Underworld Evolution and
directed Bruce Willis in the action hit Live
Free or Die Hard.
Most recently Wiseman directed the “Hawaii Five-O” pilot and produced
the latest installment to the successful franchise, Underworld: Awakening
KURT
WIMMER (Screenplay by) is an American screenwriter and film director. Wimmer
attended the University of South Florida and graduated with a BFA degree in Art
History. He moved to Los Angeles where he worked for twelve years as a
screenwriter, adapting works such as Sphere,
starring Dustin Hoffman, and The Thomas
Crown Affair, starring Pierce Brosnan.
In
2002, Wimmer made his directorial debut, Equilibrium,
starring Christian Bale and Emily Watson.
Wimmer also wrote and directed Ultraviolet, starring Milla Jovovich, and screenplay credit for Street Kings, starring Keanu Reeves and
Forest Whitaker. His most recent film credits
include Law Abiding Citizen, starring
Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx, for director F. Gary Gray, and Salt, starring Angelina Jolie.
In addition to Total Recall, MARK BOMBACK (Screenplay) produced work includes Unstoppable, Race to Witch Mountain, Live
Free or Die Hard, Deception and Godsend. He recently completed work on
the screenplays for The Art of
Racing in the Rain (Universal) and Shadow
Divers (20th Century Fox), as well as revisions on The Wolverine for
director James Mangold. Mark also teaches a course in screenwriting at his
alma mater, Wesleyan University. He lives in New York with his wife and four
children.
Ronald Shusett’s (story by) science fiction, action and
horror films have reached worldwide grosses of over one and a half billion
dollars. He was executive producer of Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise’s Minority
Report, which alone grossed $358 million worldwide. He also received above
the title co-presenter billing. The film was based on a short story by Philip
K. Dick, whose work was also the basis for Shusett’s trendsetting and mega-box
office hit Total Recall (1990), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and
Sharon Stone, which he produced, co-wrote the screenplay for and received above
the title co-presenter billing. Shusett also co-wrote the original story,
executive produced, and received above the title co-presenter billing for
Ridley Scott’s Alien.
In addition to the Oscars® won for the innovative special effects by
both Alien and Total Recall (1990), Shusett’s movies also were
honored by The Academy of Science Fiction, Horror And Fantasy, for which
Shusett personally received a Saturn Award for Best Horror Film (Alien)
and also a second Saturn Award several years later for Best Science Fiction
film (Total Recall (1990)).
Also, Shusett has worked with, in addition to Ridley Scott and Steven
Spielberg some of the other major box office and artistic director talents of
this era, including Paul Verhoeven, David Cronenberg, and Andrew Davis.
Among his other films which he has either executive produced or
produced, and co-written, are Freejack, starring Anthony Hopkins and
Mick Jagger, King Kong Lives (a sequel to the original), and Dead and
Buried, which went on to become a cult classic in the contemporary horror
film genre worldwide.
On Alien Vs. Predator (2004), which was the fifth Alien
sequel, Shusett received a story by credit (shared) in addition to his “Alien
Characters Created By” credit (shared). Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
box office gross was $170 million worldwide and was released on DVD in January
2005.
DAN
O’BANNON’s (story by) credits include Dark Star (1974) (screen story / screenplay), Alien (1979) (screenplay/story), Dead & Buried (1981) (screenplay), Blue Thunder (1983) (screenplay), The Return of the Living Dead (1985) (director / screenplay), Lifeforce (1985)(screenplay), Invaders from Mars (1986) (screenplay),Total Recall (1990) (screen story / screenplay), The Resurrected (1992) (director),Screamers (1995) (screenplay), and Alien Vs. Predator (2004) (screen story). His book, Dan
O’Bannon’s Guide to Screenplay Structure, will be published in the spring
of 2013. O’Bannon died in 2009.
Known primarily for his work on Star Trek – The Motion Picture
and “Total Recall (1990), Jon
Povill (story by) has written feature scripts for Universal and
Allied Artists Pictures as well as projects for, or in partnership with,
several industry luminaries -- including four-time Oscar® winner Robert Wise,
Emanuel L. Wolf, Robert Watts, and Gene Roddenberry. He has written
numerous television episodes and developed pilots with Fox, Kushner-Locke, and
legendary TV producers Fred Silverman and Lee Rich.
Povill broke into the business shortly after receiving his MFA from
UCLA, landing the coveted job of Story Editor on the fabled “Star Trek Phase
II” series that ultimately led into Star Trek – The Motion Picture, on
which he was the associate producer. He is also credited with the
screen story for Total Recall (1990) and was an integral part of the
popular series “Sliders,” working as the Executive script consultant for the
first season and writer-producer for the second season.
In 1952, Philip K. Dick (Inspired by the Short Story “We Can
Remember It for You Wholesale” by) began writing professionally,
eventually publishing 45 novels and more than 120 short stories.
He won numerous awards for his
work, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel of 1962 for The Man in the
High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science
Fiction Novel of 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. His work
has been adapted into such highly acclaimed films as Blade Runner, Total Recall (1990), Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and The
Adjustment Bureau. Electric Shepherd Productions, the
entertainment branch of the Philip K. Dick Estate, continues to develop film
and television projects based on his work.
Since his death at the age of
53, he has gone on to be recognized as one of America's most celebrated and
influential science fiction writers. In 2007, Philip K. Dick became the first
sci-fi author to be inducted into the Library of America.
NEAL H. MORITZ (Producer), founder of Original Film, has been
producing feature film and television for over three decades. His latest release, Columbia’s action-comedy 21 Jump Street,
opened in March to $xxx in its opening weekend.
Prior to that, his film Fast 5,
the fifth installation of The Fast and
the Furious franchise, brought the return of Vin Diesel, Paul Walker,
Jordana Brewster and Tyrese and introduces Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to the
team. The film opened to over $86
million and grossed over $626 million worldwide.
Moritz is currently in post production on Warner Bros.’ Jack
the Giant Killer directed by Bryan Singer and Universal Pictures’ R.I.P.D. starring Ryan Reynolds, Jeff
Bridges and Kevin Bacon
2012 will be a busy year for the Original Film banner. Production on
the sixth and seventh installments of the Fast and Furious franchise
begin this summer as well as the IM Global-financed Dead Man Down starring
Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace, directed by Neils Arden Opvel (The Girl With
the Dragon Tattoo Swedish trilogy). Summit Entertainment’s remake of Highlander
is also slated to begin production this year with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
helming.
With over 40 films
to Moritz’s credit, past titles include The
Change-Up, Battle: Los Angeles, The
Green Hornet, The Fast and Furious series,
I Am Legend, XXX, S.W.A.T., Made of Honor, Gridiron Gang, Bounty Hunter,
Evan Almighty, Sweet Home Alabama, Click, Vantage Point, Out of Time, Blue
Streak, Cruel Intentions, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Skulls, Volcano,
Urban Legend, and Juice. Original
Film’s box office is north of 2 billion worldwide.
Moritz’s television
credits include the HBO movie The Rat Pack, which earned 11 Emmy
nominations, the drama series Prison Break for Twentieth Century Fox,
and Showtime’s highly acclaimed series The Big C, starring Laura Linney,
who won a Golden Globe in 2011 for her role of Cathy.
A graduate of UCLA
with a degree in Economics, Moritz went on to get a graduate degree from the
Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing Program at the University of Southern
California.
TOBY JAFFE (Producer) is currently a producer at
Original Film, one of the most prolific producers of films in the industry
today. The company has produced such blockbuster hits as The Fast and The
Furious series, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Sweet Home Alabama,
Vantage Point, Prom Night, The Green Hornet, Battle Los Angeles, and, most
recently, 21 Jump Street. In 2012, the company will release Total
Recall and RIPD.
Prior to joining Original, Jaffe spent three years at MGM Studios as an
Executive Vice President, Production. During his tenure at MGM, he supervised
the production of numerous films, including the hits The Pink Panther
starring Steve Martin, Walking Tall starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson,
and The Amityville Horror.
Before joining MGM, Jaffe ran his own independent production company and
collaborated with some of Hollywood’s most celebrated talent, including
Angelina Jolie, Mark Wahlberg, and Martin Lawrence, producing such recognized
films as Rock Star, Life of Something Like It, and the hit comedy
Blue Streak.
Previously, he served as President of Production for The IndieProd
Company, a joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Japan
Satellite Broadcasting. During his tenure, he worked with such talent as
Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Kenneth Branagh, and Sam Raimi while
supervising such films as The Quick and the Dead, Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein and Universal Soldier.
Jaffe began his entertainment career as a talent agent at The Leading
Artists Agency. After the company merged to become United Talent Agency,
he advanced to head up the motion picture literary department and represented
writers, producers and directors, among them Barry Sonnenfeld, Curtis Hanson,
Rob Cohen, Boaz Yakin, Frank Darabont and Joss Whedon. In that capacity,
he additionally was responsible for bringing together many of the creative and
financial elements which led to the success of such films as Twins, Point
Break, Class Action, The Rookie and Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Jaffe is a graduate of Harvard University and lives in Santa Monica with
his wife and two children.
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