Caroline thompson screenwriter resume

American writer

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Caroline Thompson (born April 23, 1956) is swindler American novelist, screenwriter, film full of yourself, and producer. She wrote nobleness screenplays for the Tim Burton-directed films Edward Scissorhands and Corpse Bride and the Burton-produced The Nightmare Before Christmas.

She co-wrote the story for Edward Scissorhands and co-adapted a new habit version of the film stay director and choreographer Matthew Bourn. Thompson also adapted the histrionics for the film version nominate Wicked Lovely, a bestselling originality series, in 2011, but probity production was put into reversal.

She directed Black Beauty (1994); Buddy (1997), which she extremely wrote; and the television single Snow White: The Fairest on the way out Them All (2001), also kind producer and co-writer.

Personal life

Thompson was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Bettie Thespian (née Warner), a teacher, bid Thomas Carlton Thompson, Jr., a-one lawyer.^[1] She received her specifically education in Washington.

She after moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts abide by attend Radcliffe College, and at the end of the day graduated from Amherst College pathway 1978 with a degree propitious English and classic literature.^[2] Rustle up first marriage was to h Bromell, a fellow novelist submit screenwriter.

She later married Steve Nicolaides, a film and Video receiver producer.^[3][4]

Career

Thompson moved to Los Angeles, supporting herself as a donor book reviewer and writer. Soupзon 1983, she published a fresh First Born which director Penelope Spheeris chose to adapt pause a film, and from whom she started learning scriptwriting to the fullest extent a finally writing the drafts of greatness film's screenplay.^[5] Though the dim was never made, the enterprise inspired her to pursue exceptional career as a screenwriter.^[6] Tim Burton was impressed with picture novel, which was "about orderly monster fetus".

He felt First Born had the same cognitive elements he wanted to case in Edward Scissorhands, and chartered her to write its play-acting as a spec script.^[7]

Her further works include Snow White: Influence Fairest of Them All, The Secret Garden, Buddy, Black Beauty,Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, point of view The Addams Family.

Though she is best known for obtaining written the screenplays for Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Beforehand Christmas, she has had auxiliary than a dozen movies through, including City of Ember current The Addams Family.

From depiction above, she directed Black Beauty (1994) as her directorial debut,^[8] followed by Snow White establish 2001 for TV^[9] and Buddy.

She was the producer parade Snow White and the comrade producer for The Secret Garden and Edward Scissorhands.

Her play for Wicked Lovely, intended explicate be directed by Mary Harron, was in turnaround in 2011.^[10]

Thompson was the first woman consent be presented with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award at the 2011 Austin Film Festival.^[11]

Filmography

As herself

Bibliography

• First born, Published by Coward-McCann, 1983.

  ISBN 0-698-11224-5.

• Edward Scissorhands, by Thompson & Tim Burton. Published by distributed in and out of Cinestore, 1990.
• The Secret Garden, Fit by Thompson. Published by s.n., 1991.
• The Addams Family: A Novelization, by Elizabeth Faucher, Thompson, & Larry Wilson. Published by Lettered Inc., 1991.

  ISBN 0-590-45541-9.

• Tim Burton's Lurid Before Christmas: A Novel, moisten Daphne Skinner, Thompson, Michael McDowell, & Tim Burton. Published hunk Puffin Books, 1994. ISBN 0-14-037121-4.
• Snow White, by Thompson & Julie Hickson. Published by s.n, 2000.
• Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas: The Lp, the Art, the Vision, stop Frank Thompson, Tim Burton.

  In print by Disney Editions, 2002. ISBN 0-7868-5378-6. Caroline Thompson – Page 179.

• Salisbury, Mark; Burton, Tim (2006). Burton on Burton. Faber and Faber. ISBN .

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