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Education | Northwestern University Juilliard School |
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Allison Burnett (born December 16, 1958[ citation needed ]) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist.
Allison Burnett was born in Ithaca, New York.[ citation needed ] He graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois [1] before attending Juilliard where he studied playwriting. [2]
Burnett's first screenplay to be produced was the kick-boxing prison drama, Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight (1992), [3] which he co-wrote with Charles Mattera. He also wrote Gregory Hines' directorial debut, Bleeding Hearts (1994), [4] and the film Red Meat (1997), which he directed, starring John Slattery, Jennifer Grey, and Lara Flynn Boyle. [5]
Burnett's next film was Autumn in New York (2000), starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder. [6] This was followed by the Lifetime Original Movie Perfect Romance (2004), [7] Feast of Love (2007) based on the book by Charles Baxter and starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear, [8] and Resurrecting the Champ (2007), written with Michael Bortman and starring Samuel L. Jackson and Josh Hartnett. [9] In 2008, Burnett wrote, with Robert Fyvolent and Mark Brinker, the crime thriller Untraceable (2008) starring Diane Lane. [10] The following year, Burnett wrote the remake of Fame . [11]
Burnett had two films released in 2012. The first was Underworld Awakening (2012), co-written with Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, and J. Michael Straczynski, the fourth film in the Underworld series starring Kate Beckinsale. The following month, Gone (2012) was released, starring Amanda Seyfried. [12]
In 2013, Burnett directed his second film, Ask Me Anything (2013) based on his novel Undiscovered Gyrl. [13] The film stars Britt Robertson, Justin Long, Christian Slater, Robert Patrick, and Martin Sheen. [14]
In 2019, Burnett directed the sequel to Ask Me Anything , Another Girl, starring Sammi Hanratty and Peter Gadiot, based on his 2015 novella of the same name. [15]
Burnett's first novel, Christopher: A Tale of Seduction was published in 2003 by Broadway Books. It was a finalist for the 2004 Pen Center Literary Award. [1]
In 2006, Burnett wrote a sequel to Christopher titled The House Beautiful, published by Carroll & Graf, followed in 2009 by the novel Undiscovered Gyrl , published by Vintage Books. [16]
In 2011, Burnett wrote the second sequel to his novel Christopher, titled Death By Sunshine, published by Writers Tribe Books. [17]
Burnett released his fifth novel, The Escape of Malcolm Poe, in 2014. [18] He released a sequel novella to Undiscovered Gyrl, titled Another Girl, in 2015.
Year | Title | Notes |
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1992 | Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight | With Charles Mattera |
1994 | Bleeding Hearts | Directorial debut of Gregory Hines |
1997 | Red Meat | Also director |
2000 | Autumn in New York | |
2004 | Perfect Romance | TV movie |
2007 | Feast of Love | Based on the novel by Charles Baxter |
2007 | Resurrecting the Champ | With Michael Bortman Based on the LA Times article by J.R. Moehringer |
2008 | Untraceable | With Robert Fyvolent and Mark Brinker |
2009 | Fame | Remake of Fame (1980) |
2012 | Underworld Awakening | With Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, and J. Michael Straczynski Fourth installment in Underworld series |
2012 | Gone | |
2012 | Step One | Short film [19] |
2013 | Ask Me Anything | Also director, based on his novel Undiscovered Gyrl |
2020 | Another Girl | Also director, based his novella of the same name, sequel to Ask Me Anything |
Year | Title | Publisher | Notes |
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2003 | Christopher: A Tale of Seduction | Broadway Books | Finalist in Fiction, 2004 Pen Center USA Award |
2006 | The House Beautiful | Carroll & Graf | Sequel to Christopher: A Tale of Seduction |
2009 | Undiscovered Gyrl | Vintage Books | Adapted into film, directed by the author |
2011 | Death by Sunshine | Writers Tribe Books]p | Second sequel to Christopher: A Tale of Seduction |
2014 | The Escape of Malcolm Poe | Writers Tribe Books | |
2015 | Another Girl | Allison Burnett | Sequel novella to Undiscovered Gyrl |
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