J. Mills Goodloe | |
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Born | November 15, 1966 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. |
Alma mater | Southern Methodist University |
J. Mills Goodloe is an American film producer, screenwriter, director, and actor. [1]
Goodloe grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, [2] and attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
He began his career at Warner Brothers, working for director Richard Donner [2] whose credits include Superman , The Omen , Scrooged and the Lethal Weapon series. [3] Goodloe worked as Donner's assistant from 1992 to 1995 on films such as Lethal Weapon 3 and Maverick . [1] In 1996, Goodloe was promoted to president of Donner Productions. Over the next four years, Goodloe produced Assassins , starring Sylvester Stallone and Julianne Moore, Conspiracy Theory starring Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts, and the final installment of the Lethal Weapon series starring Gibson, Danny Glover and Chris Rock. [1] In 2001, Goodloe left Donner Productions to write and direct A Gentleman's Game starring Gary Sinise, Dylan Baker and Philip Baker Hall. [1] The film was nominated for an ESPY Award in the category of Best Sports Film. [4]
Goodloe wrote the adaptation of the John Grisham novel Bleachers for Revolution Studios. [5] Goodloe also co-wrote the screenplay for the sports film Pride , released theatrically in 2007 by Lionsgate and starring Terrence Howard and Bernie Mac. [6] [7]
In August 2008, Goodloe was hired by Phoenix Pictures to adapt John Grisham's New York Times bestselling novel Playing for Pizza . [8]
In October 2014, Relativity Media released Goodloe's adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' best-selling novel The Best of Me , starring Michelle Monaghan and James Marsden. [9]
In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Sony Pictures hired Goodloe to write the screenplay for Christian the Lion with Neal H. Moritz's Original Film producing. [10]
On April 24, 2015, Lionsgate released The Age of Adaline , an original Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz screenplay, [11] starring Blake Lively, Harrison Ford and Michiel Huisman. [12]
Goodloe adapted the New York Times bestselling novel Everything, Everything for MGM studios. [13] The film began principal photography in August 2016. Starring Nick Robinson and Amandla Stenberg, [14] Warner Bros. released the film nationwide on May 19, 2017.
In August 2015, StudioCanal bought an original action-thriller pitch, Sana, from Goodloe. Sana, a drone-focused story follows an Air Force major whose entire squadron has been poisoned by a jihadist infiltrator. [11]
Goodloe co-wrote the screenplay for the film The Mountain Between Us , with Chris Weitz. Starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet, the romance drama was directed by Academy Award-nominated Hany Abu-Assad, and was released on October 6, 2017, by Fox. [15]
In August 2016, Paramount Pictures announced it had engaged Goodloe to adapt the New York Times bestselling novel Anatomy of A Misfit , which will be produced by Rogue One producer Allison Shearmur. [16]
In 2018, Lionsgate announced that Goodloe was hired to adapt How the Girl Guides Won the War for La La Land producer Marc Platt. [17]
In 2019, Goodloe was hired to write 'To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You,' the sequel to the hit Netflix YA movie The To All the Boys I've Loved Before , [18]
In December 2020, Goodloe was hired to write the music biopic Reckless Love for Paramount Pictures. The script is based on the hit song of the same name by Cory Asbury. [19]
In October 2022, Goodloe Directed and Executive Produced the Feature Film Days When the Rains Came, starring Beau Bridges, Marisa Couglin, Freddy Rodriguez and Sam Trammell. [20]