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Steven Gaydos is an American screenwriter, songwriter, and journalist.
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Steven Gaydos is an American screenwriter, songwriter, and journalist.
Gaydos wrote the 2010 film Road to Nowhere [1] , directed by independent filmmaker Monte Hellman. The film appeared on Sight & Sound and Film Comment's "Best Films of 2010" lists. [2]
Gaydos has co-written several screenplays, including the 1988 Venice Film Festival prize-winner Iguana and Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!, both directed by Hellman. He began his collaboration with Hellman as a production associate on the 1974 action-drama Cockfighter . The duo also worked on several unproduced projects such as adaptations of Jorge Semprún's The Second Death of Ramon Mercader, and Charles McCarry's spy thriller novel The Miernik Dossier [1] .
Gaydos co-wrote Dutch filmmaker Ate de Jong's adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir's novel All Men Are Mortal and contributed to Dutch director Nouchka van Brakel’s One Month Later. [3]
In addition to his produced screenplays, Gaydos co-authored several screenplays with Edgar and René Balcer, [4]
His unproduced solo works include current projects Bring Me the Head of Sam Peckinpah and The Man Who Was Not With It, based upon the novel by Herbert Gold. [1] In 2008, Gaydos received an award for his contributions to film culture from the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. [5]
Gaydos has also worked on several music projects, his song "Mystery Dawn" [6] (co-authored with Mitch Moon and from the 2014 record Rain in the Drought by Sun and Moon) is featured in the 2014 Ate de Jong film Deadly Virtues: Love.Honour.Obey. [ citation needed ]
Gaydos is also an entertainment journalist and co-author of several books in the entertainment industry, including Movie Talk From The Front Lines (McFarland) and Cannes: 50 Years of Sun, Sex and Celluloid (Miramax). [7] He has appeared on American television and radio and in international media outlets such as the United Kingdom's BBC. [3]
Gaydos became Vice President and Executive Editor of Variety in 2013. [8]
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