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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 is a screenwriter known for writing American independent film director Monte Hellman's 2010 film Road to Nowhere , [1] which was listed in the Sight & Sound and Film Comment's "Best Films of 2010" lists, as well as over 100 other 'Best Films of 2010' lists. [2] Nicolas Rapold of Film Comment wrote, "Without succumbing to any romance about the magic of motion pictures, Hellman imbues Road to Nowhere with a haunted yet hallowed quality." [3] French philosopher Jacques Rancière noted in an update to his work "Les Ecarts Du Cinema" that Road to Nowhere creatively advances the themes of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Vertigo. [4]
Gaydos has co-authored several other screenplays, including the 1988 Venice Film Festival prize-winner Iguana and Silent Night Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!, both directed by Monte Hellman. He frequently collaborates with Hellman, whose work has been the subject of several published studies, including the 2010 publication Sympathy for the Devil: The Films of Monte Hellman, as well as studies authored by film scholars Charles Tatum and Brad Stevens. Gaydos's contributions to Hellman's work are discussed in these publications. Gaydos's association with Hellman dates back to his work as a production associate on the 1974 action-drama Cockfighter . They have also been associated with several unproduced projects such as an adaptation of Jorge Semprún's historical novel, The Second Death of Ramon Mercader and Charles McCarry's spy thriller novel The Miernik Dossier . [1]
As a screenwriter, Gaydos also developed and co-authored Dutch filmmaker Ate de Jong's adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir's novel All Men Are Mortal , and contributed to the screenplay for Dutch director Nouchka van Brakel’s, One Month Later. [5]
In addition to his produced screenplays, Gaydos co-authored several screenplays with Edgar and Emmy Award-winning television writer-showrunner René Balcer, [6] best known for the Law & Order television franchise. Gaydos's work with Balcer includes the unproduced screenplays Warheads (Hemdale) and Armed Response (Fox).[ citation needed ]
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 a special award for his contributions to film culture from the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. [7]
Gaydos has also worked on several music projects, including "More Than I Care To Remember" by Carl Hickman and "Chicken of the County," a parody record by Rod Hart based upon Kenny Rogers's hit "Coward of the County".
His song "Mystery Dawn" [8] (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. .
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). [9] He has appeared on American television and radio, and in international media outlets such as the United Kingdom's BBC. [5]
Gaydos became Vice-President and Executive Editor of Variety in 2013. [10]
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