Editing Roger Avary (section)

==Career==
===1990s===
In 1993 Avary directed his feature film debut with ''[[Killing Zoe]]''. The film follows an American safe-cracker ([[Eric Stoltz]]) who travels to Paris to aid a childhood friend ([[Jean-Hugues Anglade]]) with a bank heist. Along the way he meets and befriends a sex worker ([[Julie Delpy]]) whose fate becomes tied with the crime.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/killing-zoe-1994 |title=Killing Zoe |website=rogerebert.com |accessdate=2017-05-02}}</ref> The film premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win the Grand Prize award at the 5th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://yubarifanta.com/index_pc.php?ct=archive.php&langue=21002 |title=YUBARI INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL'94 |website=Yubarifanta.com |accessdate=2009-09-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040407040236/http://yubarifanta.com/index_pc.php?ct=archive.php&langue=21002 |archivedate=April 7, 2004 }}</ref>
 
Avary and [[Quentin Tarantino]] worked on the 1994 film ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', for which they won the [[67th Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for Best Original Screenplay.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Academy Awards Acceptance Speeches - Search Results {{!}} Margaret Herrick Library {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |url=http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/067-24/ |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=aaspeechesdb.oscars.org}}</ref> According to Tarantino, Avary originally came up with the plot of the boxer Butch Coolidge and his gold watch from a screenplay named ''Pandemonium Reigns'', which Avary had written himself.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-23 |title=Roger Avary: The forgotten co-writer of 'Pulp Fiction' |first=Calum |last=Russell |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/roger-avary-the-forgotten-co-writer-of-pulp-fiction/ |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=faroutmagazine.co.uk |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1995 Avary wrote and directed the science fiction film ''Mr. Stitch'' for [[Sci-Fi Channel|Syfy]], then The Sci-Fi Channel. Loosely a modern take on  Frankenstein, the film features [[Wil Wheaton]], [[Rutger Hauer]], [[Nia Peeples]], and [[Ron Perlman]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Todd Everett|title=Review: 'Mr. Stitch'|url=https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/mr-stitch-1200446390/ |access-date=9 June 2015|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 15, 1996 }}</ref>

===2000s===
In 2002, Avary directed the film adaptation for ''[[The Rules of Attraction (film)|The Rules of Attraction]]'', based on [[Bret Easton Ellis]]' [[The Rules of Attraction|novel]], which he also executive produced.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=collegecomedy.htm |title=Comedy - College Movies at the Box Office |publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2012-10-27}}</ref> ''The Rules of Attraction'' was the first studio film to be edited on Apple's [[Final Cut Pro]] editing system.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.macworld.com/news/2002/01/15/finalcut/ |title=More don't miss stories from Macworld page 1 |publisher=Macworld.com |date=2002-01-15 |access-date=2012-10-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829210257/http://www.macworld.com/news/2002/01/15/finalcut/ |archive-date=2008-08-29 }}</ref> Avary became a spokesperson for [[Final Cut Pro]] product,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.apple.com/ca/pro/film/avary/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051106211139/http://www.apple.com/ca/pro/film/avary/|url-status=dead|title=Apple.com|archivedate=November 6, 2005}}</ref> appearing in Apple print and web ads worldwide. In 2005, Avary, at the request of his friend, actor [[James Van Der Beek]], played the part of a [[peyote]]-taking gonzo film director Franklin Brauner in the film ''[[Standing Still (film)|Standing Still]]''.<ref name="moviehole">{{cite news | author=Clint Morris | url=http://www.moviehole.net/interviews/20060901_exclusive_interview_james_van.html | title=Exclusive Interview : James Van Der Beek | publisher=Moviehole.net | access-date=21 January 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061013113529/http://www.moviehole.net/interviews/20060901_exclusive_interview_james_van.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 13 October 2006}}
</ref> The film ''[[Glitterati (film)|Glitterati]]'' was finished in 2004 and stars Kip Pardue.  It can never be released because of legal and ethical concerns.

In 2006, Avary wrote a screenplay adaptation to the [[Konami]] video game, ''[[Silent Hill (film)|Silent Hill]]'' (2006), with French director and friend, [[Christophe Gans]], and ''Killing Zoe'' producer Samuel Hadida. Avary and Gans being long time gamers and fans of the ''Silent Hill'' series, collaborated on the film.<ref name="joblo">
{{cite news | author=Matt Withers | url=http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=11029 | title=INT: Roger Avary | publisher=[[JoBlo.com]] | date=20 April 2006 | access-date=21 January 2007 }}
</ref> Avary and novelist [[Neil Gaiman]] wrote the screenplay for the 2007 film ''[[Beowulf (2007 film)|Beowulf]]'' which was directed by [[Robert Zemeckis]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stv.tv/content/out/film/videointerviews/display.html?id=opencms:/out/films/video_interviews/neil_gaiman_roger_avary|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213220918/http://www.stv.tv/content/out/film/videointerviews/display.html?id=opencms%3A%2Fout%2Ffilms%2Fvideo_interviews%2Fneil_gaiman_roger_avary|url-status=dead|title=Stv.tv|archivedate=December 13, 2007}}</ref>

===2010s and 2020s===
In September 2017 Avary directed his own screenplay, ''[[Lucky Day (film)|Lucky Day]]'', a semi-sequel of ''[[Killing Zoe]].''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://meaww.com/lucky-day-director-roger-avary-interview-starring-nina-dobrev-luke-bracey-prison-manslaughter-french|title = Director Roger Avary wrote 'Lucky Day' during year-long incarceration with 'dialogues, ruminations and themes' from 'cell block C4'| date=12 October 2019 }}</ref> In 2018 he shot an adaptation of [[Jean Cocteau]]'s play ''[[The Human Voice|La voix humaine]]''  that remains unreleased.

After ''Pulp Fiction'', Avary had a falling-out with Tarantino that lasted nearly twenty-five years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/lucky-day-review-1203369353/ |title=Film Review: 'Lucky Day' |date=14 October 2019 }}</ref> The two rekindled their friendship after Tarantino heard Avary being interviewed on a 2019 episode of [[Bret Easton Ellis]]'s podcast. In 2021, Quentin Tarantino announced that he and Avary would launch a podcast titled ''The Video Archives Podcast''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=2022-06-02 |title=Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary Set to Launch 'The Video Archives Podcast' |url=https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/quentin-tarantino-roger-avary-video-archives-podcast-1235283963/ |access-date=2022-07-21 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> The point of the podcast is to discuss films from the actual [[Video Archives]] collection that they would recommend to customers when they worked there. The set is surrounded by actual [[VHS]] copies of films from Video Archives that Tarantino bought after the store went out of business. They are joined by podcast announcer, Gala Avary, Roger Avary's daughter. The first episode premiered on July 19, 2022.<ref name="Avary"/> The duo discussed [[John Carpenter]]'s ''[[Dark Star (film)|Dark Star]]'' (1974) and [[Ulli Lommel]]'s ''[[Cocaine Cowboys (1979 film)|Cocaine Cowboys]]'' (1979).

===Unproduced works===
After winning an Oscar for ''Pulp Fiction'', he was originally attached to direct an adaptation of [[Neil Gaiman]]'s comic book ''[[The Sandman (comic)|The Sandman]]'', which merged the "Preludes and Nocturnes" storyline with that of "The Doll's House". Avary was fired after disagreements over the creative direction with executive producer [[Jon Peters]]. It was due to their meeting on the ''Sandman'' film project that Avary and Gaiman collaborated on the script for ''[[Beowulf (2007 film)|Beowulf]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.aintitcool.com/node/2571| title= Moriarty takes a look at what Jon Peters has done with Neil Gaiman's ''Sandman'' property|date=November 29, 1998|work= [[Ain't It Cool News]]|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225513/http://www.aintitcool.com/node/2571|archive-date= December 2, 2013|url-status= live}}</ref> Avary had originally intended upon directing his script of ''Beowulf'' himself as a [[live action]] film, to be shot in [[Iceland]] with a $10 million budget. "I wanted it to be like an early [[Terry Gilliam]] film, like ''[[Jabberwocky (film)|Jabberwocky]]''," he said. The film was ultimately directed by [[Robert Zemeckis]] and instead produced using [[motion capture]] technology.<ref name=jre>{{cite podcast|author=Rogan, Joe|author-link=Joe Rogan|title=Joe Rogan Experience #2240 - Roger Avary & Quentin Tarantino|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u5vPHuAXXg|publisher=PowerfulJRE|date=December 10, 2024|access-date=December 12, 2024|via=[[YouTube]]|format=video}}</ref>

In the late 1990s, Avary reached out to [[Don Coscarelli]] and expressed an interest in writing a ''[[Phantasm (film)|Phantasm]]'' sequel.<ref name="jenkins">{{cite web|last=Jenkins|first=Jason|title='Phantasm 1999' – Don Coscarelli Details the Wild Post-Apocalyptic Sequel We Never Saw|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3716689/phantasm-1999-don-coscarelli-details-the-wild-post-apocalyptic-sequel-we-never-saw-phantom-limbs/|website=[[Bloody Disgusting]]|date=May 30, 2022|access-date=October 7, 2023}}</ref> Entitled '' Phantasm 1999'', the film would have taken place in an apocalyptic future United States divided into three zones: Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; and the Plague Zone. The Plague Zone would be controlled by the [[Tall Man (Phantasm)|Tall Man]] where he infects people with his "bag plague".<ref name="jenkins"/> [[Reggie (Phantasm)|Reggie]] must lead a secret government operation, called the "S Squad", into the Plague Zone to defeat the Tall Man.<ref name="jenkins"/> Avary and Coscarelli spent years trying to get the film made and even had financing in place in 1997 before that company changed hands and the deal evaporated.<ref name="jenkins"/> Eventually, Coscarelli made ''[[Phantasm IV]]'' without Avary, although as of 2022 Coscarelli still had interest in filming Avary's script, now entitled ''Phantasm’s End'' as 1999 has come and gone.<ref name="jenkins"/>

Through the 90s and early 2000s Avary attempted to direct a film based on the life of [[Salvador Dalí]] that had [[Al Pacino]] attached to star as the painter at one stage, but the project fell apart and never came to fruition.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.salon.com/2002/10/15/avary/ |title="It seems like exactly the wrong film to make" |last=Schwartz |first=Ben |work=Salon |date=October 15, 2002| access-date=December 12, 2024}}</ref>

After ''[[The Rules of Attraction (film)|The Rules of Attraction]]'' and ''[[Glitterati (film)|Glitterati]]'', Avary had intentions to film his screenplay of [[Bret Easton Ellis]]'s 1998 novel ''[[Glamorama]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/21175|title=Roger Avary gets lifetime rights to Ellis' GLAMORAMA! Rock and roll!|website=[[Ain't It Cool News]]|date=September 6, 2005|access-date=December 12, 2024}}</ref> [[Kip Pardue]] was attached to reprise his role as Victor Ward. The project never moved beyond the pre-production stage. When asked about the film's status in a 2010 interview, Ellis said: "I think the days of being able to make that movie are over."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movieline.com/2010/05/19/bret-easton-ellis-on-rules-of-attraction-and-its-sexy-illicit-spinoff-youll-never-see/2/|title=Bret Easton Ellis on The Rules of Attraction and Its Sexy, Illicit Spinoff You'll Never See|website=[[Movieline]]|date=May 19, 2010|access-date=December 12, 2024}}</ref> However, the following year Ellis confirmed that Avary was planning to shoot the feature in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fischer|first=Russ|url=https://www.slashfilm.com/518034/bret-easton-ellis-roger-avary-direct-glamorama-year/|title=Bret Easton Ellis Says Roger Avary Will Direct 'Glamorama' Next Year|website=[[/Film]]|date=October 13, 2011|access-date=December 12, 2024}}</ref>

In 2006, French director [[Alexandre Aja]] was set to direct a feature film adaptation of the ''[[Black Hole (comics)|Black Hole]]'' comics, with [[Neil Gaiman]] and Avary attached to adapt the screenplay.<ref>{{cite web|first=Scott|last=Weinberg|title=GAIMAN, AVARY, AND AJA TO VISIT A "BLACK HOLE"|url=https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/gaiman-avary-and-aja-to-visit-a-black-hole/|date=March 8, 2006|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=May 28, 2024}}</ref> By 2008, it was reported by [[MTV]] that Gaiman and Avary had left the production and that their script would not be used for [[David Fincher]]'s planned version,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/10/21/neil-gaiman-escapes-a-black-hole/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022211355/http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/10/21/neil-gaiman-escapes-a-black-hole/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 22, 2008 |title=Neil Gaiman On Adapting Charles Burns' Graphic Novel 'Black Hole' |last=Vineyard |first=Jennifer |publisher=MTV |date=2008-10-21 |access-date=2017-03-13}}</ref> which was ultimately not produced. He was also attached to write and direct a ''[[Castle Wolfenstein]]'' film adaptation both in 2007 and 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/01/castle-wolfenstein-movie-announced |title=Castle Wolfenstein Movie Announced |last=Vejvoda |first=Jim |publisher=[[IGN]] |date=November 1, 2012 |access-date=June 7, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309112054/http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/01/castle-wolfenstein-movie-announced |archive-date=March 9, 2014}}</ref>

While in prison, Avary came across an "old [[Penguin Books|Penguin]] paperback" on a [[book cart]] of a [[E. C. Vivian#Robin Hood|''Robin Hood'' story]] written by [[E. C. Vivian|E. Charles Vivian]] and decided to adapt the material, sending the pages he wrote to his lawyer to have his daughter type up into a script. "I was crying when I wrote it," Avary noted. "When you're writing like that and you're feeling that much, it's not a bad thing."<ref name=jre/>

Following his prison sentence, Avary had worked on adapting [[Paul Verhoeven]]'s book ''Jesus of Nazareth'' for Verhoeve to direct, oversaw rewrites on the screenplay for a planned [[Duncan Jones]]-directed biopic on ''[[James Bond]]'' creator [[Ian Fleming]], and additionally had plans to adapt the early [[William Faulkner]] novel ''[[Sanctuary (Faulkner novel)|Sanctuary]]''.<ref name=post>{{cite web|last=Kohn|first=Eric|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/roger-avarys-first-post-prison-interview-where-his-career-will-take-him-next-45780/|title=Roger Avary's First Post-Prison Interview: Where His Career Will Take Him Next|website=[[IndieWire]]|date=August 6, 2012|access-date=December 12, 2024}}</ref> Also in 2012, Avary was planning to reteam with author [[Bret Easton Ellis]] to direct an adaptation of his novel ''[[Lunar Park]]'', with financing from [[Wild Bunch (company)|Wild Bunch]].<ref name=post/> Ellis himself took to [[Twitter]] in 2011, praising Avary's script as "great" and saying he "hopes he makes it."<ref>{{cite tweet|number=142895190812794880|user=BretEastonEllis|title=Roger Avary wrote a great script for Lunar Park and I hope he makes it.|date=December 3, 2011}}</ref> Also according to Ellis, Avary planned to shoot the project in September 2012, and hinted about [[Aaron Eckhart]]'s potential involvement.<ref>{{cite tweet|number=225453039903981570|user=BretEastonEllis|title=Director/writer of "Lunar Park" is Roger Avary who has written a great, scary-as-hell script. He plans to shoot in September. Aaron Eckhart?|date=July 18, 2012}}</ref>

At some point after [[John Milius]]' stroke, Avary, along with his daughter Gala, worked with Milius to retool his unproduced feature script on [[Genghis Khan]] in the form of a [[limited-run series]].<ref name=jre/> As of 2018, Avary was slated to direct ''Unwind'', co-written with his daughter Gala and based on the [[Unwind (novel)|dystopian novel of the same name]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=2016-05-05 |title=Roger Avary Directing ‘Unwind’, Voltage Teaming With Constantin Films: Cannes |url=https://deadline.com/2016/05/voltage-pictures-constantin-film-cannes-1201750066/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref> Avary has also written an as-yet unproduced script based on ''[[The Devil Soldier]]'' by [[Caleb Carr]], which was in development with [[Antoine Fuqua]] directing and [[Mark Burman]] producing.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://movieweb.com/ambush-director-mark-burman-interview/ | title=Exclusive: Ambush Writer-Director Mark Burman Discusses His New Vietnam War Film | date=21 February 2023 }}</ref>