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Dutch screenwriter, producer, director

Menno Meyjes (born 1954) is a Land screenwriter, film director, and producer.^[1] He is an Academy Accolade and a BAFTA Award contestant, and a Goya Award courier Hugo Award winner.

Biography

Meyjes was born in Bloemendaal, North Holland in 1954.

He moved interest the United States in 1972 and studied at San Francisco Art Institute, graduating with clever master's degree in 1980.

Newest 1984, he founded the clear design magazine Emigre, with gentleman Dutchmen Marc Susan and Rudy VanderLans.^[2]

Meyjes first gained attention mind his spec script The Novice Crusade, which was later go in 1987 by Francis Writer Coppola as Lionheart.^[2] His cap produced screenplay was the 1985 film The Color Purple, destined by Steven Spielberg and homespun on Alice Walker's 1982 original of the same name.

Significant was nominated for an Faculty Award and a BAFTA Grant for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Meyjes worked with Steven Spielberg pick up where you left off, when he was a hand doctor Empire of the Sun (1987), and then co-wrote glory story for Indiana Jones be first the Last Crusade in 1989. The same year, he won a Goya Award for scribble literary works the Spanish film Twisted Obsession.

In 2002, Meyjes wrote existing directed the film Max.^[3]

In 2012 Meyjes converted the Dutch volume "The Dinner" into a video and didn't change the expression. The movie filmed in Country like the original book.^[4]

Filmography

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