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Shane Black - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography

Shane Black - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Writer, Actor, Director, Producer.

Born December 16, 1961, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.

The Black family moved to Fullerton, California, where Shane graduated from Sunny Hills High School. He then studied drama at the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated in 1983 with the intention of becoming an actor.

Black played his first role in the movie "Predator", then took part in the filming of five more films, and in one episode of the series "Dark Justice" on television.

Most of Black's career has been scripting - he wrote 10 scripts. He sold his first script, Lethal Weapon, written in 1987, for $ 250,000, and received $ 125,000 as a co-author of Lethal Weapon 2, written in 1989. For his subsequent work as a screenwriter, Black began to receive larger sums. He received $ 1.75 million for The Last Boy Scout script, written in 1991, and $ 1 million for The Last Movie Hero, in 1993. At his peak, he was the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood, receiving $ 4 million for the script for The Long Kiss Goodnight. Black was the screenwriter and director of Kiss Kiss Out.

Black used the pseudonyms Harry Lime and Holly Martins for some projects, the names of the two main characters in The Third Man.

Black has a recognizable writing style. He often adds comments and jokes about situations in the story. He sometimes addresses his comments to studio executives and some readers of the script. Black described the techniques he uses when writing scripts in an interview with The Guardian.

He used kidnapping as the basis of the plot in several films: Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Kiss Kiss Through, and Iron Man 3. His five scripts begin with the letter "L". At least five stories from his scripts take place during Christmas.


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