Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2016 10:16:24 GMT 7
Curtis Hanson, the Oscar winning writer and director of LA Confidential, has died aged 71.
Hanson died of natural causes at his home in the Hollywood Hills home on Tuesday, Los Angeles police spokesman Tony Im said.
His bravura adaptation of Jame Ellroy’s noir novel catapulted Hanson into the Hollywood A-list but he also made a number of other very successful films such as Wonder Boys and 8 Mile.
Rob Lowe, who starred alongside James Spader in Hanson’s 1990 thriller Bad Influence, said it was “an honor” working with him. “So smart, so kind and a great storyteller. I will miss him.”
A native of Reno, Nevada who grew up in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, Hanson dropped out of high school to work as a photographer.
He began screenwriting and directing in the early 1970s, but didn’t see serious success until directing the 1992 psychological thriller The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. The film starring Rebecca De Mornay as a revenge-seeking nanny became a major hit.
Hanson went on to direct 1994’s The River Wild with Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon but his biggest success came three years later with LA Confidential, which featured upcoming stars Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe and Kevin Spacey alongside Kim Basinger in the complex tale of police corruption.
www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/21/curtis-hanson-director-of-la-confidential-and-8-mile-dies-aged-71
Hanson died of natural causes at his home in the Hollywood Hills home on Tuesday, Los Angeles police spokesman Tony Im said.
His bravura adaptation of Jame Ellroy’s noir novel catapulted Hanson into the Hollywood A-list but he also made a number of other very successful films such as Wonder Boys and 8 Mile.
Rob Lowe, who starred alongside James Spader in Hanson’s 1990 thriller Bad Influence, said it was “an honor” working with him. “So smart, so kind and a great storyteller. I will miss him.”
A native of Reno, Nevada who grew up in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, Hanson dropped out of high school to work as a photographer.
He began screenwriting and directing in the early 1970s, but didn’t see serious success until directing the 1992 psychological thriller The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. The film starring Rebecca De Mornay as a revenge-seeking nanny became a major hit.
Hanson went on to direct 1994’s The River Wild with Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon but his biggest success came three years later with LA Confidential, which featured upcoming stars Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe and Kevin Spacey alongside Kim Basinger in the complex tale of police corruption.
www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/21/curtis-hanson-director-of-la-confidential-and-8-mile-dies-aged-71
