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Erik Jendresen is a Scriptwriter and Producer American
Erik Jendresen is an author as well as a writer and producer for plays, television, and film.
As lead writer and a supervising producer of the critically acclaimed mini-series Band of Brothers for HBO in 2001, Jendresen was one of the recipients of that year's Emmy Award for "Outstanding Miniseries", which he shared with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, among others. Jendresen also shared an Emmy nomination for that show in the category of "Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special". The show also resulted in a Golden Globe Award for "Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television", and 20 other awards, including the Peabody Award.
As a writer/ producer for film, his current projects include Mission: Blacklist (directed by Jesper Ganslandt and starring Robert Pattinson); Saint-Ex (directed by Christopher McQuarrie); Solo (directed by Antonio Banderas); Aloft (starring Robert Redford); an adaptation of William Saroyan's The Human Comedy (directed by Meg Ryan); and an adaptation of Walter Tevis's The Man Who Fell to Earth (directed by David Slade). Earlier film projects include Star Trek: The Beginning (Paramount), Sublime, starring Tom Cavanagh and Kathleen York, Otis and The Big Bang (starring Antonio Banderas and Sam Elliott).
As a writer/producer for television his current projects include Killing Lincoln, co-produced with Tony and Ridley Scott for the National Geographic Channel; a series based on the Francis Ford Coppola film, The Conversation (with Christopher McQuarrie); The Pony Express (with Robert Duvall); an eight-hour adaptation of Gregory Maguire's novel, Wicked (ABC); the eight-hour miniseries Majestic-12; The Command - a series set in the world of the Joint Special Operations Command (FIC); a scripted series based on the work of Ray Kurzweil (Showtime); and Act of Valor - a 10-hour scripted series set in the world of U.S. Air Force Pararescue, directed by Mike McCoy for the National Geographic Channel.
Jendresen also has to his credit several books, most of which deal with the socio-anthropology of Peru and the Amazon Basin, including Dance of the Four Winds and its sequel, Island of the Sun (both based upon the journals of and co-written with Alberto Villoldo) and the children's book, The First Story Ever Told (also with Villoldo). Hanuman (with Joshua M. Greene, and Li Ming) is a re-telling for children of a portion of the Ramayana.
He is also a playwright (The Killing of Michael Malloy, Excuse My Dust, Malice Aforethought).
Jendresen lives in Sausalito, California, aboard the M.V. Hindeloopen, 108-year-old riveted wrought iron vessel which saw service during the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. He is married to Venus Madora Aslee Bobis, Program Director of the Partial Hospitalization Program at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute of the University of California, San Francisco.
He is an advisor at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
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As lead writer and a supervising producer of the critically acclaimed mini-series Band of Brothers for HBO in 2001, Jendresen was one of the recipients of that year's Emmy Award for "Outstanding Miniseries", which he shared with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, among others. Jendresen also shared an Emmy nomination for that show in the category of "Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special". The show also resulted in a Golden Globe Award for "Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television", and 20 other awards, including the Peabody Award.
As a writer/ producer for film, his current projects include Mission: Blacklist (directed by Jesper Ganslandt and starring Robert Pattinson); Saint-Ex (directed by Christopher McQuarrie); Solo (directed by Antonio Banderas); Aloft (starring Robert Redford); an adaptation of William Saroyan's The Human Comedy (directed by Meg Ryan); and an adaptation of Walter Tevis's The Man Who Fell to Earth (directed by David Slade). Earlier film projects include Star Trek: The Beginning (Paramount), Sublime, starring Tom Cavanagh and Kathleen York, Otis and The Big Bang (starring Antonio Banderas and Sam Elliott).
As a writer/producer for television his current projects include Killing Lincoln, co-produced with Tony and Ridley Scott for the National Geographic Channel; a series based on the Francis Ford Coppola film, The Conversation (with Christopher McQuarrie); The Pony Express (with Robert Duvall); an eight-hour adaptation of Gregory Maguire's novel, Wicked (ABC); the eight-hour miniseries Majestic-12; The Command - a series set in the world of the Joint Special Operations Command (FIC); a scripted series based on the work of Ray Kurzweil (Showtime); and Act of Valor - a 10-hour scripted series set in the world of U.S. Air Force Pararescue, directed by Mike McCoy for the National Geographic Channel.
Jendresen also has to his credit several books, most of which deal with the socio-anthropology of Peru and the Amazon Basin, including Dance of the Four Winds and its sequel, Island of the Sun (both based upon the journals of and co-written with Alberto Villoldo) and the children's book, The First Story Ever Told (also with Villoldo). Hanuman (with Joshua M. Greene, and Li Ming) is a re-telling for children of a portion of the Ramayana.
He is also a playwright (The Killing of Michael Malloy, Excuse My Dust, Malice Aforethought).
Jendresen lives in Sausalito, California, aboard the M.V. Hindeloopen, 108-year-old riveted wrought iron vessel which saw service during the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. He is married to Venus Madora Aslee Bobis, Program Director of the Partial Hospitalization Program at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute of the University of California, San Francisco.
He is an advisor at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
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Ithaca (2016)
, 1h36Directed by Meg Ryan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sam Shepard, Meg Ryan, Jack Quaid, Melanie Griffith, Hamish Linklater, Tom Hanks
Rating54%
En 1940, la famille Macauley est composée d'une veuve et de ses quatre enfants. L'ainé part au combat, et le cadet livre des télégrammes dans la ville d'Ithaca en Californie. Suite au départ de son grand frère, du décès de son père, il veille sur sa mère, sa sœur et son petit frère.
The Big Bang (2011)
, 1h41Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Antonio Banderas, Sienna Guillory, Autumn Reeser, Thomas Kretschmann, James Van Der Beek, Snoop Dogg
Rating54%
Detectives Poley (William Fichtner), Frizer (Thomas Kretschmann), and Skeres (Delroy Lindo) are interrogating Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas), a Los Angeles private investigator, who tells them that five years earlier, Russian mobster Skinny Faddeev gave $30 million in blood diamonds as an advance to Anton (Robert Maillet), a boxer, to intentionally lose a fight against his nephew. However, during the fight, Anton unintentionally killed the nephew. When Skinny was found dead, Anton was sentenced to life in prison. While Anton was in prison, he received over 200 letters from a woman named Lexie Persimmon.
The Big Bang (2011)
, 1h41Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Antonio Banderas, Thomas Kretschmann, Sienna Guillory, William Fichtner, Delroy Lindo, Sam Elliott
Rating54%
Un détective privé est engagé pour retrouver une strip-teaseuse. Ses recherches vont lui réserver son lot de surprises et d'action.
Otis (2008)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Serial killer films, Comedy horror films
Actors Bostin Christopher, Ashley Johnson, Daniel Stern, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Pollak, Jere Burns
Roles Writer
Rating58%
In the midst of a serial abductor/killer's rampage, beautiful young Riley Lawson goes missing. When her desperate parents, Will and Kate, are contacted by her kidnapper, insufferable FBI Special Agent Hotchkiss takes charge of the case. But, from deep within the psychopathic subterranean world created by Otis Broth, Riley turns the tables on her tormentor, manages to escape and to contact her parents. Fed up with the inability of the FBI to find their girl, Will, Kate, and Riley's brother, Reed decide to take matters – and justice – into their own hands.
Sublime (2007)
, 1h53Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Tom Cavanagh, Kathleen York, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Cas Anvar, Paget Brewster, David Clayton Rogers
Roles Author
Rating53%
The plot centers on the protagonist George Grieves (Cavanagh), who checks into the Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure only to find horrors await him. Awakening from what was supposedly a simple colonoscopy, Grieves is told by hospital staff that due to confusion arising from similar patient names he was mistakenly given a sympathectomy to cure sweaty palms.
Crazy As Hell (2002)
, 1h53Directed by Eriq La Salle
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Eriq La Salle, Michael Beach, Ronny Cox, Tia Texada, Sinbad, Twink Caplan
Rating57%
Psychiatrist Dr. Ty Adams (Michael Beach) comes to the Sedah State Mental Hospital to film a documentary. While coming across self-assured and overconfident, Adams is secretly haunted by the death of his daughter. He strikes up a friendship with the facility's administrator, Dr. Samuel Delazo (Ronny Cox), playing an ongoing chess game with him. Adams is intrigued by a patient named Barnett (Eriq La Salle) who claims to be Satan and takes a personal interest in his case.
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Ithaca (2016)
, 1h36Directed by Meg Ryan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sam Shepard, Meg Ryan, Jack Quaid, Melanie Griffith, Hamish Linklater, Tom Hanks
Roles Producer
Rating54%
En 1940, la famille Macauley est composée d'une veuve et de ses quatre enfants. L'ainé part au combat, et le cadet livre des télégrammes dans la ville d'Ithaca en Californie. Suite au départ de son grand frère, du décès de son père, il veille sur sa mère, sa sœur et son petit frère.
The Big Bang (2011)
, 1h41Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Antonio Banderas, Sienna Guillory, Autumn Reeser, Thomas Kretschmann, James Van Der Beek, Snoop Dogg
Roles Producer
Rating54%
Detectives Poley (William Fichtner), Frizer (Thomas Kretschmann), and Skeres (Delroy Lindo) are interrogating Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas), a Los Angeles private investigator, who tells them that five years earlier, Russian mobster Skinny Faddeev gave $30 million in blood diamonds as an advance to Anton (Robert Maillet), a boxer, to intentionally lose a fight against his nephew. However, during the fight, Anton unintentionally killed the nephew. When Skinny was found dead, Anton was sentenced to life in prison. While Anton was in prison, he received over 200 letters from a woman named Lexie Persimmon.