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Michael Chabon is a Scriptwriter and Thanks American born on 24 may 1963 at Washington, D.C. (USA)

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon
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Nationality USA
Birth 24 may 1963 (61 years) at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Awards Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Michael Chabon, né le 24 mai 1963 à Washington DC aux États-Unis, est un écrivain, essayiste et scénariste américain.

Biography

Michael Chabon a grandi à Columbia (Maryland) dans une famille juive, et est diplômé en art à l'université de Pittsburgh et en écriture créative à l'université de Californie à Irvine.

Ses parents se séparent alors qu'il n'a que sept ans, et de fait, les thèmes du divorce et de la monoparentalité sont profondément ancrés dans ses obsessions d'écrivain.

De la même manière, citoyen américain, il est de religion juive et le judaïsme est ainsi au centre de nombre de ses écrits (Les Extraordinaires Aventures de Kavalier & Clay notamment, qui traite très indirectement de la Shoah).

Enfin, la présence de personnages homosexuels (notamment les deux personnages principaux des Mystères de Pittsburgh) ont amené de nombreux journalistes à s'interroger sur son orientation sexuelle. Dans une réédition des Mystères de Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon a déclaré qu'il avait effectivement eu par le passé de telles relations. Pourtant il vit aujourd'hui avec sa femme Ayelet Waldman - elle-même écrivaine - et leurs quatre enfants, à Berkeley (Californie, États-Unis).

Michael Chabon collabore depuis quelques années avec le monde du cinéma. Un de ses romans, Des garçons épatants, a déjà été adapté pour l'écran en 2000 par le scénariste Steven Kloves, et réalisé par Curtis Hanson, sous le titre Wonder Boys. Michael Chabon a participé directement à l'écriture de Spider-Man 2 (2004), dont environ un tiers de l'histoire serait de son ressort. Enfin, il a lui-même adapté Les Extraordinaires Aventures de Kavalier & Clay pour le grand écran mais le projet n'a pas dépassé le stade de la pré-production. En 2009, il a révisé le script du film John Carter écrit par Andrew Stanton et Mark Andrews.

Le personnage de « l'Artiste de l'évasion » super héros de bande dessinée créé par Kavalier et Clay dans Les Extraordinaires Aventures de Kavalier & Clay, a donné lieu à la création de véritables bande dessinées narrant ses aventures. Celles-ci ont reçu de nombreux prix aux États-Unis, notamment un Eisner Award de la meilleure anthologie en 2005.

Best films

Spider-Man 2 (2004)
(Screenstory)
John Carter (2012)
(Scriptwriter)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
(Thanks)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
(Thanks)
Wonder Boys (2000)
(Novel)

Usually with

Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson
(2 films)
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
(1 films)
Scott Rudin
Scott Rudin
(3 films)
Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Michael Chabon (6 films)

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Scriptwriter

John Carter, 2h13
Directed by Andrew Stanton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films about magic and magicians, Mars in film, Films based on science fiction novels, Films about extraterrestrial life, Martiens, Space opera, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Taylor Kitsch, Viola Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Thomas Haden Church, Ciarán Hinds
Rating65% 3.297163.297163.297163.297163.29716
After the sudden death of John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), a former American Civil War Confederate Army captain, Carter's nephew, Edgar Rice Burroughs (Daryl Sabara), attends the funeral. Per Carter's instructions, the body is put in a tomb that can be unlocked only from the inside. His attorney hands Burroughs Carter's journal, which Burroughs reads in the hope of finding clues to Carter's cause of death.
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, 1h36
Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jon Foster, Sienna Miller, Peter Sarsgaard, Mena Suvari, Nick Nolte, Marc Macaulay
Roles Novel
Rating53% 2.6949852.6949852.6949852.6949852.694985
Un été 1983 dans la ville de Pittsburgh. Un jeune homme nommé Art s'apprête à vivre ses derniers mois de liberté avant d'être aspiré dans les affaires de son père, un puissant criminel. Pour lui tenir tête, il travaille dans une librairie de livres usagés, où il entretient une liaison avec la gérante, et poursuit des études pour devenir courtier. Lors d'une soirée, il fait la connaissance de Jane, une violoniste, et il en tombe amoureux. Le lendemain un mystérieux motard surgit à la librairie; il s'agit de Cleveland, l'amant de Jane, un petit truand qui invite Art à partager leurs escapades. Le jeune homme s'attache rapidement à ce couple excentrique. Plus que jamais séduit par Jane, il éprouve aussi une curieuse attirance pour Cleveland, ouvertement bisexuel.
Spider-Man 2, 2h8
Directed by Sam Raimi
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about computing, Films about spiders, Spider-Man films, Superhero films, Cyberpunk films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Children's films
Actors Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, J. K. Simmons, Rosemary Harris
Roles Screenstory
Rating74% 3.7478153.7478153.7478153.7478153.747815
Peter Parker struggles to balance his crime-fighting duties as Spider-Man with the demands of his normal life. He loses a job, faces financial difficulties, and struggles to attend his physics lectures at Columbia University on time. Estranged from both love interest Mary Jane Watson and best friend Harry Osborn, who intends to seek revenge on Spider-Man for his father Norman's death, Peter additionally discovers his Aunt May is facing foreclosure.
Wonder Boys, 1h51
Directed by Curtis Hanson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about education, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Robert Downey Jr., Rip Torn
Roles Novel
Rating71% 3.5981253.5981253.5981253.5981253.598125
Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university (the movie was shot chiefly in and around Carnegie Mellon). He is having an affair with the university chancellor, Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), whose husband, Walter (Richard Thomas), is the chairman of the English department in which Grady is a professor. Grady's third wife, Emily, has just left him, and he has failed to repeat the grand success of his first novel, published years earlier. He continues to labor on a second novel, but the more he tries to finish it the less able he finds himself to invent a satisfactory ending. The book runs to over two and a half thousand pages and is still far from finished. He spends his free time smoking marijuana.

Team

Moonrise Kingdom, 1h34
Directed by Wes Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about children, Scoutisme, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand
Roles Thanks
Rating77% 3.899133.899133.899133.899133.89913
In September 1965, on a New England island called New Penzance, 12-year-old orphan Sam Shakusky is attending Camp Ivanhoe, a Khaki Scout summer camp led by Scoutmaster Randy Ward. Suzy Bishop, also 12, lives on the island with her parents, Walt and Laura, both attorneys, and her three younger brothers in a house called Summer's End. Sam and Suzy, both introverted, intelligent and mature for their age, met in the summer of 1964 during a church performance of Noye's Fludde and have been pen pals since then. Having fallen in love over the course of their correspondence, they have made a secret pact to reunite and run away together. Sam brings camping equipment, and Suzy brings her binoculars, six books, her kitten, and her brother's battery-powered record player. They hike, camp and fish together in the wilderness with the goal of reaching a secluded cove on the island. They are confronted by a group of Khaki Scouts who try to capture them, and during the resulting altercation, Suzy injures one of the Scouts with scissors and Camp Ivanhoe's dog is killed by a stray shot from a bow and arrow wielded by one of the Scouts. The Scouts flee and Sam and Suzy hike to the cove which they name Moonrise Kingdom. They set up camp and go swimming. Later, while drying off, they begin dancing to Françoise Hardy in their underwear. As the romantic tension between them grows, they kiss repeatedly.
Fantastic Mr. Fox, 1h27
Directed by Wes Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Films about foxes, Political films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Eric Chase Anderson
Roles Thanks
Rating78% 3.9489853.9489853.9489853.9489853.948985
While raiding Berk's Squab Farm, Mr. Fox and his wife Felicity trigger a fox trap and become caged. Felicity reveals to Fox that she is pregnant and pleads with him to find a safer job if they escape. Two years later, the Foxes and their sullen son Ash are living in a hole. Fox, now a newspaper columnist, moves the family into a better home in the base of a tree, ignoring the warnings of his lawyer Badger about how dangerous the area is for foxes. The tree is located very close to facilities run by three farmers: Walter Boggis, Nathaniel Bunce, and Franklin Bean. Soon after the Foxes move in, Felicity's nephew Kristofferson Silverfox comes to live with them, as his father has fallen ill with double pneumonia. Ash finds this situation intolerable; his soft-spoken cousin is apparently superior to him at almost everything, and everyone, including Fox, is charmed by Kristofferson at Ash's expense. Longing for his days as a thief, Fox and his friend Kylie Opossum steal produce and poultry from the three farms.
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, 1h36
Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jon Foster, Sienna Miller, Peter Sarsgaard, Mena Suvari, Nick Nolte, Marc Macaulay
Roles Thanks
Rating53% 2.6949852.6949852.6949852.6949852.694985
Un été 1983 dans la ville de Pittsburgh. Un jeune homme nommé Art s'apprête à vivre ses derniers mois de liberté avant d'être aspiré dans les affaires de son père, un puissant criminel. Pour lui tenir tête, il travaille dans une librairie de livres usagés, où il entretient une liaison avec la gérante, et poursuit des études pour devenir courtier. Lors d'une soirée, il fait la connaissance de Jane, une violoniste, et il en tombe amoureux. Le lendemain un mystérieux motard surgit à la librairie; il s'agit de Cleveland, l'amant de Jane, un petit truand qui invite Art à partager leurs escapades. Le jeune homme s'attache rapidement à ce couple excentrique. Plus que jamais séduit par Jane, il éprouve aussi une curieuse attirance pour Cleveland, ouvertement bisexuel.