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Jeremy Brock

JEREMY BROCK  

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Knight Hall Agency Ltd  represented by Charlotte Knight


Jeremy Brock's adaptation of EaGLE OF THE NINTH (Focus Features) for producer Duncan Kenworthy and director Kevin MacDonald will be released in March 2011. Jeremy is now working on TRUE CRIMES, a true story inspired by an article in the New Yorker, and THE aTTaCK, which are both for Focus Features. He is also writing THE SPaRE for Daybreak Pictures, with Peter Kosminsky attached to direct. Other new projects include the adaptation of WHaT WaS LOST for Heyday Films and Film 4 with John Crowley to direct and his adaptation of Meg Rosoff's HOW I LIVE NOW, which is with Film Four and Cowboy Films. Jeremy co-wrote THE LaST KING OF SCOTLaND (Film Four/DNa/Slate/Cowboy) starring James Mcavoy, Forest Whitaker and Gilliam anderson. The script was awarded the BAFTA for Best adapted Screenplay (2007). Jeremy's first film as Writer/Director - DRIVING LESSONS - produced by Julia Chasman (RubberTreePlant) and Ed Pressman (ContentFilm) - opened at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2006 starring Julie Walters, Laura Linney and Rupert Grint. DRIVING LESSONS was awarded the Special Jury Prize; the Russian Film Critics award; the audience award and Best actress (Julie Walters)at the Moscow International Film Festival 2006. Jeremy is currently working on a spec feature script which he will also direct. He recently teamed up with Ecosse Films once again on the feature film adaptation of BRIDESHEaD REVISITED directed by Julian Jarrold and starring Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, Hayley atwell, Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon. Jeremy's first feature film, MRS BROWN was screened in the un certain regard section of the 1997 Cannes Festival to great acclaim. Produced by Ecosse Films for the BBC and directed by John Madden, it was acquired for theatrical release by Miramax. Jeremy won The Evening Standard Best Screenplay award, and the film was nominated for two Oscars and eight BAFTA awards including Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. Judi Dench won BAFTA Best actress award for her extraordinary role as Queen Victoria. CHaRLOTTE GRaY, which Jeremy adapted from the Sebastian Faulkes novel for Ecosse Films and Film Four, was directed by Gillian armstrong starring Cate Blanchett (who described hers as "the best part written for an actress in the past twenty years"), Billy Crudup and Michael Gambon and was released in 2001. Jeremy's career began in 1985 with a play IN TIMES LIKE THESE which premiered at the Bristol Old Vic with Greta Scaachi and Tim Woodward in the lead roles. He also adapted Dickens' OLIVER TWIST directed by Phyllida Lloyd at the Bristol Old Vic in 1990. He went on to co-create (with Paul Unwin) the UK's most successful long-running drama series, CaSUaLTY, which has recently spun-off into simultaneous BBC1 series HOLBY CITY. His major BBC1 television drama series, PLOTLaNDS screened in 1997. His Central Films production THE WIDOWMaKER, directed by John Madden, was nominated for a BAFTA award. In august 1993, the critically acclaimed 15: THE LIFE aND DEaTH OF PHILIP KNIGHT - winner best single drama Prix Europa - was broadcast on primetime ITV, a Yorkshire Television production for director Peter Kosminsky. Jeremys US film agent is Brian Siberell at CAA.

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 In Times Like These         Oliver Twist         Sweet Secret England

In Times Like These

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Oliver Twist

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sinister antics of Fagin as Oliver asks for more

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book by Charles Dickens

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Samuel French, London, 1991   -

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Sweet Secret England

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