David Scarpa
David Scarpa | |
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| Born | Fort Campbell, Kentucky, United States |
| Education | New York University |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
David Scarpa is an American screenwriter.[1][2][3] He is best known for his collaborations with director Ridley Scott, writing the screenplays for All the Money in the World (2017), about the John Paul Getty III kidnapping, Napoleon (2023), a historical biopic centered on Napoleon Bonaparte, and Gladiator II (2024), a sequel to the 2000 film Gladiator.
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Scarpa was born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and raised in Tennessee and Connecticut before attending New York University's film program.
He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Career
[edit | edit source]Scarpa began writing features. In 2005, he began developing a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Scarpa felt everything about the original film was still relevant, but changed the allegory from nuclear war to environmental damage because "the specifics of [how] we now have the capability to destroy ourselves have changed."[4] Scarpa noted the recent events of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 informed his mindset when writing the screenplay.[5] He scrapped Klaatu's speech at the conclusion of the story because "audiences today are [un]willing to tolerate that. People don't want to be preached to about the environment. We tried to avoid having our alien looking out over the garbage in the lake and crying a silent tear [from the 1970s Keep America Beautiful ads]."[6] He served as the co-showrunner for Amazon Prime Video series The Man in the High Castle season 4.
After writing All the Money in the World for director Ridley Scott, he reteamed with the director on two more projects: Napoleon, a historical epic centered on Napoleon Bonaparte, and Gladiator II.[7][8]
Upcoming projects
[edit | edit source]He is also writing Cleopatra for Sony Pictures Entertainment, with Denis Villeneuve directing. In a 2017 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Scarpa described the film as being "a two-hour, lean, mean political thriller, full of assassinations, etc.", and that it will be "going the opposite direction from the way we think that movie is going to go."[9][10][11] Scarpa is also writing the HBO miniseries Londongrad, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alexander Litvinenko, who died of polonium-210 poisoning in November 2006.[12]
Writing credits
[edit | edit source]Film
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2001 | The Last Castle | Co-written with Graham Yost |
| 2008 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | |
| 2017 | All the Money in the World | |
| 2023 | Napoleon | |
| 2024 | Gladiator II | Also story writer with Peter Craig |
Television
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2019 | The Man in the High Castle | 3 episodes; Also executive producer |
Awards and nominations
[edit | edit source]| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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| 2024 | 77th British Academy Film Awards | Outstanding British Film (shared with Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam, Kevin J. Walsh) |
Napoleon | Nominated | [13] |
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- David Scarpa at IMDb
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- Living people
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American screenwriters
- American male screenwriters
- American male television writers
- American television producers
- American television writers
- New York University alumni
- American people of Italian descent
- People from Christian County, Kentucky
- Screenwriters from Kentucky
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