Steve Kloves

Stephen Keith Kloves born March 18 1960 is an American screenwriter director and producer He wrote and directed the film The Fabulous Baker Boys and is mainly known for his screenplay adaptations of novels especially for all but one of the Harry Potter films the exception being The Order of the Phoenix and for Wonder Boys for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Kloves born in Austin Texas grew up in Sunnyvale California where he graduated from Fremont High School He attended the University of California Los Angeles but dropped out when he was not admitted into the film school in his third year As an unpaid intern for a Hollywood agent he gained attention for a screenplay he wrote called Swings This led to a meeting where he successfully pitched Racing with the Moon 1984 His first experience with professional screenwriting left him wanting more interaction with the actors so that the characters would stay true to his vision Kloves wrote The Fabulous Baker Boys and also intended it to be his directorial debut After years of trying to sell the project in Hollywood the film finally got off the ground and was released in 1989 The Fabulous Baker Boys did reasonably well and was critically acclaimed but his next shot as writerdirector for Flesh and Bone in 1993 fared poorly at the box office Kloves then stopped writing for three years Realising that he had to return to writing to support his family he began adapting Michael Chabons novel Wonder Boys into a screenplay Kloves was offered the chance to direct but he declined preferring to direct only his own original work This was his first try at adapting another work to film His screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award after the films release in 2000 Warner Bros sent Kloves a list of novels that the company was considering adapting as films The listing included the first Harry Potter novel which intrigued him despite his usual indifference to these catalogs He went on to write the screenplays for the first four films in the series However he turned down writing the fifth film stating that The fourth film Goblet of Fire was really hard to do I wrote on it for two years But its not that simple and I dont know that Ill ever fully understand why I didnt do it After Michael Goldenberg wrote the screenplay for the fifth film Kloves then returned to write the sixth seventh and eighth installments In 2011 Kloves was attached to work on a film adaptation of Mark Haddons novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime Since 2016 Kloves produced the Fantastic Beasts films a spinoff prequel series to the main Harry Potter series Kloves cowrote the third installment with JK Rowling Kloves produced the Andy Serkisdirected movie Mowgli Legend of the Jungle His daughter Callie wrote the screenplay Kloves is now set to write the screenplay for the film adaptation of T J Newmans novel Drowning The Rescue of Flight 1421 for Warner Bros Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve Kloves licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia