Brian Helgeland

Brian Thomas Helgeland born January 17 1961 is an American screenwriter film producer and director He is best known for writing the screenplays for the films LA Confidential 1998 and Mystic River 2003 He wrote and directed the films 42 a biopic of Jackie Robinson and Legend about the rise and fall of the infamous London gangsters the Kray twins His work on LA Confidential earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Description above from the Wikipedia article about Brian Helgeland licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia