Shane Black
Shane Black
Shane Black is an American screenwriter, director, producer and actor. He wrote the 1987 action movie hit Lethal Weapon, and made his directorial debut with the film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in 2005. His acting credits include appearing in the original Predator film, for which he is currently set to write and direct in the next installment...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth16 December 1961
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I felt like we were taking a bit of a chance, ... Val has his own reputation, but as soon as we got going I was like, 'Why didn't anyone think of teaming these guys up together before?'
I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I start a new script I start picking through the pieces. Suddenly you get five pieces together and think: this is almost the first Act of a movie, if I flesh it out a bit.
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.
Don't worry. I saw 'Lord of the Rings'; I'm not gonna have the movie end 20 times.
I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.
With Val and Robert in the roles, the great thing was I didn't know what that was even going to look like,
Depending on how much you like these guys, you may want to take another trip with them. It's certainly fun to write about these characters.
Robert would come in and read just for the fun of it, and I'd be like, 'Hey, that's exactly what I had in mind,'
He's not Mel Gibson, he's not Val Kilmer, and he's certainly not Damon Wayans. He's actually the cool-headed one.
I could direct it and steer it, but I just wanted to see what comes of that.
I owe a great deal of thanks to this man who will be gracious enough to say I've helped him with his career and comeback, but it's every bit the opposite.
I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.
I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.
I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.