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Roger Roberts Avary[1] (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction, for which they won Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards. Avary directed Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction, Lucky Day, and wrote the screenplays for Silent Hill and Beowulf.[2]

Roger Avary
Avary in 2012
Born	Roger Roberts Avary (1965-08-23) August 23, 1965 (age 57) Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada[1]
Nationality	Canadian American[1]
Occupation	Director, screenwriter, producer
Years active	1992–present

In 2022, Avary reunited with Quentin Tarantino to launch a podcast called The Video Archives Podcast.[3] The first episode premiered on July 19, 2022.[4]

Career

Pulp Fiction

Avary & Quentin Tarantino collaborated on the 1994 film Pulp Fiction for which they won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.[5] According to Tarantino, Avary originally came up with the plot of the boxer Butch Coolidge and his gold watch from a screenplay named Pandemonium Reigns he had written himself.[6]

The Rules of Attraction

In 2002, Avary directed The Rules of Attraction, from his adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, which he also executive produced.[7]

The Rules of Attraction was the first studio film to be edited on Apple's Final Cut Pro editing system.[8] Avary became a spokesperson for Final Cut Pro product,[9] appearing in Apple print and web ads worldwide.

In 2005, Avary, at the request of his friend, actor James Van Der Beek, played the part of a peyote-taking gonzo film director Franklin Brauner in the film Standing Still.[10]

Silent Hill

In 2006, Avary wrote a screenplay adaptation to the Konami video game, Silent Hill (2006), with French director and friend, Christophe Gans, and Killing Zoe producer Samuel Hadida. Avary and Gans being long time gamers and fans of the Silent Hill series, collaborated on the film.[11]

Beowulf

Avary and novelist Neil Gaiman wrote the screenplay for the 2007 film Beowulf which was directed by Robert Zemeckis.[12]

Lucky Day

In September 2017 Avary directed his own screenplay, Lucky Day, a semi-sequel of Killing Zoe.[13]

The Video Archives Podcast (2022–Present)

In 2021, Quentin Tarantino announced that he and Roger Avary would launch a podcast titled, 'The Video Archives Podcast'.[14] The point of the podcast is to discuss films from the actual Video Archives collection that they would recommend to customers when they worked there. The set is surrounded by actual VHS copies of films from Video Archives that Tarantino bought after the store went out of business. They are joined by podcast announcer, Gala Avary, Roger Avary's daughter. The first episode premiered on July 19, 2022.[4] The duo discussed John Carpenter's Dark Star and Cocaine Cowboys.

Manslaughter charge

On January 13, 2008, Avary was arrested under suspicion of manslaughter and DUI, following a car crash in Ojai, California, where a passenger, Andrea Zini, was killed. The Ventura County Sheriff's department responded to the crash after midnight Sunday morning on the 1900 block of East Ojai Avenue. Avary was released from jail on $50,000 bail.[15] In December 2008, he was charged with, and pleaded not guilty to, gross vehicular manslaughter and two felony counts of causing bodily injury while intoxicated.[16] On September 29, 2009, he was sentenced to one year in work furlough (allowing him to go to his job during the day and then report back to the furlough facility at night) and five years of probation.[17] However, after making several tweets about the conditions of his stay on Twitter, Avary was sent to Ventura County Jail to serve out the remainder of his term.[18]

In a 2012 interview with IndieWire, Avary said, regarding the crash and incarceration, "Incarceration didn't change me," and after a long pause, "In many, many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me." He went on to say, "I spend every waking moment thinking about how I can live my life in such a way to honor this terrible loss that occurred."[19]

In 2019, Avary said about the crash, "When something like that happens and an atom bomb sort of goes off in your life, it either blows you into pieces—if you allow it to—or you use the force of the blast to propel you forward."[20]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1993	Killing Zoe	Yes	Yes	No	Grand Prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival
1994	Pulp Fiction	No	Story	No	Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
1995	Mr. Stitch	Yes	Yes	Executive
2002	The Rules of Attraction	Yes	Yes	Executive
2004	Glitterati	Yes	Yes	Yes	Unreleased; Also editor and cinematographer
2006	Silent Hill	No	Yes	No
2007	Beowulf	No	Yes	Executive
2019	Lucky Day	Yes	Yes	No

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1997	Odd Jobs	Yes	Yes	Yes	TV pilot
2012	XIII: The Series	No	Yes	Executive	13 episodes

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1983	The Worm Turns	Yes	Yes	Yes
1983	The Boys	No	No	Yes	Also cinematographer

Other credits

Year	Title	Role
1987	Maximum Potential	Production assistant
1987	My Best Friend's Birthday	Lost film Cinematographer
1992	Reservoir Dogs	Writer of background radio dialogue[21]
1993	True Romance[21]	Uncredited writer[21]
1998	Boogie Boy	Executive producer
2000	The Last Man	Executive producer
2006	36 Steps	Spiritual support

References

External links

• Official website
• Roger Avary at AllMovie
• Roger Avary at IMDb
• Roger Avary talks to Edge Magazine about Silent Hill
• Roger Avary Interview on Suicide Girls
• Webwombat.com Interview
• Screen-It deconstructs the sex, drugs, and violence in The Rules of Attraction
• JoBlo.com Interview on Silent Hill

На других языках

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[de] Roger Avary

Roger Avary (* 23. August 1965 in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Kanada) ist ein US-amerikanischer Filmregisseur, Drehbuchautor und Filmproduzent.

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- [en] Roger Avary

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[es] Roger Avary

Roger Roberts Avary (n. 23 de agosto de 1965) es un director de cine canadiense, productor y guionista ganador del Óscar.

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[ru] Эвери, Роджер

Роджер Эвери (англ. Roger Avary; род. 23 августа 1965) — американский сценарист, продюсер и кинорежиссёр. Лауреат премии «Оскар» за лучший оригинальный сценарий к фильму «Криминальное чтиво».

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