David Magee

David Magee (born 1962) is an American screenwriter, who was nominated for a 2004 Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Finding Neverland. Along with Simon Beaufoy he wrote the screenplay for Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams, which was released in 2008.

His screen adaptation of the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel was directed by Ang Lee, released in 2012, and earned him a Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

He is currently writing the screenplay for the Disney musical "Mary Poppins Returns," directed by Rob Marshall, with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The film will star Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda and is scheduled for release December 2018.^[1]

Magee is also the screenwriter for the next Chronicles Of Narnia: The Silver Chair, which is being produced by the Mark Gordon Company and released by TriStar films.^[2]

References

External links

David Magee at the Internet Movie Database

Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Anthony Minghella (1996)
Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
Bill Condon (1998)
John Irving (1999)
Doug Wright (2000)
Robert Festinger and Todd Field (2001)
Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002)
Brian Helgeland (2003)
Paul Haggis (2004)
Robin Swicord (2005)
William Monahan (2006)
Christopher Hampton (2007)
Peter Morgan (2008)
Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009)
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon (2011)
David Magee (2012)
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (2013)
Graham Moore (2014)
Aaron Sorkin (2015)

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