George Nolfi
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George Nolfi is an American screenwriter. He directed the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau, which he also wrote (adapted from a short story by Philip K. Dick).[1]
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[edit] Life and career
Nolfi was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended James Hart Junior High School (Homewood, IL) and high school at Homewood Flossmoor High School (Flossmoor, IL), in the south suburbs of Chicago. He graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude with a bachelor's in public policy and was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to Oxford University. He completed some graduate work there in philosophy and then switched to the doctoral program in political science at UCLA.
[edit] Films
Nolfi sold his first spec script, Pathfinder (as yet unproduced), before completing his Ph.D. and left UCLA with a master's degree.
In 2004, he adapted his spec screenplay Honor Among Thieves (previously considered as a John Woo vehicle) into the sequel to Ocean's Eleven called Ocean's Twelve.[2] He has also written screenplays for Timeline and The Sentinel. He co-wrote The Bourne Ultimatum with Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, and Tom Stoppard.
[edit] Filmography
- Timeline (with Jeff Maguire) (2003)
- Ocean's Twelve (2004)
- The Sentinel (2006) (also Co-Producer)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (with Tony Gilroy and Scott Z. Burns) (2007)
- The Adjustment Bureau (2011) (also Director/Producer)
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