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James Greer
Greer in 2010
Occupation(s)Novelist, screenwriter, musician, critic
Years active1991-present
Websitejamesgreer.me

James Greer is an American novelist, screenwriter, musician, and critic. As a screenwriter, he is known for writing the children's comedies Max Keeble's Big Move, Just My Luck and The Spy Next Door, as well as the 2018 thriller Unsane. He lives in Los Angeles.[1]

Career as a musician/critic

Greer was senior editor and senior writer at Spin[2] magazine in New York City in the early 1990s.

He wrote and played on the song "Trendspotter Acrobat" on the album Sunfish Holy Breakfast by Guided By Voices.

Greer started a band in 2012 with French musician Lola G. called DTCV.[3] In April 2016 the band released its fourth studio album, entitled Confusion Moderne, on Xemu Records.[4]

Career as a novelist/author

Greer has published two novels, Artificial Light (Little House on the Bowery/Akashic, 2006)[5] and The Failure (Akashic, 2010).[6] Artificial Light won a California Book Award Silver Medal for First Fiction.[7]

In 2013 Greer released his first book of short fiction, titled Everything Flows, via Curbside Splendor. Publisher Weekly said of the book "Halfway between the mind of God and a vivid dream, Everything Flows is proof that there remain new places to go, both on paper and in the known universe."[8]

Career as a screenwriter

Greer has written or co-written several movies, including Max Keeble's Big Move[9] (Disney, 2001), Just My Luck[10] (20th Century Fox, 2006) starring Lindsay Lohan, the Jackie Chan vehicle The Spy Next Door[11] (Lions Gate, 2010) and Unsane,[12] directed by Steven Soderbergh, and starring Claire Foy and Juno Temple (Fingerprint Releasing, Bleecker Street, Regency, 2018). In February 2018, Deadline Hollywood reported that Greer was set to write a script called Planet Kill for Soderbergh to produce.[13]

References

  1. ^ "James Greer is comfy under the magnifying glass in new band Détective". Denverpost.com. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  2. ^ Crew, Adrienne (August 8, 2006). "Interview in LAist discussing Greer's "influence on a generation of music journalists"". Laist.com. Archived from the original on January 31, 2016. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  3. ^ "DTCV AllMusic Biography". AllMusic.com. July 10, 2016. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  4. ^ "Consequence of Sound Advance Stream of Confusion Moderne". consequenceofsound.net. April 1, 2016. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  5. ^ Jaime-Becerra, Michael (October 8, 2006). "Los Angeles Times review of Artificial Light". Articles.latimes.com. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  6. ^ Baron, Zach (March 24, 2010). "Review of ''The Failure'' in the Village Voice". Villagevoice.com. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  7. ^ Official California Book Awards Site Archived June 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Everything Flows by James Greer".
  9. ^ Max Keeble's Big Move IMDB page
  10. ^ Just My Luck IMDB page
  11. ^ The Spy Next Door IMDB page
  12. ^ Kroll, Justin (July 18, 2017). "Juno Temple to Co-Star With Claire Foy in Steven Soderbergh's Next Movie (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
  13. ^ Busch, Anita (February 1, 2018). "Studio 8 Acquires 'Planet Kill' For Steven Soderbergh To Produce, May Direct". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
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