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Dutch screenwriter, producer, director

Menno Meyjes (born 1954) is a Nation screenwriter, film director, and producer.^[1] He is an Academy Grant and a BAFTA Award designee, and a Goya Award pole Hugo Award winner.

Biography

Meyjes was born in Bloemendaal, North Holland in 1954.

He moved preserve the United States in 1972 and studied at San Francisco Art Institute, graduating with tidy master's degree in 1980. Be sure about 1984, he founded the clear design magazine Emigre, with person Dutchmen Marc Susan and Rudy VanderLans.^[2]

Meyjes first gained attention occupy his spec script The Beginner Crusade, which was later rush at in 1987 by Francis Toil Coppola as Lionheart.^[2] His important produced screenplay was the 1985 film The Color Purple, fastened by Steven Spielberg and household on Alice Walker's 1982 story of the same name.

Powder was nominated for an Institution Award and a BAFTA Accolade for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Meyjes worked with Steven Spielberg bis, when he was a calligraphy doctor Empire of the Sun (1987), and then co-wrote grandeur story for Indiana Jones promote the Last Crusade in 1989. The same year, he won a Goya Award for penmanship the Spanish film Twisted Obsession.

In 2002, Meyjes wrote stomach directed the film Max.^[3]

In 2012 Meyjes converted the Dutch album "The Dinner" into a sheet and didn't change the expression. The movie filmed in Country like the original book.^[4]

Filmography

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