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Robert Towne

May 04, 2023

Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He started with writing films for Roger Corman including The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). Later, he became a well-known figure of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays.[3] Towne also wrote the sequel, The Two Jakes (1990); the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail (1973) and Shampoo (1975). He is also known for his collaborations with Tom Cruise on the films Days of Thunder (1990), The Firm (1993) and the first two installments of Mission: Impossible franchise (1996, 2000).

Robert Towne
Towne in 2006
Born
Robert Bertram Schwartz[1][2]

(1934-11-23) November 23, 1934 (age 88)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materPomona College
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • director
  • producer
  • actor
Years active1960–present
Spouses
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(m. 1977; div. 1982)​
Luisa Gaule
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(m. 1984)​
Children2
RelativesJocelyn Towne (niece)

Towne directed the sports dramas Personal Best (1982) and Without Limits (1998), the crime thriller Tequila Sunrise (1988), and the romantic crime drama Ask the Dust (2006).

Early life

Towne was born Robert Bertram Schwartz in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in San Pedro, the son of Helen and Lou Schwartz.[4] He is of Romanian descent through his father, and Russian descent through his mother; the family was Jewish.[5] He has a younger brother, Roger,[1] who co-wrote the 1984 film The Natural starring Robert Redford.[6]

He graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, California.[7]

Career

Roger Corman

Towne originally sought work as a writer and actor. He took an acting class with Roger Corman taught by Jeff Corey where his classmates also included Jack Nicholson (with whom he shared an apartment), Irvin Kershner, and Sally Kellerman.[8]

Corman was renowned for giving work to untested people of talent. Towne wrote the screenplay for the Corman-financed Last Woman on Earth (1960), in which Towne also played one of the lead roles.

The following year he also starred in the Corman-financed Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961).

Television

Towne started writing for television on such programs as The Lloyd Bridges Show, Breaking Point, The Outer Limits, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

He also wrote a screenplay for the Corman-directed The Tomb of Ligeia (1965). In 1981 Towne said "I worked harder on... [that] screenplay for him than on anything I think I have ever done."[8]

Towne went back to working in television when Corman hired him to write a script for a Western, which became A Time for Killing (1967). Corman left the project during filming and Towne took his name off the credits. Towne said later he "hated" the film.[9]

Script doctor

Towne's script for A Time for Killing had been read and admired by Warren Beatty who asked Towne to help out on the script for Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Towne later claimed his main contributions were removing the ménage à trois relationship between Bonnie, Clyde, and W.D., making some structural changes.[10] Towne was on set during filming and continued to work during post-production. The film was a huge success and although Towne's contribution was credited only as a "special consultant", he began to earn a reputation in Hollywood as a top script doctor.[11]

Towne was credited on Villa Rides (1968), which he later said he did as a favor for Robert Evans, head of Paramount. He hated the experience.[12]

Towne did uncredited work on the scripts for Drive, He Said (1971), directed by Jack Nicholson; Cisco Pike (1972), which Towne said turned into "a pretty good movie" but where he got "so angry with the director" he took his name off;[9] and The New Centurions (1972), where he was to share credit with Stirling Silliphant but asked for his name to be taken off after he saw the film.[13]

He did uncredited work for Francis Ford Coppola during the making of The Godfather (1972), mostly the final scene between Michael and Vito, shortly before Vito dies.[11] Coppola thanked Towne in his Academy Award speech for Best Screenplay.

Towne also did some work on The Parallax View (1974) at the behest of star Warren Beatty.

The Last Detail, Chinatown, and Shampoo

Towne received great acclaim for his film scripts The Last Detail (1973), Chinatown (1974), and Shampoo (1975). He was nominated for an Oscar for all three scripts, winning for Chinatown.[14][15][16] He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams's Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946) and a West magazine article on Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles.

According to Sam Wasson's The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood, Towne "secretly employed an old college friend named Edward Taylor as his uncredited writing partner for more than 40 years."[17]

Towne was credited for his work on The Yakuza (1975) and did script doctoring on The Missouri Breaks (1976), Orca (1977) and Heaven Can Wait (1978).

Director

Towne turned to directing with Personal Best (1982). He also wrote the script for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, hoping to direct, but Personal Best was a financial failure, meaning he had to sell the Greystoke script. He grew dissatisfied with the production and credited his dog, P. H. Vazak, with the script. Vazak became the first dog nominated for an Oscar for screenwriting.[18]

Towne did uncredited work on Deal of the Century (1983), 8 Million Ways to Die (1986) ([19]), Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987) and Frantic (1988).

His second feature film as director was Tequila Sunrise (1988), which he wrote back in the early 1980s. Towne told The New York Times that Tequila Sunrise is "a movie about the use and abuse of friendship."[15]

The Two Jakes

Towne has expressed his disappointment in The Two Jakes in many interviews.[citation needed] He told writer Alex Simon, "In the interest of maintaining my friendships with Jack Nicholson and Robert Evans, I’d rather not go into it, but let’s just say The Two Jakes wasn’t a pleasant experience for any of us. But, we’re all still friends, and that’s what matters most."[20]

In a November 5, 2007, interview with MTV, Jack Nicholson claimed that Towne had written the part of Gittes specifically for him. In the same interview, Nicholson also said that Towne had conceived Chinatown as a trilogy, with the third film set in 1968 and dealing in some way with Howard Hughes.[21] However, Towne says he "does not know how that got started" and denies there was any trilogy planned.

Tom Cruise

Towne wrote the script for Days of Thunder (1990) and formed a close friendship with its star Tom Cruise.

He was one of the writers on Cruise's The Firm (1993), then Beatty's Love Affair (1994). Cruise brought him on to Mission: Impossible (1996) and co-produced Towne's third film as director, Without Limits (1998). He also co-wrote Mission Impossible II (2000) for Cruise.

Later career

A project Towne had long sought to bring to the screen came to fruition in 2006 with Ask the Dust, a romantic period piece set in Los Angeles based on the acclaimed novel by John Fante and starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek. Towne had found the novel decades earlier during his research for Chinatown, as he was looking for authentic descriptions of 1930s Los Angeles. He enjoyed the book, considering it "the best book about Los Angeles ever written", and arranged a meeting with Fante, himself a screenwriter. As a result of that meeting, Towne was granted the screen rights to the novel. The rights eventually lapsed, and the new owner was Mel Brooks. In 1993, Towne wrote the script for free in exchange for the chance to direct the film.[22] Tom Cruise (with Paula Wagner and Cruise/Wagner Productions) served as one of the film's producers. Ask the Dust received mixed reviews and failed at the box office. The film was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival.[23]

Towne has framed several of his signature films as elaborate melodramas. He told The New York Times "I think melodrama is always a splendid occasion to entertain an audience and say things you want to say without rubbing their noses in it. With melodrama, as in dreams, you're always flirting with the disparity between appearance and reality, which is a great deal of fun. And that's also not unrelated to my perception of my life working in Hollywood, where you're always wondering, 'What does that guy really mean?'"[15]

In 2006, Towne was the subject of artist Sarah Morris's film, Robert Towne. Morris describes him as an “elliptical figure” whose career exemplifies a certain characteristic mode of working in the film industry, marked by collaboration, shared or changing roles.[24] Morris's 19,744-square-foot (1,834.3 m2) painting installation in the lobby of the Lever House in Manhattan, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, was also titled "Robert Towne".[25]

Return to television

In the 2010s, Towne returned to television, working as a consulting producer on Mad Men and writing two episodes of Welcome to the Basement.[26]

Personal life

In 1968, Towne met actress Julie Payne; they were married from 1977 to 1982.[27] According to Sam Wasson's The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood, Towne was addicted to cocaine during this period and was occasionally violent, which led to a bitter divorce and custody battle over their daughter Katharine (born 1978).

In 1984, Towne married Luisa Gaule. They have one daughter, Chiara.[28]

He is the former son-in-law of late actor John Payne and actress Anne Shirley. Through his daughter Katharine, his former son-in-law is actor Charlie Hunnam.

Filmography

Credits as writer-director

Credits as writer only

Credits as actor

Other credits

Unmade projects

Future projects

In 2011, Towne was announced as writer-director of The 39 Steps, a proposed remake of the 1935 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.[citation needed] The British producer Graham King revealed that he had hired Towne to write a remake of Battle of Britain in a December 2011 interview.[citation needed]

In November 2019, it was reported that David Fincher and Towne would write a Chinatown prequel series for Netflix about Jake Gittes starting his agency.[32]

Legacy and honors

In the book Fifty Filmmakers, journalist Andrew J. Rausch argues, "There is a strong case to be made that Robert Towne is the most gifted scribe ever to write for film. There can be little doubt that he is one of the finest ever."[33]

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b Biskind, Peter (1999). Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. Simon & Schuster. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7475-4421-0.
  2. ^ According to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. Searchable at http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/39461
  3. ^ Tobias, Scott (2019-10-29). "Being John Malkovich at 20: why the surrealist comedy demands a rewatch". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  4. ^ "Robert Towne Biography (1934–)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
  5. ^ "Lennon, Elaine: The screenplays of Robert Towne 1960-2000. Dublin Institute of Technology, 2009". Retrieved 2013-06-14.
  6. ^ The Natural at the American Film Institute Catalog
  7. ^ "The Robert Towne Page". SuperiorPics.com. Retrieved April 13, 2010.
  8. ^ a b Brady p 390
  9. ^ a b Brady p 388
  10. ^ Brady p 396-398
  11. ^ a b Brady p 399
  12. ^ Brady p 386-387
  13. ^ Brady p 387
  14. ^ McDougal, Dennis (2008) Five easy decades pp.146, 182, 416
  15. ^ a b c Turan, Kenneth (1988-11-27). "Robert Towne's Hollywood Without Heroes". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  16. ^ Nicolas Cage, DVD commentary, The Rock Criterion Collection
  17. ^ Horowitz, Mark (15 March 2020). "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". No. Book Review p. 21. The New York Times Company.
  18. ^ Ward, Jason. "Intriguing film credits that you probably missed". hwww.dazeddigital.com. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  19. ^ Kornits, Dov (1999-08-27). "Robert Towne – From Chinatown to Hollywood". eFilmCritic.com. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  20. ^ Towne, Robert (2012-12-06). "Robert Towne Dusts Off a Classic". The Hollywood Interview (Interview). Interviewed by Alex Simon. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  21. ^ . Mtv.com. 2007-11-05 http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1573487/story.jhtml. Retrieved 2013-06-14. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  22. ^ Anderson, Jeffrey M. (2006-02-07). "Interview with Robert Towne: From 'Dust' to 'Dust'". Combustible Celluloid. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  23. ^ . MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2013-04-21.
  24. ^ "Public Art Fund"
  25. ^ Schlesinger, Toni (2006-09-18). "Wonderful Towne! Lever House Hosts Homage to Screenwriter". The New York Observer. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  26. ^ "Robert Towne". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
  27. ^ "Julie Payne Obituary (2019) Los Angeles Times". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
  28. ^ "Chiara Towne". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
  29. ^ Finstad, Suzanne (2006). "Act 4: The Pro". Warren Beatty: A Private Man. Crown/Archetype. p. 440. ISBN 9780307345295.
  30. ^ Mitchell, Deborah C. (2001). "1978–1971 The Muse". Diane Keaton: Artist and Icon. McFarland. p. 63. ISBN 9780786410828.
  31. ^ Mark McGee, Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures, McFarland, 1996 p201
  32. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (November 19, 2019). "Netflix Teams Robert Towne And David Fincher for 'Chinatown' Prequel Series Pilot Script". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  33. ^ Rausch, Andrew J. (2008). Fifty Filmmakers: Conversations with Directors from Roger Avary to Steven Zaillian. McFarland. p. 244. ISBN 978-0786431496.

Notes

  • Brady, John (1981). The Craft of the Screenwriter.

External links

  • Robert Towne at IMDb

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Robert Towne born Robert Bertram Schwartz November 23 1934 is an American screenwriter producer director and actor He started with writing films for Roger Corman including The Tomb of Ligeia 1964 Later he became a well known figure of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking He is best known for his Academy Award winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski s Chinatown 1974 which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays 3 Towne also wrote the sequel The Two Jakes 1990 the Hal Ashby comedy dramas The Last Detail 1973 and Shampoo 1975 He is also known for his collaborations with Tom Cruise on the films Days of Thunder 1990 The Firm 1993 and the first two installments of Mission Impossible franchise 1996 2000 Robert TowneTowne in 2006BornRobert Bertram Schwartz 1 2 1934 11 23 November 23 1934 age 88 Los Angeles California U S Alma materPomona CollegeOccupationsScreenwriterdirectorproduceractorYears active1960 presentSpousesJulie Payne m 1977 div 1982 wbr Luisa Gaule m 1984 wbr Children2RelativesJocelyn Towne niece Towne directed the sports dramas Personal Best 1982 and Without Limits 1998 the crime thriller Tequila Sunrise 1988 and the romantic crime drama Ask the Dust 2006 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Roger Corman 2 2 Television 2 3 Script doctor 2 4 The Last Detail Chinatown and Shampoo 2 5 Director 2 6 The Two Jakes 2 7 Tom Cruise 2 8 Later career 2 9 Return to television 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4 1 Credits as writer director 4 2 Credits as writer only 4 3 Credits as actor 4 4 Other credits 4 5 Unmade projects 4 5 1 Future projects 5 Legacy and honors 6 References 7 Notes 8 External linksEarly life EditTowne was born Robert Bertram Schwartz in Los Angeles California and grew up in San Pedro the son of Helen and Lou Schwartz 4 He is of Romanian descent through his father and Russian descent through his mother the family was Jewish 5 He has a younger brother Roger 1 who co wrote the 1984 film The Natural starring Robert Redford 6 He graduated from Pomona College in Claremont California 7 Career EditRoger Corman Edit Towne originally sought work as a writer and actor He took an acting class with Roger Corman taught by Jeff Corey where his classmates also included Jack Nicholson with whom he shared an apartment Irvin Kershner and Sally Kellerman 8 Corman was renowned for giving work to untested people of talent Towne wrote the screenplay for the Corman financed Last Woman on Earth 1960 in which Towne also played one of the lead roles The following year he also starred in the Corman financed Creature from the Haunted Sea 1961 Television Edit Towne started writing for television on such programs as The Lloyd Bridges Show Breaking Point The Outer Limits and The Man from U N C L E He also wrote a screenplay for the Corman directed The Tomb of Ligeia 1965 In 1981 Towne said I worked harder on that screenplay for him than on anything I think I have ever done 8 Towne went back to working in television when Corman hired him to write a script for a Western which became A Time for Killing 1967 Corman left the project during filming and Towne took his name off the credits Towne said later he hated the film 9 Script doctor Edit Towne s script for A Time for Killing had been read and admired by Warren Beatty who asked Towne to help out on the script for Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Towne later claimed his main contributions were removing the menage a trois relationship between Bonnie Clyde and W D making some structural changes 10 Towne was on set during filming and continued to work during post production The film was a huge success and although Towne s contribution was credited only as a special consultant he began to earn a reputation in Hollywood as a top script doctor 11 Towne was credited on Villa Rides 1968 which he later said he did as a favor for Robert Evans head of Paramount He hated the experience 12 Towne did uncredited work on the scripts for Drive He Said 1971 directed by Jack Nicholson Cisco Pike 1972 which Towne said turned into a pretty good movie but where he got so angry with the director he took his name off 9 and The New Centurions 1972 where he was to share credit with Stirling Silliphant but asked for his name to be taken off after he saw the film 13 He did uncredited work for Francis Ford Coppola during the making of The Godfather 1972 mostly the final scene between Michael and Vito shortly before Vito dies 11 Coppola thanked Towne in his Academy Award speech for Best Screenplay Towne also did some work on The Parallax View 1974 at the behest of star Warren Beatty The Last Detail Chinatown and Shampoo Edit Towne received great acclaim for his film scripts The Last Detail 1973 Chinatown 1974 and Shampoo 1975 He was nominated for an Oscar for all three scripts winning for Chinatown 14 15 16 He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams s Southern California Country An Island on the Land 1946 and a West magazine article on Raymond Chandler s Los Angeles According to Sam Wasson s The Big Goodbye Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood Towne secretly employed an old college friend named Edward Taylor as his uncredited writing partner for more than 40 years 17 Towne was credited for his work on The Yakuza 1975 and did script doctoring on The Missouri Breaks 1976 Orca 1977 and Heaven Can Wait 1978 Director Edit Towne turned to directing with Personal Best 1982 He also wrote the script for Greystoke The Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes hoping to direct but Personal Best was a financial failure meaning he had to sell the Greystoke script He grew dissatisfied with the production and credited his dog P H Vazak with the script Vazak became the first dog nominated for an Oscar for screenwriting 18 Towne did uncredited work on Deal of the Century 1983 8 Million Ways to Die 1986 19 Tough Guys Don t Dance 1987 and Frantic 1988 His second feature film as director was Tequila Sunrise 1988 which he wrote back in the early 1980s Towne told The New York Times that Tequila Sunrise is a movie about the use and abuse of friendship 15 The Two Jakes Edit Towne has expressed his disappointment in The Two Jakes in many interviews citation needed He told writer Alex Simon In the interest of maintaining my friendships with Jack Nicholson and Robert Evans I d rather not go into it but let s just say The Two Jakes wasn t a pleasant experience for any of us But we re all still friends and that s what matters most 20 In a November 5 2007 interview with MTV Jack Nicholson claimed that Towne had written the part of Gittes specifically for him In the same interview Nicholson also said that Towne had conceived Chinatown as a trilogy with the third film set in 1968 and dealing in some way with Howard Hughes 21 However Towne says he does not know how that got started and denies there was any trilogy planned Tom Cruise Edit Towne wrote the script for Days of Thunder 1990 and formed a close friendship with its star Tom Cruise He was one of the writers on Cruise s The Firm 1993 then Beatty s Love Affair 1994 Cruise brought him on to Mission Impossible 1996 and co produced Towne s third film as director Without Limits 1998 He also co wrote Mission Impossible II 2000 for Cruise Later career Edit A project Towne had long sought to bring to the screen came to fruition in 2006 with Ask the Dust a romantic period piece set in Los Angeles based on the acclaimed novel by John Fante and starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek Towne had found the novel decades earlier during his research for Chinatown as he was looking for authentic descriptions of 1930s Los Angeles He enjoyed the book considering it the best book about Los Angeles ever written and arranged a meeting with Fante himself a screenwriter As a result of that meeting Towne was granted the screen rights to the novel The rights eventually lapsed and the new owner was Mel Brooks In 1993 Towne wrote the script for free in exchange for the chance to direct the film 22 Tom Cruise with Paula Wagner and Cruise Wagner Productions served as one of the film s producers Ask the Dust received mixed reviews and failed at the box office The film was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival 23 Towne has framed several of his signature films as elaborate melodramas He told The New York Times I think melodrama is always a splendid occasion to entertain an audience and say things you want to say without rubbing their noses in it With melodrama as in dreams you re always flirting with the disparity between appearance and reality which is a great deal of fun And that s also not unrelated to my perception of my life working in Hollywood where you re always wondering What does that guy really mean 15 In 2006 Towne was the subject of artist Sarah Morris s film Robert Towne Morris describes him as an elliptical figure whose career exemplifies a certain characteristic mode of working in the film industry marked by collaboration shared or changing roles 24 Morris s 19 744 square foot 1 834 3 m2 painting installation in the lobby of the Lever House in Manhattan commissioned by the Public Art Fund was also titled Robert Towne 25 Return to television Edit In the 2010s Towne returned to television working as a consulting producer on Mad Men and writing two episodes of Welcome to the Basement 26 Personal life EditIn 1968 Towne met actress Julie Payne they were married from 1977 to 1982 27 According to Sam Wasson s The Big Goodbye Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood Towne was addicted to cocaine during this period and was occasionally violent which led to a bitter divorce and custody battle over their daughter Katharine born 1978 In 1984 Towne married Luisa Gaule They have one daughter Chiara 28 He is the former son in law of late actor John Payne and actress Anne Shirley Through his daughter Katharine his former son in law is actor Charlie Hunnam Filmography EditCredits as writer director Edit Personal Best 1982 also producer Tequila Sunrise 1988 Without Limits 1998 Ask the Dust 2006 Credits as writer only Edit Last Woman on Earth 1960 The Lloyd Bridges Show 1963 64 TV series episodes A Personal Matter My Daddy Can Lick Your Daddy Breaking Point 1964 TV series episode So Many Pretty Girls So Little Time The Outer Limits 1964 TV series episode The Chameleon The Tomb of Ligeia 1964 The Man from U N C L E 1964 TV series episode The Dove Affair Bonnie and Clyde 1967 credited as special consultant Villa Rides 1968 Drive He Said 1971 uncredited Cisco Pike 1972 uncredited The New Centurions 1972 uncredited The Godfather 1972 uncredited The Last Detail 1973 Chinatown 1974 The Parallax View 1974 uncredited The Yakuza 1974 Shampoo 1975 The Missouri Breaks 1976 uncredited Marathon Man 1976 uncredited Orca 1977 uncredited Heaven Can Wait 1978 uncredited Reds 1981 uncredited consultant 29 30 Deal of the Century 1983 uncredited Swing Shift 1984 uncredited Greystoke The Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes 1984 as P H Vazak 8 Million Ways to Die 1986 uncredited Tough Guys Don t Dance 1987 uncredited Frantic 1988 uncredited The Two Jakes 1990 Days of Thunder 1990 The Firm 1993 Love Affair 1994 Crimson Tide 1995 uncredited Mission Impossible 1996 Mission Impossible 2 2000 Credits as actor Edit Last Woman on Earth 1960 as Martin Joyce as Edward Wain Creature from the Haunted Sea 1961 as Sparks Moran Agent XK150 Narrator as Edward Wain The Zodiac Killer 1971 as Man in Bar 3 as Robert Tubin Drive He Said 1971 as Richard Shampoo 1975 as Party Guest uncredited The Pick up Artist 1987 as Stan Suspect Zero 2004 as Professor Dates uncredited Other credits Edit The Young Racers 1963 assistant directorUnmade projects Edit I Flew a Spy Plane Over Russia 1962 script for Roger Corman 31 Future projects Edit In 2011 Towne was announced as writer director of The 39 Steps a proposed remake of the 1935 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock citation needed The British producer Graham King revealed that he had hired Towne to write a remake of Battle of Britain in a December 2011 interview citation needed In November 2019 it was reported that David Fincher and Towne would write a Chinatown prequel series for Netflix about Jake Gittes starting his agency 32 Legacy and honors EditIn the book Fifty Filmmakers journalist Andrew J Rausch argues There is a strong case to be made that Robert Towne is the most gifted scribe ever to write for film There can be little doubt that he is one of the finest ever 33 Awards Academy Award 1974 Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay The Last Detail 1975 Won Best Original Screenplay Chinatown 1976 Nominated Best Original Screenplay Shampoo 1985 Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay Greystoke The Legend of Tarzan BAFTA Award 1975 Won Best Screenplay The Last Detail and Chinatown Golden Globe Award 1975 Won Best Screenplay Motion Picture Chinatown Edgar Award 1975 Won Best Motion Picture Chinatown Author Writers Guild of America Award 1997 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Nantucket Film Festival 2015 Screenwriters Tribute AwardReferences Edit a b Biskind Peter 1999 Easy Riders Raging Bulls Simon amp Schuster p 30 ISBN 978 0 7475 4421 0 According to the State of California California Birth Index 1905 1995 Center for Health Statistics California Department of Health Services Sacramento California Searchable at http www familytreelegends com records 39461 Tobias Scott 2019 10 29 Being John Malkovich at 20 why the surrealist comedy demands a rewatch The Guardian Retrieved 2020 03 29 Robert Towne Biography 1934 Filmreference com Retrieved 2013 06 14 Lennon Elaine The screenplays of Robert Towne 1960 2000 Dublin Institute of Technology 2009 Retrieved 2013 06 14 The Natural at the American Film Institute Catalog The Robert Towne Page SuperiorPics com Retrieved April 13 2010 a b Brady p 390 a b Brady p 388 Brady p 396 398 a b Brady p 399 Brady p 386 387 Brady p 387 McDougal Dennis 2008 Five easy decades pp 146 182 416 a b c Turan Kenneth 1988 11 27 Robert Towne s Hollywood Without Heroes The New York Times Retrieved 2020 03 29 Nicolas Cage DVD commentary The Rock Criterion Collection Horowitz Mark 15 March 2020 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood No Book Review p 21 The New York Times Company Ward Jason Intriguing film credits that you probably missed hwww dazeddigital com Retrieved 13 September 2022 Kornits Dov 1999 08 27 Robert Towne From Chinatown to Hollywood eFilmCritic com Retrieved 2020 03 29 Towne Robert 2012 12 06 Robert Towne Dusts Off a Classic The Hollywood Interview Interview Interviewed by Alex Simon Retrieved 2020 03 29 Mtv com 2007 11 05 http www mtv com movies news articles 1573487 story jhtml Retrieved 2013 06 14 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty title help Anderson Jeffrey M 2006 02 07 Interview with Robert Towne From Dust to Dust Combustible Celluloid Retrieved 2020 03 29 28th Moscow International Film Festival 2006 MIFF Archived from the original on 2013 04 21 Retrieved 2013 04 21 Public Art Fund Schlesinger Toni 2006 09 18 Wonderful Towne Lever House Hosts Homage to Screenwriter The New York Observer Retrieved 2020 03 29 Robert Towne IMDb Retrieved 2021 08 28 Julie Payne Obituary 2019 Los Angeles Times Legacy com Retrieved 2021 08 28 Chiara Towne IMDb Retrieved 2021 08 28 Finstad Suzanne 2006 Act 4 The Pro Warren Beatty A Private Man Crown Archetype p 440 ISBN 9780307345295 Mitchell Deborah C 2001 1978 1971 The Muse Diane Keaton Artist and Icon McFarland p 63 ISBN 9780786410828 Mark McGee Faster and Furiouser The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures McFarland 1996 p201 Fleming Mike Jr November 19 2019 Netflix Teams Robert Towne And David Fincher for Chinatown Prequel Series Pilot Script Deadline Hollywood Retrieved June 16 2021 Rausch Andrew J 2008 Fifty Filmmakers Conversations with Directors from Roger Avary to Steven Zaillian McFarland p 244 ISBN 978 0786431496 Notes EditBrady John 1981 The Craft of the Screenwriter External links EditRobert Towne 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