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Name
  
Doug Richardson

Role
  
Screenwriter


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Education
  
University of Southern California

Movies
  
Die Hard 2, Bad Boys, Hostage, Money Train, Welcome to Mooseport

Books
  
Stealth Warplanes, Blood Money, Squeeze Your Time: A Mindset, An Illustrated Survey Of, Modern warplanes

Similar People
  
Steven E de Souza, Walter Wager, Florent Emilio Siri, Roderick Thorp, Lawrence Gordon

Occupation
  
Screenwriter, novelist

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Doug Richardson is an American screenwriter and novelist, who specializes in action movies and thrillers.

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He first made an impression with his as yet unproduced spec script Hell Bent... and Back which sold for one million dollars. He wrote an adaptation of Walter Wager's novel 58 Minutes which became the basis for the sequel Die Hard 2. Other screenplays include Bad Boys and Hostage.

His novels include 99 Percent Kill: A Lucky Dey Thriler, Blood Money, The Safety Expert, True Believers, and Dark Horse. Richardson's first non-fiction book, The Smoking Gun: True Tales from Hollywood's Screenwriting Trenches is a collection of popular weekly blogs from his website.

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Novels

  • Dark Horse (1997)
  • True Believers (1999)
  • The Safety Expert (2011)
  • Blood Money (2013)
  • 99 Percent Kill: A Lucky Dey Thriller (2015)
  • Nonfiction

  • The Smoking Gun: True Tales from Hollywood's Screenwriting Trenches (2015)
  • Filmography

  • Die Hard 2 (1990) (Screenplay)
  • Money Train (1995) (Screenplay)
  • Bad Boys (1995) (Screenplay)
  • Welcome to Mooseport (2004) (Story/Executive Producer)
  • Hostage (2005) (Screenplay)
  • Live Free or Die Hard (2007) (Re-write)
  • True Believers (2009) (In Development)
  • References

    Doug Richardson Wikipedia