Stuart Beattie
Writer · b. 1972
Stuart Beattie (born 4 August 1971) is an Australian filmmaker. His screenplay for Collateral(2004) earned him nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay and Saturn Award for Best Writing. Beattie was born in Melbourne and raised in Sydney. He attended Knox Grammar School in Sydney, where his mother, Sandra, was a languages teacher, and later Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stuart Beattie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie6.3DocumentaryThis documentary chronicles the making of the film Collateral (2004). We get to see Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx training for their roles, as well as Jada Pinket Smith's Audition. Michael Mann also informs us on his preparation for the film, as well as some more behind-the-scenes looks at the 17 special camera-ready taxis and the taxi crash.
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
2004 · 4 votes
Movie4.8DocumentaryActionA documentary about the making of Derailed (2005).
The Making of Derailed
2006 · 5 votes
MovieDocumentaryAfter 15 years in the business, Stuart Beattie has learned a thing or two about how to make characters sing (or sting) on the page. Listen in as he describes how to stay hungry when you can't get anyone to read your scripts and how he came up with Pirates of the Caribbean and Collateral.