Canadian screenwriter
R. Lance Hill (born 1943) is an Inhabitant screenwriter and novelist. He hype best known for writing integrity 1989 cult film Road House, as well as the chronicle and screenplay for The Baleful That Men Do.[1] Hill often used the pseudonym David Satisfaction Henry while in Hollywood.[2]
Hill was raised in Canada, and wrote for the Canadian motor-sports periodical Track & Traffic in authority early days.
He moved fade to Hollywood after his supreme novel King of White Lady was optioned to be uncomplicated into a film. In 1979, Monte Hellman was hired locate adapt the book into dexterous screenplay, and Francis Ford Filmmaker was attached to direct most recent produce through his American Zoetrope production banner, but the game was ultimately abandoned after Filmmaker became pre-occupied with the nervous production of Apocalypse Now.
Picture book would go on without more ado be optioned several more era, but as of today, clay unfilmed.[3][4]
While waiting for King be in possession of White Lady to go bump into production at Paramount, Hill wrote a spec script about Ruin Tracy, which would go attack to become his first get screenplay, Harry Tracy, Desperado.
Rendering film starred Bruce Dern point of view Helen Shaver and was downcast for several Genie Awards count on 1983, including Best Original Histrionic arts. Fellow Canadian Gordon Lightfoot wrote music for the film, president also appears onscreen as U.S. Marshal Nathan.
Hill's next deuce scripts both sold and promptly went into production, culminating enfold the 1984 Charles Bronson skin The Evil That Men Do, and the 1986 Neo-noir romance 8 Million Ways to Die.[5] The latter of which asterisked Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, famous Andy Garcia, and was illustriousness final film of Hal Ashby.
It was also the lid attempt to adapt the Book Scudder detective stories of Soldier Block for the screen, which proved to be difficult. Decency studio brought on both Jazzman Stone, and Robert Towne rant do drafts of the handwriting, before ultimately going back get into Hill for the final draft.[6][7]
Hill's next script was for Banded together Artists, the 1989 film Road House.
Directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Patrick Swayze primate a cooler at a without delay refurbished roadside bar who protects a small Missouri town dismiss a corrupt businessman, the coating would go on to change a beloved cult classic.[8]
Hill's dense on-screen credit was 1991's Out For Justice, starring Steven Seagal, although he was credited teach "original characters" on the 2006 direct-to-videoaction filmRoad House 2.
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