Menno Meyjes is a Dutch-born screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, film director

Film director

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 and producer

Film producer

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He moved to the United States in 1972 and studied at the Art Institute of California – San Francisco. He was nominated for several awards for his screenplay to the 1985 film The Color Purple

The Color Purple

The Color Purple is an acclaimed 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker. It received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction...

, adapted from the novel by Alice Walker

Alice Walker

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. In 1989 he gained recognition for cowriting Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father, Henry...

with George Lucas

George Lucas

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 and winning a Goya Award for El Sueño del mono loco.

He attended the San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute

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; there he studied with George Kuchar, James Broughton, and Larry Jordan.

Filmography

• The Color Purple
  The Color Purple (film)
  The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director , and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous...
  
  (1985) (screenplay)
• Lionheart
  Lionheart (1987 film)
  Lionheart is a 1987 adventure film directed by Academy Award-winner Franklin J. Schaffner...
  
  (1987) (screenplay, story)
• Empire of the Sun
  Empire of the Sun (film)
  Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American coming of age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, and Nigel Havers...
  
  (1987) (uncredited)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father, Henry...
  
  (1989) (story)
• El Sueño del mono loco (1989) (writer)
• Ricochet
  Ricochet (film)
  Ricochet is a 1991 crime-thriller film, directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak, and Lindsay Wagner...
  
  (1991) (story)
• The Siege
  The Siege
  The Siege is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Edward Zwick. The film is about a fictional situation in which terrorist cells have made several attacks on New York City...
  
  (1998) (screenplay)
• Max
  Max (film)
  Max is a 2002 British/Hungarian/Canadian fictional drama film, that depicts a friendship between a Jewish art dealer, Max Rothman, and a young Austrian painter, Adolf Hitler...
  
  (2002) (writer and director)
• Manolete
  Manolete (film)
  The Passion Within , Blood and Passion , and A Matador’s Mistress , is a 2007 biopic of bullfighter Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez better known as Manolete, was written and directed by Menno Meyjes. This is the first film from HandMade Films since Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels...
  
  (2007) (writer and director)
• Martian Child (2007) (director)

External links

• BBC interview on Max with Menno Meyjes