When and where was Lawrence Kasdan born?
Lawrence Edward Kasdan was born on the 14th of January 1949 in Miami Beach, Florida. He grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia during the fifties.
Questions about Lawrence Kasdan
Short answers, pulled from the story.
How did Lawrence Kasdan win his first writing awards?
Kasdan won the Hopwood Award four times between 1968 and 1970 at the University of Michigan. He earned a total of two thousand dollars from these victories which changed his life forever.
What happened to Lawrence Kasdan's screenplay The Bodyguard before it became a movie?
The script was optioned by Warner Bros. in 1977 for twenty thousand dollars after being rejected sixty-seven times. It was rewritten many times over the years and attached to different actresses including Diana Ross and Whoopi Goldberg.
Why did Lawrence Kasdan write Return of the Jedi with George Lucas?
George Lucas had supported him on Body Heat as an uncredited producer so when Lucas asked him to write Return of the Jedi Kasdan felt obliged to repay him. They spent the summer of 1981 co-writing the shooting script based on a story by Lucas.
When did Lawrence Kasdan direct his own film Body Heat open?
Body Heat opened on the 28th of August 1981 and made more than twenty-four million dollars domestically on a seven-million-dollar budget. Variety called it an engrossing mightily stylish meller in which sex and crime walk hand in hand down the path to tragedy just like in the old days.