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Jonathan Lemkin is an American screenwriter. He has written for the television series 21 Jump Street , Beverly Hills, 90210 , and Hill Street Blues . He has also written the films Showdown in Little Tokyo (uncredited, production script), Lethal Weapon 4 , Red Planet , and adapted The Devil's Advocate and Shooter from novels.
Jonathan Lemkin est un scénariste américain, occasionnellement réalisateur. Il a été l'époux de l'actrice Kiersten Warren de 1990 à 2005, avant son mariage avec Kirk Acevedo, et est le père de l'actrice Misti Traya .
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Kevin Lomax is a Gainesville, Florida defense attorney who has never lost a case. While defending schoolteacher Lloyd Gettys against a charge of child molestation, he realizes his client is guilty. Nonetheless, Kevin proceeds with his defense, destroying the victim's credibility through a harsh cross-examination, and securing a "not guilty" verdict...
The Devil character's name is a direct homage to John Milton, who wrote Paradise Lost, quoted by Lomax with the line "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n". Despite this, the thrust of Milton's epic was to rebuke the devil. As a rebel against God, complaining of being perpetually "underestimated", the Milton character, like Paradise Lost's...
Development
Andrew Neiderman wrote The Devil's Advocate as a novel, and it was published in 1990 by Simon and Schuster. Believing his story could be adapted into a film, Neiderman approached Warner Bros.and claimed to have led his successful sale with the synopsis "It's about a law firm in New York that represents only guilty people, and never loses". Various screenplay adaptations of The Devil's Advocate had been pitched to U.S. cinema studios, with Joel Schumacher planned to direct it with Brad Pitt as...
Casting
Al Pacino had previously been offered the Devil role in attempts at adapting Neiderman's novel, but before final rewrites, rejected it on three occasions, for the clichéd nature of the character. Pacino suggested Robert Redford and Sean Connery for the role. Keanu Reeves chose to star in Devil's Advocate over Speed 2, despite a promised $11 million for the sequel to his 1994 hit Speed; according to Reeves' staff, the actor was averse to performing in two consecutive action films after Chain R...
Filming
Principal photography began in New York in 1996, but struggled by November. Delays were caused by the dismissals of the original cinematographer and assistant directors, while an anonymous source claimed Pacino found Hackford to be conceited and loud. An executive alleged Pacino was typically late to work, though producer Arnold Kopelson said this was not the case.Hackford later said Pacino was professional, even though his status meant he did not need to be. Production designer Bruno Rubeo w...
During early stages of photography, Warner aspired to a release in August 1997. The film eventually had its release on October 17, 1997, on the same day as another horror film, I Know What You Did Last Summer. To promote the release, Warner's website included the warning on hell's gate from Dante's Inferno Canto III ("Abandon every hope, ye who ent...
Box office
On its opening weekend in October 1997, The Devil's Advocate earned $12.2 million, finishing second in the U.S. box office to I Know What You Did Last Summer, which made $16.1 million. The Devil's Advocate was largely competing against thriller films aimed at youth in the Halloween season. By December 6, 1997, it grossed $56.1 million.It ended its run on February 12, 1998, with a gross of $61 million in North America and $92 million elsewhere.
Critical response
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes assigned the film an approval rating of 64% based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The site's critics consensus states: "Though it is ultimately somewhat undone by its own lofty ambitions, The Devil's Advocate is a mostly effective blend of supernatural thrills and character exploration." Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 60 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by...
Accolades
The film won the Saturn Award for Best Horror Film. Pacino was also nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.
Lawsuit
The film was the subject of legal action in Hart v. Warner Bros., Inc. in 1997. The claim was that the sculpture featuring human forms in John Milton's apartment closely resembled the Ex nihilo sculpture by Frederick Hart on the facade of the Episcopal National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and that a scene involving the sculpture infringed Hart's rights under copyright law in the United States. Hart and the National Cathedral jointly initiated the action, with an argument similar to archite...
Adaptations
In 2014, Andrew Neiderman wrote a prequel novel, Judgment Day, about John Milton arriving in New York City and obtaining control of a major law firm. Neiderman brought the book to Warner Bros. for a television series adaptation. John Wells and Arnold Kopelson unsuccessfully attempted to adapt Devil's Advocate into a series in 2014. Produced by Warner Bros. Television, Wells and Kopelson took the project to NBC for a television pilotwritten by Matt Venne. A musical play based on The Devil's Ad...
Bibliography
1. Brown, Eric C. (2006). "Popularizing Pandaemonium: Milton and the Horror Film". In L. Knoppers; G. Colón Semenza; Gregory M. Colón Semenza (eds.). Milton in Popular Culture. Springer. ISBN 1-40398318-6. 2. De La Torre, Miguel A.; Hernández, Albert (2011). The Quest for the Historical Satan. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. ISBN 978-1-45141481-3. 3. Fry, Carrol Lee (2008). Cinema of the Occult: New Age, Satanism, Wicca, and Spiritualism in Film. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press. ISBN 978-0-93...
Screenwriter and script doctor Jonathan Lemkin, who had just done some uncredited work for them on Demolition Man (1993), was hired to write the script for Lethal Weapon 4 while another writer worked on the script for Lethal Weapon 5. According to Silver, the plan was to shoot both films back-to-back, with the possibility of using ...
Jonathan Lemkin was born on 25 April 1961 in the USA. He is a writer, known for The Devil's Advocate (1997), Shooter (2007) and Red Planet (2000). He was previously married to Kiersten Warren.
Jonathan Lemkin est un Scénariste américain. Découvrez sa biographie, le détail de ses 28 ans de carrière et toute son actualité.
