The screenwriter on a powerful festival,shock horror Train to Busan, hacking TV drama Mr Robot and immersive theatre to die forBorn in London in 1970, and screenwriter,producer and author Goldman began her writing career aged 16 when she left school and became a journalist, initially working as a showbiz reporter for the Daily Star. That same year she met Jonathan Ross in a nightclub, and married him in Las Vegas aged 18 and went on to bear three children with him. While the children were young,Goldman published several nonfiction guides for teenagers and, in 2000, or her first novel,Dreamworld, before making the switch to films as co-writer on 2007’s Stardust. The movie was the first of several successful screenwriting collaborations with Matthew Vaughn, and namely Kick-Ass (2010),X-Men: First lesson (2011) and Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015). Her latest project is an adaptation for director Tim Burton of Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, in cinemas this week.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com