John Milius is one of the famous Director, who was born on the memorable day of April 11 in the year 1944. Hailing from the vibrant city of Missouri, John Milius is a proud citizen of United States.
Film director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for the film Apocalypse Now.
Over the years, not only have skills been honed, but a significant impact has also been made in the professional field. Whether it's through work, public appearances, or contributions to the community, John Milius continues to be an inspiration for many.
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John Milius
First Name:
John
Last Name:
Milius
Gender:
Male
Birthday:
April 11
Birth Year:
1944
Age:
79-years
Education:
USC School of Cinematic Arts; Steamboat Mountain School; University of Southern California
Career
He attended the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. He attempted to join the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, but was rejected due to asthma.
He wrote and directed the 1984 film Red Dawn, as well as co-wrote the first two Dirty Harry films.
Family
He married first wife Renee Fabri on January 7, 1967, second wife Celia Kaye on February 26, 1978, and Elan Oberon in 1992. He co-wrote the 1980s classic Conan the Barbarian with Oliver Stone.
John Milius Timeline
1820
He intended to follow this with Give Your Heart to the Hawks, a story about mountain man Jedediah Smith in the 1820s based a novel by Winfred Blevins "It's my interpretation of Jedediah Smith, which might not be exactly historical", said Milius. "It'll be about exploration, about the need to see what's over the next ridge and what that does, what price you pay, to find out.
1906
Louis, Missouri, the youngest of three children to Elizabeth Marie (née Roe; 1906–2010) and William Styx Milius (1889–1975), who was a shoe manufacturer. He is Jewish.
1923
Milius had founded in 1923, and retired.
1941
Notably, they produced the first three films from Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale: I Wanna Hold Your Hand, 1941 (directed by Steven Spielberg), and Used Cars.
1948
He wrote a script entitled The Texans for Al Ruddy at Paramount, a contemporary version of Red River (1948) (never made, although Sam Peckinpah was going to direct it in 1979)— Milius later said it "wasn't very good".
1950
I've been blacklisted for a large part of my career because of my politics—as surely as any writer was blacklisted back in the 1950s.
1960
Milius says he attempted to join the Marine Corps and volunteer for Vietnam War service in the late 1960s, but was rejected due to a "chronic" and "sometimes disabling" case of mild asthma. "I'd have given anything to be a Marine", said Milius. "As a surfer I'd spent a lot of time hanging out with the Marines off Pendleton, and I'd had every intention of joining up .
1962
During a rainy day on a summer vacation in Hawaii in 1962, he stumbled upon a movie theatre showing a week of Akira Kurosawa films and fell in love with cinema.
1966
John Ford."
His short films at film school included The Reversal of Richard Sun (1966), Glut (1967) and Viking Women Don't Care (1967).
1967
He wrote a documentary, The Emperor (1967), directed by classmate George Lucas, who also edited an animated short Milius directed called Marcello, I'm So Bored (1967) with John Strawbridge.
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1968
Milius's first completed script was Los Gringos (1968). "It actually wasn't bad", he later said.
1969
He followed this with The Last Resort which was optioned by Michael S Laughlin in 1969.
1970
Milius sold the script to Warner Bros. in 1970 for $5,000, going up to $50,000 if it was ever made.
1971
Milius wrote an uncredited draft of Dirty Harry (1971).
1973
He was also the inspiration for the character of Big John in the enormously successful American Graffiti (1973).
1974
He worked on the script for a TV sequel, Melvin Purvis: G-Man (1974), a pilot for a proposed series about Melvin Purvis (there was a second TV movie, but no series), but did not like the director, Dan Curtis, or the experience of working for TV.
1975
Milius next wrote and directed the popular adventure film The Wind and the Lion (1975), which starred Sean Connery and Candice Bergen.
1976
"My religion is surfing", Milius said in 1976, adding that "the other thing that influenced me throughout my youth was my involvement with things Japanese.
1978
Its first production was an autobiographical surfing picture, Big Wednesday (1978), which he called "a surfing How Green Was My Valley".
1979
He was a writer for the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now (1979), and wrote and directed The Wind and the Lion (1975), Conan the Barbarian (1982), and Red Dawn (1984).
1980
In the late 1980s Milius wrote and directed a Pacific War adventure film Farewell to the King (1989).
1982
In 1982, Milius directorial effort Conan the Barbarian was released, based on the fantasy novel by the same name.
1983
In 1983, he was among the producers of Ted Kotcheff's Uncommon Valor, and credited as a "spiritual adviser" in the action film Lone Wolf McQuade.
1984
In 1984, he directed the popular action film, Red Dawn.
1985
He wrote and directed an episode for The New Twilight Zone (1985) and a story of his, "Viking Bikers from Hell", was used in an episode of Miami Vice (season 3, episode 22).
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1986
In 1986, it was reported that he was writing the script for Fatal Beauty which he hoped to direct with Cher; the film was made by Tom Holland and starred Whoopi Goldberg.
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1989
In 1989, he tried to get funding for adaptations of Allan W.
1990
In the early 1990s he wrote Texas Rangers, about the establishment of that organization, for Frank Price at Columbia.
1992
In 1992, Milius claimed that he was blacklisted for his conservative beliefs in liberal Hollywood, saying that his flops were not as forgiven as those from more leftist directors. "It weighs ten times heavier against me", he said. "If you don't share the politically correct vision, then you are an outlaw, you are hunted and there is a price on your head, and if they catch you they will hang you.".
1993
In 1993, he replaced Andrei Konchalovsky as director on The Northmen for Morgan Creek Productions, about an English monk who gets captured by a band of Vikings. "This was inevitable", Milius said of his directing a Viking film. "I've been a practicing pagan for a long time.
1994
The film of Hunt for the Red October had been a big success, however, and Milius remained in high demand as a screenwriter: he did several drafts of another Clancy adaptation, Clear and Present Danger (1994), which was another hit.
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1995
He was going to direct an adaptation of Tom Clancy's novel Without Remorse with Gary Sinise and Laurence Fishburne, but the project folded in 1995, two weeks before shooting was to commence due to the financial collapse of Savoy Pictures.
1997
After his work on Rough Riders (1997), Milius became an instrumental force in lobbying Congress to award President Theodore Roosevelt the Medal of Honor (posthumously), for acts of conspicuous gallantry while in the Battle of San Juan Hill.
1998
Likewise, the character Walter Sobchak in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski (portrayed by John Goodman) was partly inspired by Milius, a friend of The Coen Brothers.
2000
In 2000, Milius was hired to work as a creative consultant with the Institute for Creative Technologies to pre-visualize the challenges to peace that America will face and the advanced virtual reality technologies necessary to train U.
2001
Texas Rangers (2001) was eventually made, though Milius stated that his script was substantially rewritten.
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2003
He also developed Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) (2003), a biker film starring Triple H and wrote a pilot for a TV show for UPN, Delta, about a military special ops team that takes on terrorists.
2005
He later served as the co-creator of the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television series Rome (2005–2007).
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2007
In 2007, Milius was the recipient of the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award.
2009
In 2009, Milius signed a petition in support of Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects.".
2010
In 2010 Milius was working on a new project, a film biography of Genghis Khan, and a proposed TV series called Pharaoh, set during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut, when he had a stroke.
2011
In March 2011, Milius was a story consultant for the video game Homefront, about a North Korean conquest of America.
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2013
In 2013, a documentary about his life, titled Milius, was released.
2020
Amanda is the director of the 2020 documentary The Plot Against the President.
