David M. Evans
Virtually unknown screenwriter of low-budget films ("Open House" and "Terminal Entry" both 1987) whose screenplay for "Radio Flyer," a drama about child abuse, created a bidding war among Hollywood studios before Michael Douglas' Stonebridge Entertainment and Columbia Pictures purchased the hot property in 1989 for an estimated $1.1 million. As part of the sale, Evans was to make his debut directing the film as well, but early in production was replaced by veteran action/adventure director Richard Donner and his producer-wife Lauren Shuler-Donner who replaced the initial cast and after test screenings added a more upbeat ending, resulting in what was dubbed an innately noncommercial "expensive flop" and the "first feel-good movie about child abuse." Evans was executive producer of the film. He made his belated directorial debut with "The Sandlot" (1993), a nostalgic tale of childhood and baseball.
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David M. Evans
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Intensive Care | Director | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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Smitty | Director | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Ace Ventura Jr.: Pet Detective |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2009 |
26% |
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The Final Season | Director | $1.2M | 2007 |
40% |
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The Sandlot 2 |
Director, Writer |
- | 2005 |
42% |
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The Three Musketeers | Writer | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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National Lampoon's Barely Legal | Director | $26.3K | 2003 |
No Score Yet |
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Wilder Days | Director | - | 2003 |
0% |
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Beethoven's 4th | Director | - | 2001 |
0% |
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Beethoven's 3rd | Director | - | 2000 |
6% |
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Ed | Writer | $4.0M | 1996 |
20% |
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First Kid | Director | $26.5M | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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Journey to the Center of the Earth | Screenwriter | - | 1993 |
65% |
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The Sandlot |
Director, Writer |
$31.7M | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Open House | Screenwriter | - | 1987 |