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Shane Black

Highest Rated: 91% The Nice Guys (2016)

Lowest Rated: 0% Any Day (2015)

Birthday: Dec 16, 1961

Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

On his way to becoming one of the highest-paid screenwriters in motion picture history, Shane Black redefined the action movie by flipping its stale conventions upon its head while producing untold numbers of pale imitators. Black shot to the top of the class with his first script, "Lethal Weapon" (1987), which resuscitated the buddy cop genre on its way to becoming one of the biggest hits of the year. It also spawned three sequels over the next decade, but Black only had his hand in writing the original draft for "Lethal Weapon 2" (1989). Meanwhile, he landed a huge payday for his spec for "The Last Boy Scout" (1991) and became one of Hollywood's top-earning rewrite specialists, raking in a cool million per job. But nothing compared to the $4 million score he managed for "The Long Kiss Goodnight" (1996), especially in light of the action flick's subsequent failure at the box office. After taking nearly a decade off to throw some of Hollywood's most notorious parties, Black reemerged as the writer and director of "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" (2005), a hilarious and highly-entertaining action-comedy that unfortunately flopped at the box office, but nonetheless put him on sure footing for a solid comeback.

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Highest-Rated Movies

91% 79% The Nice Guys Watchlist
86% 87% Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
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80% 87% Predator Watchlist
80% 86% Lethal Weapon
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79% 78% Iron Man 3
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67% 70% The Long Kiss Goodnight
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60% 61% Lethal Weapon 3
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56% 77% The Monster Squad
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52% 64% Lethal Weapon 4
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46% 68% The Last Boy Scout
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
In Search of the Last Action Heroes 83% 2019 Self The Predator 34% 32% 2018 Director, Screenwriter Swing State 26% 2016 Luke Actor The Nice Guys 91% 79% 2016 Director, Screenwriter Any Day 0% 25% 2015 Gino Actor Iron Man 3 79% 78% 2013 Director, Screenwriter Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter 77% 2013 Disembodied Voice Voice Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 86% 87% 2005 Director, Writer, Producer Lethal Weapon 4 52% 64% 1998 Writer An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn 8% 15% 1997 Self The Long Kiss Goodnight 67% 70% 1996 Writer, Producer Last Action Hero 42% 48% 1993 Screenwriter Lethal Weapon 3 60% 61% 1992 Writer The Last Boy Scout 46% 68% 1991 Screenwriter Predator 80% 87% 1987 Hawkins Actor Lethal Weapon 80% 86% 1987 Writer The Monster Squad 56% 77% 1987 Screenwriter
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