W.D. Richter

W.D. Richter

Birth : 1945-12-07, New Britain, Connecticut, USA

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   W. D. Richter (born 7 December 1945, New Britain, Connecticut) is a screenwriter and has occasionally directed and produced. He is best known for adapting Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), directing The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, and helping write Big Trouble in Little China. Description above from the Wikipedia articleW. D. Richter,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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W.D. Richter
W.D. Richter

Movies

What Sad Music: W.D. Richter and the Writing of Dracula
An interview with writer W.D. Richter
Stealth
Writer
Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
The Revamping of Dracula
Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Dracula" (1979).
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
Himself
A documentary found on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Special Edition DVD.
Home for the Holidays
Screenplay
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.
Needful Things
Screenplay
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
Late for Dinner
Producer
Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).
Late for Dinner
Director
Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).
Big Trouble in Little China
Adaptation
When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi, to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for immortal sorcerer Lo Pan—who must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Director
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Hard Feelings
Writer
It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run from bullies, he hides in the African-American part of town and meets cute Winona.
All Night Long
Writer
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl tries to seduce George. At home, in front of his mother, Freddie accuses his dad of stealing his girl, because he found Cheryl serving George a meal in the middle of the night, while her husband Bobby was on duty at the fire station. George then separates from his wife Helen, quits his job, moves into a warehouse, and asks Cheryl to move in with him.
Brubaker
Story
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Brubaker
Screenplay
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Dracula
Screenplay
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Screenplay
Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed, as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted 'replacement', realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate.
Nickelodeon
Writer
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.
Peeper
Screenplay
A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune.
Slither
Writer
A well-meaning but stupid ex-convict is drawn into a get-rich scheme that could result in his imprisonment.
Slither
Writer
While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group of unconventional bad guys.
Slither
Associate Producer
While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group of unconventional bad guys.
Big Trouble in Little China
Characters
A truck driver and his new friend, Jack Burton, unite on a new adventure.