Brendan Burns

Historia

Producer/Screenwriter/Actor has worked extensively in film, television and the theater, opposite such luminaries as Robert DeNiro, Tommy Lee Jones, Marisa Tomei, Kathleen Quinlan and Stephen Hopkins to name a few. Paramount Pictures optioned Burns original screenplay, "VTV" with William Sackheim producing and Burns receiving the rewriting assignment. Burns developed "The Atomic Veteran", a MOW based on the original play for Jaffe/Braunstein Films. Mr. Burns' original screenplay, "Devil Jocks" was optioned by James Keach and Emerald Eyes Productions with Burns executive producing. His story and treatment "Hidden Valor" - "Women of the SOE", was first optioned by the producing team of Sanford/Pillsbury. As a stage producer, Brendan, through special arrangement with Joseph Papp, moved the Lincoln Center Production of Michael Dorn Moody's Obie Award-winning play, "The Shortchanged Review" to the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles for its West Coast premiere. The production received wide acclaim from LA critics and went on to win eleven awards ranging from production design, performance, to two Best Production awards for Burns. Brendan was company manager and later co-producer of Arthur Miller's, "After the Fall" by special arrangement with Mr. Miller himself. Victor French and Julie Cobb headed the cast with Harris Yulin directing. The production received a host of honors including the LA Drama Critics Circle Best Actress award for Ms. Cobb and a nomination for Best Production of the Year. Brendan produced and directed the premiere of "Time Will Tell", written by Bart Burns & Timothy C. Burns at the Company of Angels Theatre. The show opened to rave reviews and garnered numerous awards. scottburnsproductions

Películas

Monkeybone
Monkeybone
Detective #1
La vida no le podía ir mejor al dibujante de cómics Stu Miley: ha creado una tira cómica de grán éxito protagonizada por Monkeybone, un mono deslenguado y tunante con una inclinación casi enfermiza por las puyas inteligentes y las payasadas subidas de tono. Pero la noche en que Stu va a pedir a su novia Julie que se case con él, cae fulminado víctima de un inesperado accidente.
Volar por los aires
Volar por los aires
Kevin
Boston sufre una conmoción por una explosión de tal ferocidad que deja sin aliento incluso a los miembros más duros de la brigada antiexplosivos de la ciudad. Todas las pruebas apuntan al terrorista más temible y más hábil al que se han enfrentado nunca, un enigma para todos... excepto para el jefe de la unidad, Jimmy Dove. Enfrentado a un adversario mortal, que Dove consideraba parte de un pasado ya enterrado, inicia una persecución tan personal como desesperada.
Fear
Fear
Merle Johnson
A family living in an isolated cabin in the woods are terrorized by a gang of escaped convicts. Their leader, a serial killer, is a disturbed Vietnam veteran. What the gang doesn't know is that the family's father is also a Vietnam veteran, and he has no intention of letting his family come to any harm.
St. Helens
St. Helens
David Crockett
Centers on the events leading up to the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, with the story beginning on the day volcanic activity started on March 20, 1980, and ending on the day of the eruption, May 18, 1980.
El largo regreso a casa
El largo regreso a casa
Driver
Muchos años después de haber sido abandonado por sus padres, Donald sale en busca de sus hermanos. Su mayor desafío es pasar a través de las capas de la burocracia. Se pasa a un consejero que le ofrece ayuda para localizar a su hermano y a su hermana desaparecidos.
Maeve
Maeve
Soldier
Maeve returns home to Belfast after a long absence. Her arrival in the city stimulates a series of memories of childhood and adolescence both in herself and other people.
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
Cujo
The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.
El último magnate
El último magnate
Assistant Editor
Adaptación cinematográfica de la última e inacabada novela de Francis Scott Fitzgerald. La acción se desarrolla en la época dorada de los estudios de Hollywood, durante los años treinta. Trata sobre la desmedida ambición y falta de escrúpulos de quienes están dispuestos a utilizar todos los medios a su alcance para conquistar la gloria: aspirantes a actores, escritores y productores cinematográficos.
Angels Hard as They Come
Angels Hard as They Come
Tim
A group of crazy bikers meet up with a group of drug-addicted hippies in a small town, but the two roving factions are soon at odds with one another and chaos ensues.