W.D. Richter
出生 : 1945-12-07, New Britain, Connecticut, USA
略歴
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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.
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An interview with writer W.D. Richter
Writer
海軍が極秘に進めているテロ対策プロジェクトにベン・ギャノン大尉、カーラ・ウェイド大尉、ヘンリー・パーセル大尉の3人がパイロットとして選抜された。さらにそのチームに新たな仲間が加わるが、その仲間とは最新鋭の人工頭脳を搭載した無人ステルス戦闘機だった。
Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Dracula" (1979).
Himself
A documentary found on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Special Edition DVD.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
Director
日本人の父とアメリカ人の母を持つバカルー・バンザイは、天才的な脳神経外科医で物理学者、そしてロックバンドのボーカルでもあるスーパースター。ある時、実験で偶然“8次元”の世界に迷い込んだバカルーは、未知の生命体と接触してしまう。そのことがきっかけとなり、凶暴な異星人が地球を侵略しようとしていることが発覚。残された時間はわずか24時間。バカルーは科学者やバンド仲間とともに、敵の本拠地へ向かう。
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.
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.
Story
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Screenplay
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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.
Screenplay
公衆衛生調査官マシューはある日、同僚のエリザベスから奇妙な相談を受ける。彼女の恋人ジェフリーが以前の彼とは別人のようになったという。その翌日、エリザベスがマシューの家に駆け込んで来て、ジェフリーは見知らぬ人たちと密会しており、彼らは人間らしい感情が無いように思われたという。マシューはエリザベスを知り合いの精神科医のキブナー博士のところへ連れて行くがそれは単なる幻覚にすぎないと断定される。数日後、マシューの親友ジャックの家で不思議な物体が発見される。
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.
Screenplay
A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune.
Writer
A well-meaning but stupid ex-convict is drawn into a get-rich scheme that could result in his imprisonment.
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.
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.
Characters
A truck driver and his new friend, Jack Burton, unite on a new adventure.