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- Movies made from Michael France's screenplays have earned well over one billion dollars in worldwide theatrical admissions, and at least another billion dollars in home video revenues. Michael France was born in 1962. He graduated from the University of Florida and attended Columbia University's School Of The Arts.
His breakthrough screenplay was his 1991 spec sale for Cliffhanger to Carolco Pictures - the movie was shot within the year and became a worldwide hit in 1993 for Sylvester Stallone and Renny Harlin. France then went on to revive the then-dormant James Bond franchise with his script for GoldenEye, which again yielded a worldwide hit in 1995 - and France's association with the James Bond franchise continued with uncredited work in The World Is Not Enough, which was released in 1999.
France's string of Marvel adaptations began with Hulk (2003) for Universal Pictures, continued with The Punisher (2004) for Lions Gate, and went further with the blockbuster release of Fantastic Four (2005) for Twentieth Century Fox.
He lived in Florida with his wife Elizabeth, son Thomas, and twin daughters Annabelle and Carolynn. He died in April 2013 aged 51.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseElizabeth(? - April 12, 2013) (his death, 3 children)
- Produced a James Bond fan magazine as a youngster in the early 1970s.
- France's favorite Punisher comic writer is Chuck Dixon. France told Comicbook Resources, "Chuck's comics had the best crime story tone of them all - they were larger than life, they had huge stylized action, but they still felt realistic. I had to use a hilarious bit of his from one of the comics - the scene where Frank threatens to blowtorch some information out of a crook is straight out of an old 'War Journal.'".
- When preparing to write "GoldenEye", he toured Russian airbases, a mob casino named "Casino Royale", and KGB facilities around Red Square.
- Though uncredited on "The World Is Not Enough", he wrote the first versions of key sequences, including the buzzsaw helicopter attack and the battle in the nuclear disarmament plant at Kazakhstan.
- On the Hulk movie, he was hired twice. The first time he was replaced before he began when the studio decided to hire Jonathan Hensleigh to write and to make his directorial debut. When Hensleigh's version collapsed, France was hired to bring the movie back on track. (Ironically, Hensleigh later made his directorial debut with another France screenplay based on a Marvel character, "The Punisher".)
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