David Scarpa

David Scarpa is an American screenwriter.[1][2][3] He is best known for writing the screenplays to The Last Castle, the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and All the Money in the World, about the John Paul Getty III kidnapping, which was released in December 2017.

David Scarpa
Scarpa in 2017
Born
Fort Campbell, Kentucky, United States
NationalityAmerican
EducationNew York University
OccupationScreenwriter

He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Early life

He was born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and raised in Tennessee and Connecticut before attending New York University's film program.

Career

Scarpa began writing features. In 2005, he began developing a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Scarpa felt everything about the original film was still relevant, but changed the allegory from nuclear war to environmental damage because "the specifics of [how] we now have the capability to destroy ourselves have changed."[4] Scarpa noted the recent events of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 informed his mindset when writing the screenplay.[5] He scrapped Klaatu's speech at the conclusion of the story because "audiences today are [un]willing to tolerate that. People don't want to be preached to about the environment. We tried to avoid having our alien looking out over the garbage in the lake and crying a silent tear [from the 1970s Keep America Beautiful ads]."[6] He served as the co-showrunner for Prime Video series The Man in the High Castle season 4.

References
  1. Variety
  2. Deadline.com
  3. Los Angeles Times
  4. "Production notes". 20th Century Fox. Retrieved October 8, 2014.
  5. Matt Mueller (December 2008). "Excellent adventure, or bogus journey?". Total Film. pp. 68–72.
  6. Scott Brown (November 25, 2008). "The Looming Deluge of Eco-Disaster Flicks". Wired. Retrieved November 25, 2008.
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