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The Professor and the Madman is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Farhad Safinia (under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran), from a screenplay by Safinia and Todd Komarnicki based on the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in the United States as The Professor and the Madman) by Simon Winchester.
Farhad Safinia ( Persian: فرهاد صفینیا Farhād Safīnīyā; born 1975) is an Iranian-American screenwriter, film/TV producer and director, best known for Apocalypto, Boss, and The Professor and the Madman. He was credited under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran in the latter.
May 25, 2019 · Farhad Safinia (as P.B. Shemran) makes his feature debut with the troubled 'The Professor and the Madman' featuring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn.
Farhad Safinia. Writer: Apocalypto. Farhad Safinia was born in 1975 in Tehran, Iran. He is a writer and producer, known for Apocalypto (2006), The Professor and the Madman (2019) and Boss (2011). He has been married to Laura Regan since 2007.
- January 1, 1
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- Tehran, Iran
Feb 20, 2020 · Based on Simon Winchester’s 1998 best-seller, the story features Gibson as Scottish lexicographer James Murray, the man responsible for taking on the most ambitious project ever attempted in the literary world, and Safinia (using the name P. B. Shemran) as director and co-writer.
Feb 20, 2020 · Farhad Safinia (working under the Alan Smithee pseudonym PB Sherman), was the man eventually tasked with bringing the page to screen, a frequent Gibson cohort who co-wrote Apocalypto and at the time, probably seemed like a natural fit to help dramatise the collation of the Oxford English Dictionary.
May 10, 2019 · With the film now credited to director and co-writer P.B. Shemran, this is not even a fun fiasco, mixing some kinetic handheld camerawork and a handsome mid-2000s Oscar-ready period piece sheen with a plot direction that dulls its initial ambitions.
