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About Killer Instinct. Fresh out of film school, aspiring producer Jane Hamsher and her partner Don Murphy stumbled onto a screenplay by a geeky filmmaker-wannabe named Quentin Tarantino. For $10,000, Jane and Don optioned Natural Born Killers and set off on a two-year roller coaster ride no classroom could have prepared them for.
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Jan 1, 1997 · Jane Hamsher was a film school grad, looking to make it as a producer. Her partner, the equally inexperienced Don Murphy, stumbled across a hyperactive, unknown film nerd named Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino sells them a screenplay he has written called 'Natural Born Killers'; a year later, Tarantino has written and directed 'Reservoir Dogs', and has become the toast of indy cinema.
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Sep 10, 1997 · Sept. 10, 1997 12 AM PT. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES. The group was somewhere outside Taos when the drugs began to take hold, Jane Hamsher recalls in “Killer Instinct,” her controversial new memoir ...
Jun 1, 1998 · With this book, Jane Hamsher elevates the Hollywood tell-all to a literary art form."--Jerry Stahl, author, Permanent Midnight "Fax and copy machines are working overtime in Hollywood with galleys of Killer Instinct. . . . Gossipy . . . [and] filled with wicked wit. . . .
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Fresh out of film school, aspiring producer Jane Hamsher and her partner Don Murphy stumbled onto a screenplay by a geeky filmmaker-wannabe named Quentin Tarantino. For $10,000, Jane and Don optioned Natural Born Killers and set off on a two-year roller coaster ride no classroom could have prepared them for.
Jane Hamsher (born Jane Murphy; July 25, 1959) is a US film producer, author, and blogger best known as the author of Killer Instinct, a memoir about co-producing the 1994 movie Natural Born Killers with Don Murphy (no relation) and others, [9] and as the founder and publisher of the politically progressive blog FireDogLake (2004 – 2015). [10]
Jun 17, 2023 · Jane and Don stumbled upon a script for a film written by a geeky filmmaker-wannabe named Quentin Tarantino; it was called Natural Born Killers, and they liked it so much they optioned it for the bargain price of $10,000.
