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Michael Colleary is an American film producer, screenwriter and television writer. His writing credits include Face/Off, Firehouse Dog, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and the Cartoon Network live-action series Unnatural History.
- “Well, Facial Surgery”
- “Nicolas and John Just Went For It”
- “You Could See It Pulsating”
- The Big Finale
- The Premiere
- Face/Off... Again
Michael Colleary, screenwriter: Face/Offwas always a pleasure. Mike Werb, screenwriter: We were aiming to pay off our student loans. It was the decade of the big spec sales. We initially set out to write a piece set in prison. We were very influenced by James Cagney’s last great gangster movie, White Heat, and the sequence that takes place in priso...
Ellen Mirojnick: I fell in love with John Woo’s work when I watched his Hong Kong movies, whereby the bad guy was always, in my opinion, the good guy. Brian Smrz, stunt coordinator: If he hated an idea that you came up with, he would say “Hmm… let’s keep thinking.” And if he loved something, he was like, “That’s pretty good.” Neil Spisak: For a man...
Steve Arnold, art director: We had some really, really good special effects prosthetic people who built those amazing doubles of John and Nicolas. And they were scary because you could see the blood veins, you could see it pulsating, you could see those little hairs. It was so impeccably done that Travolta was kind of freaked out. Steve Kemper: I r...
Neil Spisak: The end [church] sequence was a Parks and Recreation building that was abandoned in San Pedro. So we built that church into a community center kind of room. Steve Arnold: With the music that he would put with it, it has this kind of violent beauty, if you will. Barrie Osborne: The first AD came to me and said, “John wants to have pigeo...
Steve Kemper: I do remember the premiere. It’s that old story — we all looked at each other and said, “OK, we have a hit.” Mike Werb: We were very worried because the Evander Holyfield/Mike Tyson fight took place that same weekend. We opened to $23 or $24 million, which was a lot back then. Titaniconly opened to $25 million. Neil Spisak: I’d like t...
The original team reacts to reports that a sequel is in works from Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett. Steve Arnold: I do think it will be tricky to produce something of similar quality without the vision of someone like John Woo. Even if they are able to bring back the original cast, their ages will make any big action sequences pretty implausible. El...
Sep 10, 2019 · The studio, initially reluctant to see Archer adopt Troy’s son himself – because it was un-American to adopt another man’s child – were forced to admit that they were wrong: a new ending was filmed in which Adam is welcomed into the Archer family, acting as a type of replacement for Mike, the son Troy had accidentally killed in the ...
Jun 27, 2022 · Following the news of its upcoming sequel, ShortList conducted a thorough inside-look into the making of Face/Off and revealed that writers Michael Colleary and Mike Werb’s original draft was...
My produced writing credits include: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Firehouse Dog. Face/Off. Which The New York Times named one of “the greatest 1000 movies ever made” and The Atlantic says, “Might be the best action movie of all time!”.
Mar 25, 2020 · Michael Colleary has been a screenwriter, producer, educator and screenwriting consultant for more than 3 decades. He earned an MFA from the UCLA film school where he won the Jack Nicholson Award and the William Morris Award for screenwriting excellence.
Michael Colleary is a producer & screenwriter of Face/Off, Tomb Raider & Firehouse Dog. He also runs his original 5 X 10 screenwriting bootcamp as a coach.
