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| Born | (1958-03-01)1 March 1958 (age 67) Lambeth, London, England |
| Occupations | Screenwriter, Playwright, Director |
| Known for | Traffik |
Simon Moore is a British screenwriter and playwright. He is best known as writer for the 1989 six-part BBC miniseries about the international illegal drug trade,Traffik, the basis for the 2000 American crime filmTraffic and the2004 three-part USA network miniseries by the same name.[1][2]
Moore won thePrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie forGulliver's Travels.[3]
In 1984 Moore submitted a pilot script to the BBC, about female ex-convicts struggling to carve out a life for themselves after release from prison. Within a week, he was commissioned to write a six part serial, Inside Out, which was transmitted on BBC2 in early 1985.[4]
Moore wrote and directed the 1991 film noirUnder Suspicion.[5] He wrote the 1995 cult WesternThe Quick and the Dead in late 1992, writing it as ahomage to theSpaghetti Westerns ofSergio Leone, particularly theDollars Trilogy starringClint Eastwood. Moore decided the lead character should be a female, stating that "when you introduce women into that kind of world, something very interesting happens and you have an interesting dynamic straight away." The names of the lead villain (Herod) and the town (Redemption) were intentional allusions to the Bible. Moore considered directing his own script as anindependent film and shootingThe Quick and the Dead on a $3–4 million budget in either Spain or Italy.Sony Pictures Entertainment purchased Moore's script in May 1993.[6]
Moore wrote the teleplay for the 1996miniseries adaptation ofGulliver's Travels, which won five Emmys, including Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries for Moore. He also wrote the fantasy miniseriesThe 10th Kingdom andDinotopia. Moore co-wrote the comedy musicalUp on the Roof, which was adapted into the 1997 UK musical comedy filmUp on the Roof with Moore directing.
As a playwright, he adaptedStephen King's novelMisery for the stage, with the play premiering inLondon'sWest End theatre in 1992 and revived in London in 2005.[7][8]
Moore lives inLos Angeles,California.
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