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William J. Monahan
William Monahan, at The Departed's Boston Premiere, Loews Boston Common, on October 3, 2006.
Occupation	Screenwriter Novelist Journalist Essayist Critic
Nationality	American
Notable works	Novel Light House: A Trifle (2000) Film Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Departed (2006)

William Monahan (Template:PronEng) (born November 3, 1960) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, novelist, and former journalist. Before his screen-writing career he worked as a short story writer, essayist and critic for publications in and around New York city, among them the New York Press, The New York Post, Talk, and Bookforum. He won a 1997 Pushcart Prize for one of his short stories. His 2000 novel Light House: A Trifle, earned critical praise and led to Monahan's move into film after Warner Brothers bought the film rights and commissioned Monahan to adapt it for the screen.

His first produced screenplay, Kingdom of Heaven, was made into a film by Ridley Scott and released to theaters in 2005. His second produced screenplay was The Departed, a film that earned him a WGA award and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

In 2006, he started his own company, Henceforth, and negotiated a "first-look" producing deal with Warner Bros. Monahan resides in the United States with his wife and two children.

Early years

Monahan was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and spent his early years in the neighborhood of Roslindale, eventually moving to the suburbs of Boston at age six when his parents divorced. Over the years he moved frequently, living in many of the suburban communities on the North Shore of Massachusetts with his mother and sister. His father lived in the neighborhood of West Roxbury, working as an engineer. Monahan regularly visited, and often read from his father's extensive book collection—he particularly enjoyed Shakespeare's plays. He has described his upbringing as one in which he had "two households, two families, two homes": his father's family was "deeply Irish, deeply Catholic" and his mother's family was "Anglo-Saxon with an admixture of stuffy Scot". He recalls developing a keen interest in movies at age seven, when it occurred to him that a screenwriter was behind the story in Lawrence of Arabia. He wrote his first screenplay at age twelve.

Monahan spent a year moving boxes at a liquor store before he began attending classes at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. While there, he studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. He says he choose the university mainly for its esteemed scholars like Normand Berlin. While there, he began publishing fiction in local zines and small presses. His earliest known published piece, a short story titled "At the Village Hall", appeared in 1991 in the Northampton's Perkins Press. Two years later, his first novel Light House was published serially in the Amherst literary magazine Old Crow Review over five installments; it was eventually released as a book by Riverhead Books under the title Light House: A Trifle.

When Kurt Vonnegut spoke at UMass-Amherst Monahan attended the event as a writer for Old Crow Review and asked a few questions of Vonnegut; he later published an account of Vonnegut's visit in the New York Press.. On another occasion, he entered into a short-lived business to make books with a woman he met after crashing his motorcycle in front of her car. They decided to print 100 paperback copies of a novella he had written. Before any copies were sold, Monahan reconsidered the undertaking and bought out his partner, burning "all the copies but one".

In the late 1980s Monahan played guitar in the Slags, a band that performed in and around Northampton. In the early 1990s he wrote songs and played with a band called Foam.

Writer

In 1993, Monahan began contributing essays and short fiction to the alternative weekly New York Press, where editorial control was unusually permissive compared with most papers. He wrote a cover story titled "Ceci n'est pas une bombe", in which he theorized that the Unabomber was communicating through a hidden code involving Old English. In another essay, Monahan wrote that Press writers weren't reporters in the traditional sense. "We're all sort of essayists, actually." Former New York Press colleague Dawn Eden recalled him "as charming, libertarian-leaning, with a razor-sharp wit that he used in print to anger as many people as possible" and Newsday's Jon Fine called him "an excellent and scabrous writer".

Throughout the summer season of 1995, Monahan wrote a weekly column for the seasonal Hamptons a publication that covers The Hamptons summer colony. He was named an editor of the magazine for the summer of 1996 but he quit after 3 issues, writing that the environment there was "ridiculously unworkable."

In the mid-1990s, Monahan resided in New York City, earning a living doing freelance work for the New York Press, and gradually for several other publications: he reviewed books for The New York Post and once wrote for men's magazine Maxim. Before long, he won recognition for his short fiction. He was awarded a 1997 Pushcart Prize for his short story, "A Relation of Various Accidents Observable in Some Animals Included in Vacuo", following a nomination by Old Crow Review; and, in the following year's Pushcart volume, his Perkins Press short story "At the Village Hall", another nomination by Old Crow Review, garnered a special mention.

In 1997, Monahan was hired to work as an editor at Spy magazine, a satirical monthly, by the editor-in-chief Bruno Maddox. He later reminisced, in an interview with The Boston Globe, that he "had God's own job there". In 1998, Spy magazine was shutdown; he had worked on the last four issues as a rewrite man and editor.

Light House: A Trifle

In 1998, Monahan sold his first novel Light House: A Trifle to Riverhead Books, a Penguin Group imprint. He shortly became a working screenwriter when Warner Bros. optioned the film rights to his novel—still in manuscript—and contracted him to write the adaptation. He continued to occasionally contribute to the New York Press and even wrote an essay, on the depiction of Gloucester, Massachusetts in the movies, for Talk magazine's debut issue in August 1999. It wasn't until 2000 that Light House: A Trifle was finally published: it garnered critical acclaim but had lackluster sales. William Georgiades, in a review for The New York Times, called the novel "a sort of old English farce that allows Monahan to skewer whatever comes to mind: modern art, magazine writing, education, the young"; while BookPage Fiction's Bruce Tierney declared Monahan "a worthy successor to Kingsley Amis". However, Claire Dederer, in an editorial review for Amazon.com, cautioned that " is not a novel for the culturally illiterate", and criticized the occasional inside-jokes that " most sensible people very tired". The work intentionally references the satirical novels of the early 19th century British author Thomas Love Peacock and tells the story of an artist named Tim Picasso who runs afoul of a drug lord, seeking refuge at a New England inn in the middle of a nor'easter.

In late 2001, Monahan wrote a comic serial narrative for the New York Press titled Dining Late with Claude La Badarian, published over thirteen weeks under the pseudonym Claude La Badarian, a fictional restaurant critic. These short stories made satirical reference to his first novel and literary career. At the conclusion of the serial, Monahan and Bruno Maddox went on a joint book tour that was interrupted by the 9/11 attacks. Shortly afterward he sold his spec script Tripoli to 20th Century Fox, and was commissioned to write Kingdom of Heaven by Ridley Scott.

Screenwriting career

"I wanted to be an old-fashioned man of letters, so I essentially prepared myself very carefully through my 20s for a job that doesn't exist anymore; you may be able to find a man of letters in Syria or the Horn of Africa, but you could work Manhattan or London with dogs for a year and never find one. Anthony Burgess is dead, Vidal is the last lion, and at any rate belles-lettres aren't where they were left. Anyway, I'm making movies now. Just before all this happened, I thought, 'Out of everything you can do or think you can do, pick one thing and be it.' What I picked was to be the screenwriter."

Monahan's first film commission came from Warner Bros. in 1998 for an adaptation of his then unpublished novel Light House: A Trifle, with Gore Verbinski slated to direct. The sale of the film rights led Penguin Putnam, Monahan's publisher, to delay release of the book, hoping to benefit from film publicity. However, the film was never made. Monahan continued editing for Details magazine and reviewing books for Bookforum, but had committed to film writing. When Light House: A Trifle was finally released in 2000, Monahan had divested himself of any immediate interest in being a novelist. Monahan eventually bought back the rights to this novel from the Penguin Group and later lamented that it was "an empty, damaging gesture". Light House was available in a German edition translated by Ulrike Seeberger.

Tripoli

In 1990, Monahan wrote a script titled Tripoli, about William Eaton's epic march on Tripoli during the Barbary Wars, registering it with the WGA with the alternate title of "Captain Eaton", and later set out the opening of Tripoli in prose form under the title of "Romantic" in 1997, published in Old Crow Review. While working at Spy magazine, Monahan routinely spent two weeks working in Manhattan followed by two weeks writing his own material in Massachusetts; during this period he took the Tripoli script out of a drawer and placed it with an agent. In 2001, shortly after he got married, Tripoli sold to 20th Century Fox, in a deal worth mid-six figures in American dollars with Mark Gordon attached as the producer. The historical epic follows Eaton's campaign against Yusuf Bashaw to restore Yusuf's brother, the exiled heir Hamet Karamanli, to the throne of the Barbary Coast nation of Tripoli, and features a French mercenary named Joubert. Ridley Scott signed to direct. Monahan met with Scott to discuss Tripoli and Scott mentioned his desire to direct a film about knights. Monahan suggested the fall of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem as a setting, and Ridley Scott and Fox commissioned Monahan to write the original screenplay that became Kingdom of Heaven.

Negotiating deals and production rewriting

Before the start of production on Kingdom of Heaven in January 2004, Monahan was hired to write several scripts for big-budget films, beginning with Jurassic Park IV which he was hired to write for Universal Pictures as reported in 2002. Columbia Pictures then hired him to write a script based on a manuscript by journalist Doug Stanton, later published as The Horse Soldiers: A True Story of Modern War, which recounted the bloody uprising in the Afghan city Mazari Sharif following the American incursion against the Taliban. Subsequently, Brad Pitt's production company Plan B hired him to adapt the Hong Kong action film Infernal Affairs, which Martin Scorsese directed under the title The Departed for Warner Bros.; the film won Monahan two Best Adapted Screenplay awards, from the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. John Sayles was later hired to write a subsequent draft for Jurassic Park IV when Monahan became indisposed: he had entered into a production write-through contract for Kingdom of Heaven, requiring him to be on location to potentially modify its shooting script.

Kingdom of Heaven released to theaters

"The crucial skill of a working screenwriter is that you have to have some depth of ability and ideation. Your ninth idea has to be as good or better than your first, and that's where a lot of people crack up. You have to remain on top of your game and in absolute control of the text and a successful advocate of your own intentions no matter what influences hit the picture or from which direction. You do that by having the best ideas in the room. If you don't, you will be replaced. It's nothing personal."

After production on Kingdom of Heaven completed, Monahan was hired to collaborate once again with director Ridley Scott on an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's ultra-violent Western novel Blood Meridian for producer Scott Rudin.

The months leading up to Kingdom of Heaven's theatrical release were troubled when author James Reston Jr. claimed that Monahan's Kingdom of Heaven script violated the copyright of his 2001 novel Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade. Reston claimed that a producer had previously offered Ridley Scott the book for a movie deal but was turned down. He alleged that the entire second half of Monahan's shooting script was based on the first 105 pages of his book, and noted that "Kingdom of Heaven" is the title of the second chapter. 20th Century Fox denied all of Reston's claims and Monahan said: "There was no infringement, period. I've been familiar with the fall of the Latin Kingdom for thirty-odd years." Reston did not pursue the matter.

In the meantime, it was reported that Monahan had secured work on two Warner Bros. projects. He was hired to adapt Louis Begley's novel Wartime Lies for Warner Independent Pictures, previously in development as a Stanley Kubrick project called Aryan Papers. A second script was to be based on Marco Polo's autobiography Travels, as a star vehicle for actor Matt Damon, titled The Venetian, and set during Polo's Far East explorations.

Kingdom of Heaven was released theatrically in May 2005. Peter Canavese of Groucho Reviews described Kingdom as a "confusing compromise at best and a dull obfuscation of history at worst" and Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid wrote that Kingdom "has at its center a bold story, and yet it sits there like a stone pillar". Ridley Scott later remarked that he got carried away with cutting the film in the editing room and learned that "the enemy is previews" because these test screenings are tantamount to asking an inexperienced group of people to be film critics. Kingdom was reappraised by critics when it was released on DVD in the form of a director's cut, containing an additional 45 minutes of footage previously shot from Monahan's shooting script. Critics were pleased with the extended version of the film and James Berardinelli of ReelViews remarked how "now that the director's cut is available, there's no reason for anyone to watch the neutered theatrical edition".

Best Adapted Screenplay Awards for The Departed

While Monahan was on the set of The Departed his wife gave birth to a daughter. He was already a step-father to his wife's son. Monahan managed to get two days off to spend with them. In the run-up to The Departed's theatrical release, Monahan was hired by Warner Bros. to adapt David Ignatius' novel Body of Lies into a film of the same title, about a CIA operative who goes to Jordan to track a high-ranking terrorist, with Ridley Scott directing. He also started his own company on the Warner Bros. lot called Henceforth and negotiated a first-look producing deal that gave the studio the first right of first refusal on any films produced by Henceforth. In return Monahan and producer Quentin Curtis received from Warner Bros. the film rights to produce John Pearson's true crime novel The Gamblers; reportedly Monahan will write the adaptation.

When Martin Scorsese's The Departed was released to theaters in October 2006, Monahan received considerable praise from critics and was applauded for his depiction of the city of Boston. Monahan had chosen not to watch Infernal Affairs so that he could create an original interpretation of the Hong Kong action film, and instead worked from an English translation of the Chinese script. He used his intimate knowledge of the way Bostonians talk and act, learned from his youth spent in the many neighborhoods of Boston, to create characters that The Boston Globe described as distinctly indigenous to the city.

The Departed won many critics' prizes. The Los Angeles Times reported that Monahan had hired a publicist to run a campaign promoting his screenplay during the awards season, although he had in fact hired the publicity firm to manage relations with the studio involved, and had respectfully refused most publicity offers during the awards season, including an appearance on The Charlie Rose Show; he rarely does in-person interviews. He was honored by the US-Ireland Alliance for his writing in film and ended up winning two Best Adapted Screenplay awards for The Departed, from the Writers Guild of America and from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was later invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As of 2007, he is working on a film treatment for a follow-up to The Departed, which may be either a prequel or a sequel.

Taking on producing roles with intent to direct

After winning the 2006 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Departed in January 2007, it was announced that Monahan had been hired to work on two film projects: an adaptation of the Hong Kong film Confession of Pain and an original Rock and Roll film titled The Long Play. Monahan signed to both executive produce and write the adaptation of Confession of Pain for Warner Bros. Pictures, later given the title Nothing in the World; it would be his second adaptation of a Media Asia Films production created by directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak and screenwriter Felix Chong. Monahan's other commission was to rewrite a script about the history of the rock music business titled The Long Play, whose first drafts were written by Rolling Stone writer Rich Cohen who was commissioned in 1999 by Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese, while subsequent drafts were written by Matthew Weiss.

In 2007, the movie rights to Robert Graves' novel I, Claudius, expired and consequently were brought back into the marketplace on behalf of the author's estate. Monahan was briefly linked in the press with a new film project involving the book, but the project eventually passed to another writer.

In the weeks following the end of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, it was reported that Monahan had been hired by Warner Bros. to adapt the South Korean action film The Chaser. He shortly thereafter entered into a first look deal with GK films, the production company of Graham King, a producer on The Departed, who had hired Monahan in 2007 to write a feature film adaptation of the six-hour 1985 BBC mini-series Edge of Darkness. As part of this deal, Monahan was enlisted to write a script about drug dealer Jim Keene, based on Hillel Levin's Playboy article, "The Strange Redemption of James Keene". Monahan was also reported to have acquired, in conjunction with producer Quentin Curtis, the rights to Ken Bruen's novel London Boulevard, which pays homage to Sunset Boulevard. Monahan has written the screenplay and will direct the film.

Writing process

Monahan prefers that screenplays be written by one author and does not support the collaborative model in which multiple screenwriters write competing drafts. His interest in motion pictures began at an early age, but he admittedly steered clear of the film industry because he mistakenly surmised that the collaborative model was a de facto practice for creating screenplays. However, in his mid 30s, he went to Hollywood to adapt his first novel into a film and later discovered that if you produce exceptional work, you can "stick to your own model of work, instead of caving in to industry expectations", however, he acknowledged that the writer does need to have the backing of a powerful film director who will protect his vision. Since then, he has generally been the sole writer on his screenplays, except for Jurassic Park IV, which was taken over by John Sayles and rewritten when Monahan had to go on location for Kingdom of Heaven.

Monahan has quipped that, having studied English drama for over 30 years, he is "post-conscious about craft". When doing historical fiction he reads the available primary sources and will not look at a contemporary book. He is critical of the instruction given by people running screenwriting courses, and has said that "classes and books on screenwriting do far more harm than good, because writing drama is intuitional and case-by-case". He has stated a couple of times that he believes there are no general rules to writing, and, in a Collider.com interview, he further elaborated that he has come to realize that "ach work has its own inherent rules. You discover them. You don’t import them."

In his experience he has found that "when you’re writing a character, you are that character", musing that "It’s probably no joke that Shakespeare was an actor."

Monahan has said that he would prefer to work on an old Olivetti Praxis typewriter in many instances because there are too many distractions on a modern computer.

Articles, scripts and novels

List of works by William Monahan

References and notes

1. ^ Sam Allis (2006-10-03). "Standing at the corner of Shakespeare and Scorsese". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2007-01-01. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
2. ^ William Monahan interviews David Thewlis (2007-10-15). "Fiction (With a Twist of Lennon)". BlackBook magazine. Retrieved 2007-10-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
3. ^ John Koch (2007). "Profane Eloquence: Through the words of William Monahan, Boston swagger meets Hong Kong crime drama". Written By. The Writers Guild of America, West. Retrieved 2007-03-07. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
4. ^ Susan Wloszczyna (2007-02-15). "William Monahan: His 'Departed' left Hong Kong for the USA". USA Today. Retrieved 2007-02-25. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
5. "Pronunciation of William Monahan". inogolo.com. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
6. ^ William Monahan. "Holiday Gift Guide: Merry Crucifix", New York Press, vol. 9, no. 48 (November 27–December 3, 1996).
7. William Monahan (1995). "The Irish question". Old Crow Review (6). FkB Press: 5 pages. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
8. ^ Dylan Callaghan (2006-10-13). "A Man of Letters". Writers Guild of America, West. Retrieved 2007-01-01. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
9. William Georgiades (2004-11-17). "Adventures in Journalism: Petty Games". Mediabistro.com. Retrieved 2008-07-15. It was the free weekly newspaper that was independent and angry enough to say whatever it wanted, and the paper that had made minor stars (cloudy satellites, really) of two writers I'd first published back in Massachusetts.
10. William Monahan. "And Slow It Goes: Portrait of Kurt Vonnegut as Hot Fudge Sundae", New York Press, vol. 7, no. 23 (June 8-14, 1994)
11. William Monahan. "Holiday Gift Guide: The Seven Pillars of Christmas", New York Press, vol. 7, no. 48 (November 30-December 6, 1994).
12. William Georgiades (1991). "Contributors Notes". Perkins Press. 2 (4)."William Monohan 'writes fiction and plays guitar for the Slags.'
13. Brian Berger (2007-12-12). "Jim Knipfel: A Swell Looking Babe". WhoWalkInBrooklyn.com. Retrieved 2008-08-15. … it was inspiring to see such a diverse, weird group of writers successfully published.
14. Alston Chase (2003). Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 43–44. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
15. William Monahan. "Manhattan Samurai: Swords and Sensibilities", New York Press, vol. 8, no. 48 (November 29–December 5, 1995).
16. Dawn Eden (2005-05-07). "Crusades-Film Writer's Personal Jihad". The Dawn Patrol. Retrieved 2007-03-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
17. Jon Fine (2007-02-26). "Oscar-Winner William Monahan's (Poorly Documented) Past Life". BusinessWeek. Retrieved 2007-03-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
18. William Monahan. "The Burning Deck: My Brilliant Career at Hamptons", New York Press, vol. 9, no. 29 (July 17-23, 1996).
19. William Georgiades (2007-02-25). "Required Reading". The New York Post. Retrieved 2007-03-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
20. Tony Silber (1999-04-15). "Felix Dennis — owner of Dennis Publishing forwards Maxim magazine". Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management reprinted by FindArticles.com. Retrieved 2007-11-10. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
21. ^ William Monahan (1996). "A Relation of Various Accidents Observable in Some Animals Included in Vacuo". In Bill Henderson (ed.). The Pushcart Prize XXI: Best of the Small Presses (1997). Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1888889000. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
22. Bill Henderson, ed. (1997). "Special Mention". The Pushcart Prize XXII: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press. p. 609. ISBN 978-1888889017. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
23. ^ Juan Morales (2005-05-04). "His success story? An epic: 'Kingdom of Heaven' is William Monahan's first produced script, but Ridley Scott, for one, expects more". Los Angeles Times through LexisNexis Academic. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |publisher= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
24. ^ "William Monahan – Exclusive Interview". Collider.com. 2007-02-18. Retrieved 2007-02-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
25. William Monahan. "So Seedy! Smell that fish bait! Gloucester's a perfect town for pictures", Talk magazine, September 1999, Premiere issue, p. 82.
26. Russ Smith (1999-08-11). "MUGGER: I'm in Bermuda and Rick Lazio Isn't". New York Press. Retrieved 2007-03-08. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
27. ^ "Van Morrison, Terry George and Bill Monahan honored in LA" (Press release). US-Ireland Alliance. 2007-02-26. Retrieved 2007-03-05. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
28. William Georgiades (2000-07-23). "An Offshore Farce". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-03-10. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
29. Bruce Tierney (2000). "Review: Light House". BookPage Fiction. Retrieved 2007-03-15.
30. Claire Dederer. "Amazon.com Editorial Review of Light House". Retrieved 2007-10-01.
31. William Monahan (2001-06-21). "The Last Supper: Being eventually a PROPOSAL for a column called DINING LATE WITH CLAUDE LA BADARIAN, By Claude La Badarian". New York Press. Retrieved 2007-03-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
32. ^ Garth Franklin (2005-05-04). "Interview: Ridley Scott "'Kingdom of Heaven'"". Dark Horizons. Retrieved 2007-01-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
33. ^ Chris Petrikin, Dan Cox (1999-01-12). "'Mars' loses Verbinski: Studio, director cannot agree". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-07. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
34. "Light House: Roman. Aus d. Amerikan. v. Ulrike Seeberger von William Monahan". Buch.de. Retrieved 2007-04-27.
35. William Monahan (1997). "Romantic". Old Crow Review (8). FkB Press: 16 pages. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
36. Cathy Dunkley, Jonathan Bing (2001-11-27). "Monahan 'Tripoli' spec lands on Gordon's shore". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
37. Stax (2003-08-07). "The Stax Report: Script Review of Tripoli". IGN. Retrieved 2007-06-30. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
38. Dana Harris (2002-11-06). "Lizards leap again for U: 'Tripoli' scribe returning to 'Park' pen". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
39. Claude Brodesser (2003-03-16). "Monahan eyes war script for Col: Busy writer has two tales for Scott, a 'Jurassic' sequel". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
40. Claude Brodesser, Cathy Dunkley (2004-02-12). "Scorsese takes on Hong Kong gangs: Pitt considering role in popular 'Infernal' redo". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
41. Dade Hayes (2006-12-14). "Brad Pitt's role as filmmaker threatens to eclipse his actorly exploits and tabloid profile". Variety. Retrieved 2007-03-03. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
42. Sasha Stone (2007-02-16). "William Monahan Talks The Departed". OscarWatch.com. Retrieved 2007-02-26. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
43. Paul Davidson (2004-09-17). "Rewriting Jurassic Park IV: Silver City scribe tackles new dinosaur tale". IGN. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
44. ^ Michael Fleming (2005-05-02). "Warner Bros. plays 'Polo': Historical epic to feature Damon as explorer". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
45. Liza Foreman (2004-05-10). "The Vine: Monahan eyed for 'Blood' work". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
46. William Triplett, Claude Brodesser (2005-03-28). "Inside Move: Scribe on crusade over 'Heaven' script: Reston fires on Fox over 'Kingdom'". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
47. Sharon Waxman (2005-03-29). "Historical Epic Is Focus of Copyright Dispute". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
48. ^ Bob Thompson (2005-05-01). "Hollywood on Crusade: With His Historical Epic, Ridley Scott Hurtles Into Vexing, Volatile Territory". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-01-08. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
49. Claude Brodesser (2005-05-10). "WIP a 'Wartime' recruit: Warner catches WWII 'Lies'". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
50. ^ Michael Fleming (2006-10-05). "'Departed' scribe digs WB: Studio inks overall deal with Monahan". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
51. Peter Canavese. "Kingdom of Heaven (2005) Review". Groucho Reviews. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
52. Jeffrey M. Anderson. "Kingdom of Heaven (2005) Review". Combustible Celluloid. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
53. Edward Douglas (2006-11-03). "Ridley Scott's French Invasion". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved 2007-03-18. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
54. James Berardinelli (2006). "Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut: A Film Review". ReelViews.net. Retrieved 2007-03-04.
55. "William Monahan's 2007 Oscar Acceptance Speech". OSCAR.com. 2007-02-25. Archived from the original on 2007-03-02. Retrieved 2007-03-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
56. Michael Fleming (2006-03-13). "Warner sets spy team: Scott to helm Monahan-adapted 'Penetration'". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
57. Beth Accomando (2006-10-06). "Movie Review: The Departed". KPBS.Org. Retrieved 2007-03-10. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
58. David S. Cohen, Justin Chang (2007-02-25). "Oscar winners weigh in on victory: Backstage notes at the Academy Awards". Variety. Retrieved 2007-03-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
59. Sam Allis (2006-12-31). "The Storyteller". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2007-01-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
60. Wesley Morris (2006-12-11). "'The Departed' tops Boston film critics' awards". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
61. "'Departed' tops Chicago critics' list". Chicago Sun-Times. 2006-12-29. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
62. "Oscar 2006: Southeastern Film Critics Select The Departed". Hollywood News. 2006-12-19. Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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External links

• William Monahan at IMDb
• Short video of William Monahan on the red carpet for Body of Lies.

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