Michael Tolkin, Filmmaker/Novelist – The Film Scene

TODAY: Michael Tolkin, American screenwriter, director, and novelist whose career includes self-made adaptations and covers a broad scope of genres. Tolkin's first project was the novel The Player, released in 1988. The story of a Hollywood exec that kills an aspiring screenwriter, it was a success and received a film adaptation in 1992 starring Tim Robbins, which would also write and receive critical acclaim for. The film would be nominated for several Academy Awards and Golden Globes, including a screenwriting nomination for Tolkin. He would go on to write over a dozen more feature films, with his most recent film being the 2009 film adaptation of the stage play Nine, as well as the 2018 Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora. 

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