Stephen Metcalfe is an American film director and screenwriter. Metcalfe's career has touched on all forms of dramatic writing; screen, television and stage.
Metcalfe's first produced screenplay was Jacknife. Based on his Off-Broadway play, Strange Snow, it starred Robert DeNiro, Ed Harris and Cathy Bates and was directed by British stage and screen veteran, David Jones. The adaptation of French director Jean-Charles Tachella's Cousin, cousine soon followed. Produced by Paramount Pictures, Cousins was directed by Joel Schumacher.
In the early 90's Metcalfe wrote the screen play for Pretty Woman. The film starred Julia Roberts and Richard Gere and was directed by Garry Marshall. Numerous rewrites followed. Among them were Arachnophobia, It Could Happen to You, The Air Up There, Mr. Holland's Opus, The Marrying Man; Dangerous Minds, Roommates starring Peter Falk and directed by Peter Yates. Metcalfe has also worked with Sean Connery and Kevin Costner respectively, on the as yet un-produced screenplays, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and American Sportsman.
Metcalfe has adapted both stage plays and novels. His play Emily was done for Scott Rudin and Paramount Pictures; Time Flies, by Paul Link, was adapted for producer Laura Ziskin; A.R. Gurney’s The Old Boy was written for Touchstone Pictures; and Peter Mayle's comic novel Anything Considered was done for producer Stanley R. Jaffe and Sony Pictures.
In 2002 Metcalfe wrote and directed the independent film Beautiful Joe.
Metcalfe's stage plays include Loves & Hours, Vikings, Strange Snow, Sorrows and Sons, Pilgrims, Half a Lifetime, Emily, White Linen, Divirtimenti, The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers, and White man Dancing.
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