John Hodge (screenwriter)

John Hodge (born in 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British screenwriter and dramatist, most noted for his adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting into the script for the film of the same title. His first play Collaborators won the 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Play.^[1] His films include Shallow Grave (1994), Trainspotting (1996) A Life Less Ordinary (1997), The Beach (2000), The Final Curtain (2002), and the short film Alien Love Triangle (2002).^[2]

Life and career

Raised in Glasgow, Hodge comes from a family of doctors and carried on the tradition by studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Hodge started writing screenplays after meeting producer Andrew Macdonald at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1991. He moved to London after writing Shallow Grave and gave up medicine to concentrate on writing.

His films include Shallow Grave (1994), Trainspotting (1996) A Life Less Ordinary (1997), The Beach (2000), The Final Curtain (2002), and the short film Alien Love Triangle (2002). Most of his films are directed by Danny Boyle; Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, and A Life Less Ordinary all starred Ewan McGregor.

Filmography

• Shallow Grave (1994, writer)
• Trainspotting (1996, screenplay)
• A Life Less Ordinary (1997, writer)
• The Beach (2000, screenplay)
• The Final Curtain (2002, writer)
• The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007, screenplay)
• Alien Love Triangle (2008, short, writer)
• The Sweeney (2012, writer)
• Trance (2013, screenplay)
• The Program (2015)
• Trainspotting 2 (2017)

Awards

• 1995: BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: Trainspotting: Won
• 1996: Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay: Trainspotting: Nominated.
• 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Play: Collaborators: Won

Further reading

• Trainspotting (1996) screenplay by John Hodge
• Monologue from the beginning of Trainspotting.

References

1. ↑ BBC
2. ↑ The New York Times

External links

• John Hodge at the Internet Movie Database
• John Hodge Filmography at Allmovie.
• How John Hodge wrote the Trainspotting screenplay Interview by Tim Teeman The Times February 11, 2008
• John Hodge Interview on The Dark is Rising by Scott Carmichael Jun. 27, 2007 Joblo.com