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Eric Roth is an American screenwriter, who has been nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the films Forrest Gump (1994), The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), A Star Is Born (2018), and more recently with Dune: Part One in 2021.[1] He eventually won for Forrest Gump and also earned a Best Picture nomination for producing Mank (2020). Roth also worked on the screenplays for the Oscar-nominated films such as Ali (2001) and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), as well as Martin Scorsese's epic Western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).[2]
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In April 2017, it was announced that Roth was hired to co-write the screenplay in April 2017 for the Dune films[3], and Jon Spaihts was later confirmed to be co-writing the script alongside Roth and Denis Villeneuve.[4] By February 2021, Roth created a full treatment for the sequel,[5] with writing beginning that August.[6]
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- ↑ Writer’s Guild to Honor ‘Extremely’ Talented Screenwriter Eric Roth - Jewish Journal
- ↑ Interview: Benjamin Button Writer Eric Roth - Games Radar
- ↑ ‘Forrest Gump’ Writer Eric Roth to Pen Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ Reboot - Variety
- ↑ Rebecca Ferguson in Talks to Star in Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ - Hollywood Reporter
- ↑ ‘Dune’ Co-Writer Eric Roth Says the Sci-Fi Adaptation Is “Spectacular," Talks Sequel - Collider
- ↑ Denis Villeneuve Is Currently Writing 'Dune 2' - Collider