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Daniel Christopher Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler (2014), for which he won Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards. His other screenwriting credits include Freejack (1992), Two for the Money (2005), The Fall (2006), Real Steel (2011), and The Bourne Legacy (2012)—the last in collaboration with his brother Tony Gilroy. His wife, Rene Russo, has also been his frequent collaborator since the two met in 1992 and married later that year. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Gilroy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Eli Grant was a legend at West Texas Central—until a catastrophic injury ended his career and revealed the pressure-cooker culture of painkillers, silence, and exploitation beneath the glory. A decade later, Eli is a shadow of himself: divorced, broke, and working as a scout, trading in potential like cattle. When he’s called back to the school to keep an eye on CJ Hart, a cocky, gifted freshman QB, Eli sees a chance to matter again. But as CJ rises, Eli watches history repeat: brutal training regimens, hush-hush injuries, coaches protecting wins over players, and boosters pulling strings. He sees himself in CJ—and he sees the crash coming. As Eli wrestles with his own demons, he has to choose whether to play along for his second chance—or blow the whistle and risk ending CJ’s shot, just like his was ended.
