Walter F. Parkes

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Walter F. Parkes (born April 15, 1951) is an American producer, screenwriter, and media executive. The producer of more than 50 films, including the Men in Black series and Minority Report, he is the co-founder and co-chairman of Dreamscape Immersive. Parkes and his wife and business partner, producer Laurie MacDonald, helped to build DreamWorks, with Parkes the head of its motion picture division, and the two later moved to Amblin Entertainment, where Parkes served as president. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards, receiving his first nomination as the director/ producer of the 1975 documentary The California Reich; his second for co-writing the original screenplay for WarGames; and his third as a producer of Awakenings. Parkes and MacDonald created the Parkes + Macdonald production company (P+M, P+M Image Nation) in 2010, collaborating on the productions of a number of films, including films that Amblin has released. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter F. Parkes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Wealthy Joe Grant has hired four very capable men: Weapons and tactics expert Rico Fardan, the leader, explosives man Bill Dolworth, Jack Sharp, a black bounty hunter and expert tracker and bowman, and horsemaster Hans Ehrengard. His young wife Maria, he tells them, has been kidnapped by Mexican rebel Jesus Raza–their mission is to rescue her from Raza's stronghold. But when Rico and his men get there, they find that Grant hasn't told them the whole story.

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