Age: 56
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John August (born August 4, 1970) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. He is known for writing the films Go (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Frankenweenie (2012), the Disney live-action adaptation of Aladdin (2019), the novels Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire (2018), Arlo Finch in the Lake of the Moon (2019) and Arlo Finch in the Kingdom of Shadows (2020). He hosts the screenwriting podcast Scriptnotes with Craig Mazin, maintains an eponymous screenwriting blog, and develops screenwriter-targeted software through his company, Quote-Unquote Apps. August is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, voting in the Writers branch. In 2016, he was awarded the WGAw's Valentine Davies Award for his dignified contributions to the entertainment industry and the community at large and has been nominated for a BAFTA and a Grammy. Description above from the Wikipedia article John August, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
John August
Writer
for Writer in SPIRITED AWAY (Live Action Remake)
Suggested by ccarbe6062
Based on the anime film, this live action remake could have an all Japanese cast or have Japanese and American actors, like the "Ghost in the Shell" remake. Chihiro is a sullen 10-year-old girl who is moving to a new house with her parents. Her dad takes a wrong turn and the family encounters an abandoned amusement park. The whole place kinda sort of resembles the Forbidden City. The whole village looks abandoned but the parents smell food that are fresh from the oven. Since they're hungry from the long drive, they stop to eat while Chihiro explores. At sunset a teenage boy named Haku tells her that she has to leave. But it's too late! Her parents have TRANSFORMED INTO PIGS! Haku gives her instructions to get a job at a bathhouse for spirits and monsters, and the guests are not-so-welcoming to humans, especially the head honcho: the witch Yubabba. But since the witch is under oath to give a job to anyone who asks, she gives the job to Chihiro (now named "Sen"). It's all in attempt to see her parents again and set them free. She does manage to get along with some of the locals. But then, a grub-like spirit in a Kabuki mask, simply named "No-Face", stalks Sen and attacks the bathhouse.
