William Monahan

Marlowe lives again.

William Monahan’s screenplay for The Departed is partially responsible for helping Martin Scorsese finally earn that long-deserved Oscar, though his work since then has been a bit of a mixed bag. Monahan’s latest sees him pulling double duty as writer and director for Mojave, starring Oscar Isaac as a deranged loner who stalks Garrett Hedlund through Los Angeles. Maybe he had nothing better to do?

While Sony continues struggling to get their Evel Knievel movie off the ground, Paramount is developing their own biopic about the life of the famed daredevil with The Departed scribe William Monahan on board to write the screenplay. And with Monahan scripting the project, the studio is reportedly hoping to get Martin Scorsese to re-team with the writer for the film, which is based on a book that caused a little bit of a fuss.