Michael Tolkin is an American filmmaker and novelist. He has written numerous screenplays, including The Player (), which he adapted from his book by the same name, and for which he received the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay/5. But whether his subject is Hollywood, Christian fundamentalism or the malaise of the married swinger, Tolkin's world is always brutally comic, laced with stinging irony and wild satire. The Player, which was directed by Robert Altman, is the most famous of these three, but the other two films, which Tolkin directed himself, are worth checking out. All of them work at such a high level of wit and erudition that /5(24). A satirical novel by Michael Tolkin, The Player was brought to the screen in by Robert Altman with a screenplay also by Tolkin. The film version starred Tim Robbins, Vincent D'Onofrio, Greta Scacchi, Peter Gallagher and a ton of stars as themselves.
The Player.: Michael Tolkin. Grove Press, - Fiction - pages. 1 Review. "Just as Griffin suspected, there was a meeting in Levison's office without him." With this opening, we are taken into the mind and life of Griffin Mill, senior vice president of production at a major Hollywood studio. A satirical novel by Michael Tolkin, The Player was brought to the screen in by Robert Altman with a screenplay also by Tolkin. The film version starred Tim Robbins, Vincent D'Onofrio, Greta Scacchi, Peter Gallagher and a ton of stars as themselves.. Griffin Mill is a sleazy studio executive whose job it is to decide which screenplays get produced. Michael L. Tolkin (born Octo) is an American filmmaker and novelist. He has written numerous screenplays, including The Player (), which he adapted from his novel of the same name (), and for which he received the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay () and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
But whether his subject is Hollywood, Christian fundamentalism or the malaise of the married swinger, Tolkin's world is always brutally comic, laced with stinging irony and wild satire. The Player, which was directed by Robert Altman, is the most famous of these three, but the other two films, which Tolkin directed himself, are worth checking out. All of them work at such a high level of wit and erudition that the screenplays make just as good reading as the films do viewing. The Player is a American satirical black comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Michael Tolkin, based on his own novel of the same name. The film stars Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Brion James and Cynthia Stevenson, and is the story of a Hollywood film studio executive who kills an aspiring screenwriter he believes is sending him death threats. Michael Tolkin is an American filmmaker and novelist. He has written numerous screenplays, including The Player (), which he adapted from his book by the same name, and for which he received the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. A follow-up book, Return of the Player, was published in
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