Akiva Goldsman on Lobo, Jonah Hex and the new Swamp Thing
Goldsman
Goldsman, who had enjoyed a steady ascension in Hollywood for years, was coming off a string of films that had badly battered his reputation. He had produced and written the forgettable dud “Lost in Space” — and far worse, he had written the screenplay that would become the 1997 bomb “Batman & Robin,” one of the most savagely disliked movies of the decade.
Lobo Given that history of burnt popcorn, Goldsman seemed like the least qualified writer in Hollywood to take on the task of adapting Sylvia Nasar’s “A Beautiful Mind” for the screen, but that’s the job he sought when he visited Grazer at the offices of Imagine Films. Shockingly, he got the gig, and the eventual film, about physicist John Nash and his slippery hold on reality, would win four Academy Awards, including best adapted screenplay for Goldsman, best director for Ron Howard and best picture.
“It was a profound experience for all of us involved,” Goldsman recently recalled. “And I cannot overestimate what it meant for my career at that point.”
The breakthrough put Goldsman in a lofty strata in Hollywood, and his screenwriting credits would include blockbusters such as “The Da Vinci Code,” “Angels & Demons,” “I Am Legend” and “I, Robot.” And now, a decade after seeking a bit of largesse from Grazer, Goldsman is undertaking a new career path behind the camera.
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