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Action-Film Loving Author T.J. Newman Craves More Female-Driven Fare: “I Know There Are Other Girls Out There Like Me” – Guest Column
Action-Film Loving Author T.J. Newman Craves More Female-Driven Fare: 'I Know There Are Other Girls Out There Like Me'
Ripley in Alien, Sarah Connor in Terminator, Trinity in The Matrix, The Bride in Kill Bill, Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max, Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, Lara Croft in Tomb Raider. And the answer was a high-concept action thriller, which became Falling, the story of an airline pilot who is given a Sophie’s choice by a terrorist: crash the plane he is flying filled with 144 passengers or his family will be killed. Yes, there are women who have broken through and make these kinds of movies and TV series—producers such as Hurd, Sherry Lansing ( Black Rain, School Ties, the first women to head a major studio), Debra Hill ( Halloween, Escape From New York), and Kathleen Kennedy ( Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park); directors Kathryn Bigelow ( Point Break, The Hurt Locker), Patty Jenkins ( Wonder Woman), Gina Prince-Bythewood ( The Woman King and The Old Guard), Cathy Yan ( Birds of Prey), Michelle MacLaren ( Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad), Lesli Linka Glatter ( The Walking Dead, Justified) and Chai Vasarhelyi ( Free Solo, Nyad), Chloé Zhao(Eternals); screenwriters Amanda Silver ( Avatar sequels, Planet of the Apes), Laeta Kalogridis ( Terminator Genisys), Geneva Robertson-Dworet ( Captain Marvel, Tomb Raider), Kelly Marcel (the Venom movies), and Christina Hodson ( Bumblebee, Birds of Prey) to name only a few.
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