John Hodge

John Hodge was born in the year 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a British dramatist and screenwriter. Some of his works include the translation of the novel Trainspotting into a film script with same the same title. His debut play was the Collaborators, he won the Oliver Award for the best new play in the year 2012. Some of his films include The Final Curtain (2002), A Life Less Ordinary (1997), Shallow Grave (1994), and one short movie Alien Love Triangle (2002).

John studied medical at the University of Edinburgh. His meeting with producer Andrew Macdonald at the Edinburgh film festival encouraged him to write scripts in the year 1991. After he had written the script for Shallow Grave, he moved to London to pursue his career. He got married to Lucy Hodge in the year 1997.

John was working as a junior doctor in the 1990s when he met producer Andrew Macdonald at the Edinburgh film festival 1991. He had written a script for Shallow Grave. He was not sure of taking script writing as a career. Danny Boyle Danny Boyle is a British film producer, director, >> Read More... directed the movie and it was a worldwide hit. After that, he gave another hit movie with Danny Boyle Trainspotting. In the mid-1990s John Hodge, Danny Boyle, and Andrew Macdonald were considered as the emancipator of the British Film Industry.

In the year 1997 he, director Danny Boyle and actor Ewan McGregor they made the romantic comedy movie A Life Less Ordinary. He has also worked with Leonardo DiCaprio He’s one of the most searched icons in the web for >> Read More... in the film, The Beach directed by Danny Boyle in the year 2000. He wrote the script for The Final Curtain directed by Patrick Harkins in the year 2001. In the year 2007, he wrote the fantasy drama script for The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising. Recently in the year 2013, he reteamed with Danny Boyle as a co-writer along with Joe Ahearne for the drama thriller Trance. He won the BAFTA Award for the Best Adapted Screenplay for the movie Trainspotting in the year 1995. He was nominated for the Academy Award for the screenplay of the film Trainspotting in the year 1996. He won the Olivier Award for the best new play in the year 2012. He is currently working on the Stalin biopic.