Avary co-wrote the song " Stomping The Roses " for American Idol alum, David Archuleta.

So too were Roger Avary, the writer / director of The Rules of Attraction, Chuck Kelley co-founder of the internet radio station LuxuriaMusic, and producer Daniel Snyder, who is best known for the documentary Dreams on Spec.

Since Tarantino was busy prepping Reservoir Dogs, Avary was hired with Tarantino's consent by Tony Scott and Hadida to work as a script doctor on the material, a job which included bringing the length down, reforming the narrative to a linear fashion, and writing a more commercial ending where the Clarence character is not killed.

Tarantino and Avary got together in Amsterdam shortly after the release of Reservoir Dogs, and pasted each other's scenes together into a first draft, after which Avary left to film Killing Zoe, leaving Tarantino to continue subsequent writing of Pulp Fiction.

But when producer Lawrence Bender called Avary during location scouting on Reservoir Dogs asking if he had a screenplay that took place entirely in a bank so that they could take advantage of an inexpensive location they had no use for, Avary told Bender that he had such a script — and quickly wrote Killing Zoe in under a week, using elements of his European trip as inspiration.

In August 2007, Todd Hollenshead stated at QuakeCon 2007 that a Return to Castle Wolfenstein movie is in development which re-teams the Silent Hill writer / producer team, Roger Avary as writer and director and Samuel Hadida as producer.

Roger Avary was originally attached to direct after the success of Pulp Fiction, collaborating with Pirates of the Caribbean screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio in 1996 on a revision of their first script draft, which merged the " Preludes and Nocturnes " storyline with that of " The Doll's House ".

Most notably, Avary contributed material which, combined with Tarantino's, formed the basis of Pulp Fiction ( 1994 ) for which he and Tarantino won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

" Pandemonium Reigns " ended up forming the basis of the " Gold Watch " chapter of Pulp Fiction ( an earlier version of his website displayed an excerpt from " Pandemonium Reigns ", illustrating the changes that were made by Tarantino when writing " The Gold Watch "), and other odd scenes Avary had written during his rewrite of True Romance were reworked and incorporated into the Pulp Fiction script, such as the accidental shooting of Marvin, and the scene in which the bullets fired at Jules and Vincent miss their targets.

Avary also wrote and directed the neo-noir cult thriller Killing Zoe ( 1994 ) which Tarantino executive produced.

Avary had initially intended to write a screenplay completely devoted to this experience, for which Tarantino suggested the ironic title Roger Takes a Trip.

In 2002, Avary directed his adaptation of the novel, which he also executive produced.

In September 2010, Avary confirmed that The Rocket Summer would be joining the annual Australian music festival Soundwave in 2011 which tours the country's capital cities.

On June 23, 2009, Avary played at the closing ceremony for the Invisible Children rally, " How It Ends ," which took place on the White House Ellipse Lawn in Washington D. C.

Hamann and Tarantino starred in the film, along with several video store and acting class buddies, and worked on the crew, which included fellow Video Archives employees Rand Vossler and Roger Avary.

As a child, Avary appeared as a contestant on Nickelodeon's Double Dare after he and his family successfully auditioned for the TV show while on a family vacation at Universal Studios in Orlando, FL.

As an employee of the Video Archives, a now-defunct video rental store in Manhattan Beach, he and fellow movie enthusiasts, including Roger Avary, discussed cinema and customer video recommendations at length.

The movie will be written and directed by Roger Avary and Samuel Hadida is the producer.

Roger Avary was arrested in January 2008 for DUI and manslaughter after his friend died in a car accident while Avary was at the wheel.

An unusual and revolutionary use of split screen as an extension to the cinematic vocabulary was invented by film director Roger Avary in The Rules of Attraction ( 2002 ) where two separate halves of a split screen are folded together into one seamless shot through the use of motion control photography.

There is also a second commentary with fellow filmmaker and self-proclaimed Romero fan, Roger Avary.

Avary intended the film to be in part visually inspired by animator Jan Švankmajer's work.

Avary was fired after disagreements over the creative direction with executive producer Jon Peters, best known for Batman and Superman Lives.

It was due to their meeting on the Sandman movie project that Avary and Gaiman collaborated one year later on the script for Beowulf.

Among those first ranchers were John Avary, J. J. Draper, and the Cowden brothers — Doc, Tom, and Walter.

Roger Avary ( born August 23, 1965 ) is a Canadian film and television producer, screenwriter and director in the American mass media industry.

When in 1981, Video Out-Takes co-owner Lance Lawson ( a name that comes up repeatedly in Avary and Tarantino's films ) left to open the now famous Video Archives Avary went along, writing the store's database program with fellow 6502 programmer Andy Blinn on an Atari 800 computer.

Among this group, Avary met an odd and brilliant film enthusiast, Quentin Tarantino.

Early in his career, Avary made a number of contributions to some of Quentin Tarantino's movies.

Avary took on the producer's role, and he and Tarantino tried unsuccessfully for several years to get funding so that Tarantino could direct the script himself.

When the Paul Brothers, a pair of wealthy bodybuilders who wanted to get into the movies, offered Tarantino funding for his script Natural Born Killers on the condition he include a scene featuring them, he could not write it out of disgust, and asked Avary to write it as a favor.

Earlier in their careers, Tarantino and Avary had planned on making an anthology movie comprising three short films ; one written and directed by Avary, one written and directed by Tarantino, and one written and directed by a third filmmaker, reportedly Adam Rifkin.

With the series character designs finalized and the story set, Yoko Kanno was selected to write the songs for the series, including the background songs which she co-wrote with Hajime Mizoguchi.

The background singers on the track were Sharon Greane, Linda November, Jay Siegel, and Toni Wine, who co-wrote the song.

Perry also provided background vocals for " A Brand New Start ," among the many songs he and Pack co-wrote shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

* Micki Duran-vocals, background vocals ( co-wrote At Night I Pray )

He also co-wrote one of Slade's Top 10 hits " Look Wot You Dun " with Holder and Lea in 1972, and made the breathing noises in the background of the song.

He also co-wrote and sang background vocals on Lila McCann's late 1998 single " You're Gone ".

Tamar co-wrote several songs and sang background vocals for several of Toni's albums including Snowflakes, More Than a Woman, Libra, and Pulse.

Among other songs, Secada co-wrote and sang background on " Coming Out of the Dark " Gloria's number one hit from her 1991 album Into the Light.

This album featured her own rendition of the song she co-wrote, " Love is a Battlefield ," as well as the single " Heart Don't Fail Me Now ," which featured background vocals from Daryl Hall.