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.

Avary stated that, as a first time director, it was a dream to work with actors as talented as Jean-Hugues Anglade, Eric Stoltz and Julie Delpy.

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.

In an interview included on the DVD, Avary explains how he wanted to make a movie about how nihilistic he felt his generation was, and said that watching Stoltz in the film was like seeing his evil twin come into creation.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The film was also an influence on Tarantino ; according to Avary, Tarantino, while rewriting Pulp Fiction, added the heroin scenes after viewing a rough cut of Killing Zoe.

The film was also celebrated by the Cinémathèque Française, who heralded Avary as " the Antonin Artaud of cinema " during their Cinema of Cruelty retrospective.

In 2005, Avary, at the request of his friend, actor James Van Der Beek, played the part of a peyote-taking gonzo film director Franklin Brauner in the film " Standing Still.

In 2002, he played Sean Bateman ( younger brother of American Psycho protagonist Patrick Bateman ) in the film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis ' The Rules of Attraction, written and directed by Roger Avary.

Killing Zoe is a 1994 film, written and directed by Roger Avary.

Avary later attended Grapevine High School where he formed his own dodgeball team named The Bombardment Society, inspired by Wes Anderson's film Rushmore.

Glitterati is a 2004 film directed by Roger Avary assembled from the 70 hours of video footage shot for the European sequence of The Rules of Attraction.

In regard to expanding upon those events, the film acts as a connecting bridge between The Rules of Attraction and the upcoming film adaptation set to be directed by Avary.

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.

Invitations were also open to film directors Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary.

Most celebrity sites are created and maintained by marketing and web professionals employed by the celebrity or the celebrity's publicist ; however, some celebrities, such as film director Roger Avary, actor Wil Wheaton, and video game developer John Romero, maintain their own official sites without professional help, although many of them still use third-party templates and blogging software.

Beowulf is a 2007 American motion capture fantasy film written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary inspired by the Old English epic poem of the same name.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Roger Avary became a spokesperson for Apple's Final Cut Pro product, appearing in Apple print and web ads worldwide.

Roger Avary, the film's director became the spokesperson for Final Cut Pro, appearing in print advertisements worldwide.

Shortly after Hello, Good Friend was released, Avary left The Militia Group for a major record label deal.

Avary finished the record in March 2009 but had to wait for behind-the-scenes industry issues to clear.

Avary was recently approached by several platinum-selling artists who have asked him to write singles for their upcoming albums.

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

" Avary approves the designs for his products, and as of February 2010, has also teamed up with designers from Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters to create apparel for the clothing line.

Avary attended and performed acoustic at the Dallas Rescue for the Invisible Children campaign in Dallas, TX, on April 25, 2009.

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.

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.

Prior to launching his music career as The Rocket Summer, Avary worked as a Starbucks barista for four months — an experience that inspired him to write the song " This is Me " off of his album Calendar Days.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

" Avary co-wrote the background radio dialogue in Reservoir Dogs ( 1992 ), and designed the " Dog Eat Dog " logo which appeared in the end credits.

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.