JOHN HUDDLES
Writer-Director
• APPETITE, his dramedy on veganism set in London, for producers Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile), Julie Richardson (Collateral), and Alexandra Hoesdorff-Rosen (Timeshare).
• THE PHILOSOPHERS (aka Untitled Apocalypse Story), his thriller for producers Ted Field (The Last Samurai, Jumanji), George Zakk (xXx, The Pacifier, the upcoming Casino Jack), and Radar Pictures / 1821 Pictures.
• BOON ON THE MOON, his kids’ sci-fi adventure film, for executive producer Marc Rocco (Murder In The First, Where the Day Takes You).
• THE FOURTH OPTION, his romantic thriller set in Thailand, for producer J. Todd Harris (Bottle Shock, Jeepers Creepers).
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From 2001 to 2008 John devoted the lion's-share of his time to his family's business interests in Europe and Asia. He has since then returned full-time and permanently to the film business.
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John’s most recent picture as writer-director was AT SACHEM FARM (aka Higher Love), starring Oscar nominees Minnie Driver (Goodwill Hunting), the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne (The Madness of King George), and Rufus Sewell (The Illusionist; A Knight’s Tale). At Sachem Farm premiered as a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Before that, John wrote and directed FAR HARBOR, starring Academy Award winners Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) and Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock), and Oscar nominee Dan Futterman (Capote). Far Harbor premiered at the GenArt Film Festival and then on the Sundance Channel.
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Projects that John has developed since AT SACHEM FARM include:
For Tribeca Productions:
* The Truffle Hunter (action-romance, original material)
* Variations on a Game (based on the short story by Patricia Highsmith, writer of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train).
For HBO and Producers Frank Darabont, Julie Richardson, and Alexandra Hoesdorff-Rosen:
* Democracy (the tragicomic, true story of the U.S.-backed coup in Guatemala of 1954).
For Aaron Spelling’s Big Ticket Television:
* Food & Family (sitcom)
For Davis Entertainment Filmworks and Producer J. Todd Harris:
* The Beauty Loop, a comedy about the next sexual revolution. (Attached cast included: Zooey Deschanel, Minnie Driver, Jamie King, Vincent Kartheiser, Gabriel Mann, Eric Lively.)
For IPW and Producer J. Todd Harris:
* The Double Helix (adaptation of James Watson’s classic account of his discovery of the nature of DNA, for which he won the Nobel Prize).
For Imaginarium Entertainment:
* Eleanor’s Story (adaptation of the award-winning young adult’s book by Eleanor Ramrath: the true story of an American girl stranded in Hitler’s Germany through WWII).
For Andrew Lauren Productions:
* Untitled Mormon Historical Epic
* Untitled Japanese Western
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For his first job in film, as writer of an unproduced drama on the life of Václav Havel, the dissident playwright turned president of the Czech Republic, John was handpicked by George Stevens, Jr. (founder of the American Film Institute, executive producer of The Thin Red Line, producer of The Kennedy Center Honors, and winner of ten Emmys).
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John is a graduate of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, as well as Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C., where he earned a master’s degree in foreign affairs and international economics. He completed his undergraduate degree in history at Brown University, where he was editor-in-chief of the school’s student magazine and was named Brown’s first ever Undergraduate Writing Fellow. John was schooled here and abroad, in such diverse spots as Egypt, the former Soviet Union, and France.