Ian Nathan

Ian Nathan is the popular, London-based author of Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth, The Coen Brothers: The Filmmakers and their Films, Alien Vault, Terminator Vault, and many other books, many of which have really long titles.

He is the former editor of Empire Magazine.

If you live in the UK, you may also know from from the Discovering Film series on Sky Arts television extolling the virtues of classic film stars and directors, and he can also be heard on Talk Radio every Friday afternoon, mostly berating the state of current movies. He is just about younger than this makes him sound.

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Perry Moore was a best-selling author, film producer, screenwriter, and director, best known as the executive producer of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Moore grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia and attended Norfolk Academy. He majored in English at the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar.

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Julia Reed was born in Greenville, Mississippi, in 1960. She went to the Madeira School for Girls at age sixteen near McLean, Virginia. She began taking classes at Georgetown University but then transferred to and graduated from American University.

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Oscar-nominated screenwriter, best known for the movie adaptations of all but one of the seven Harry Potter novels. (He skipped "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.) He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2000 for his work on the movie "Wonder Boys" based on the Michael Chabon novel.
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'Spirit of Talk Talk.' Rocket 88 ( 1st Edition 2012, 2nd 2015, 3rd 2019, reprint 2023)
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