Lecturer

E-mail: beauthorne@gmail.com
Office: CMA 7.234

Beau Thorne is a screenwriter based in Austin, TX.  His adaptation of the Rockstar videogame MAX PAYNE starring Mark Wahlberg debuted at #1 in the box office.  He's adapted the graphic novel HIDING IN TIME for Warner Brothers, with Dan Lin (TERMINATOR: SALVATION, SHERLOCK HOLMES) producing.  His original feature CURE is being produced by Vertigo Entertainment (THE RING, THE GRUDGE).  Most recently, he's co-written the spec television pilot BOMBTOWN, a historical drama set in Los Alamos, NM during the race to build the bomb.  As an undergraduate production student in UT's RTF department, he was awarded the Todd Milam Schulze Scholarship.  He's a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, a Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist, and a member of the WGA.  He grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina.