Evan Daugherty (born 1981) is an American screenwriter. He wrote the films '' Killing Season'', ''

Snow White and the Huntsman ''Snow White and the Huntsman'' is a 2012 American fantasy film based on the German fairy tale "Snow White" compiled by the Brothers Grimm. The directorial debut of Rupert Sanders, it was written by Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock and Hossein Am ...

'' and the

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of '' Divergent''.

Career

Daugherty’s first screenplay was ''Shrapnel''. It won first place in the 200
Script Pipeline
contest and was featured in the 2008 ''Black List'', for screenplays not yet made into films Daugherty also wrote, directed, and edited the short film ''Rusty Forkblade'', which won the 2007 Bronze Medal for Excellence at the Park City Film Music Festival. Warner Bros. announced in 2009 that John Stevenson, director of ''

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'', was working on a new ''He-Man'' film, ''Grayskull'', with scripting duties handed to Daugherty. Daugherty's original screenplay, ''

'' was sold to

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for $3.2 million. It was later altered by

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and

Hossein Amini Hossein Amini ( fa, حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director. Amini has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film '' The Win ...

. Daugherty's idea for ''Snow White and the Huntsman'' came from a homework assignment by his professor at

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to "take a new spin on a classic fairytale". According to the Writer's Guild, he contributed 50%-60% of the screenplay, with Hancock and Amini each contributing 20%-25%. Daugherty performed rewrites on ''

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' is an American media franchise created by the comic book artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It follows Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Leonardo, Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Miche ...

''. In 2015 the film was nominated for five

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, including Worst Screenplay. Daughtery was attached to a third ''G.I. Joe'' film for

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.'Snow White and the Huntsman' Writer Tapped for 'G.I. Joe 3' (Exclusive)
/ref> He was also set to write and executive produce ''Esmeralda'' for

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, based on ''

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'', though no new details have since emerged. He contributed material to the 2018 reboot of ''

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''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Daugherty, Evan 1981 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American male screenwriters American male writers American screenwriters St. Mark's School (Texas) alumni Tisch School of the Arts alumni

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