Geoff LaTulippe is an American

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and

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best known as the writer of the 2010 film '' Going the Distance''.

Early life

LaTulippe was born in

Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...

. His father's job as a casket salesman caused his family to move across the United States between numerous cities before they settled in

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Harrisburg is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Dauphin County. With a population of 50,135 as of the 2021 census, Harrisburg is the 9th largest city and 15th largest municipality in Pe ...

. LaTulippe attended James Madison University in Virginia, where he studied film and writing.

Career

Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, California, LaTulippe was hired as a

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at New Line Cinema, a job he was offered by his friend who worked at the studio. After working there for two years, he tired of the job, saying that it "start dto suck away ycreativity". In July 2008, he sold a spec script titled '' Going the Distance'' to New Line Cinema, a story based on his friend David Neustadter's previous long-term relationship. The film was ultimately directed by Nanette Burstein and released in September 2010. After selling his first screenplay, he quit his job as a script reader and became a full-time writer. It was announced in 2009 that LaTulippe would write a

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of '' Breathers: A Zombie's Lament'', a novel by

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, although the film is yet to go into production. In 2011, he was approached by the talent agency William Morris Endeavor (WME) to create a humorous short film about their company. The result was ''Yom Kippur at WME'', which starred

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. The short film's popularity snowballed and it caught the attention of Adam Goodman, the president of Paramount Film Group, who then contacted LaTulippe to offer him a job as a

. In 2012 Paramount announced that LaTulippe would direct an as-yet unnamed film for the studio.

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Latulippe, Geoff Living people Writers from Cleveland Writers from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania American male screenwriters James Madison University alumni Artists from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Film directors from Pennsylvania Screenwriters from Ohio Screenwriters from Pennsylvania Year of birth missing (living people)