Writer/Producer/Director Richard O’Sullivan
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41 years old
New York City, NY
United States
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Writer/Producer/Director Richard O’Sullivan's Film Bio
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| Website | lostcolonyentertainment.com | | Influences | Alex Cox, Bruce Springsteen, Lenny Bruce, Andy Kaufman, Quentin Tarantino, George Orwell, Mel Brooks, Allan Moyle, Warren Zevon, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Cash, Charlie Kaufman, Aimee Mann, Bill Murray, Stanley Kubrick, Charles Schultz, Daniel Waters, John Hughes, Fiona Apple, and pretty much everyone I meet in one shape or another. | | Directors | Alex Cox, Spike Jonze, Stanley Kubrick, Joe Sedelmaier, Quentin Tarantino, Allan Moyle, Mel Brooks, Tony Richardson, P.T. Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Joss Whedon, Jim Jarmusch, Michael Lehmann, Amy Heckerling, Zach Braff, Wes Anderson, M. Night Shyamalan, and David Fincher. | | Awards | PROMAX SILVER MEDALLION AWARD
Promax International
NBC's "The More You Know"
(For innovation and excellence in public service and network branding)
LIBERTY AWARD
Lambda Legal
NBC's "The More You Know"
(For raising awareness about such issues as anti-violence, tolerance, and diversity)
SCRIPTAPALOOZA
Screenplay Finalist
"Radio Free Babylon (Or How to Suck the Brain of a President's Daughter)" | | Professional Affiliations | NBC Universal
New York, New York, USA
New York Yankees/YES Network
New York, New York, USA
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Writer/Producer/Director Richard O’Sullivan's Interests
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| Music | Arcade Fire, Patty Griffin, Josh Ritter, Bob Dylan, The Fray, Let's Active, The Teenage Prayers, Arden Kaywin, Budge Magraw, Gogol Bordello, Poets and Pornstars, Queen Adreena, Rilo Kiley, Fred Eaglesmith, The Godfathers, Dana and the Robots, The Shins, 50 Cent Haircut, Johnny Cash, Dido, Pajama Slave Dancers, Tift Merritt, Dandy Warhols, Aimee Mann, The Situationals, NEEN, Marilyn Manson, the Blazing Daddy-O's, Steve Earle, Billie Holliday, Jason and the Scorchers, Roy Orbison, Tom Waits, Fiona Apple, Nirvana, Cake, Chuck Berry, Buck Cherry, Dean Martin, Drive-by Truckers, Bruce Springsteen, Sigur Ros, Marty Casey and Lovehammers, Imperial Teen, Buddy Holly, Nina Simone, Elvis Costello, Nellie McKay, Wallflowers, Ted Hawkings, Pink Floyd, Neko Case, the Beatles, Pete Yorn, U2, Nick Drake, Bellglide, Little Richard, Seth Boulton, Frankie Vali, ELO, Eminem, Chris Isaak, The Swamp Candles, Hank Williams, The Postal Service, Insane Clown Posse, Otis Redding, Avril Lavigne, Harry Dean Stanton, Jordis Unga, Ben Folds, Rockpile, Warren Zevon, Hindu Love Gods, Patsy Cline, Tom Petty, Lisa Germano, Joe Ely, Foo Fighters, Dramarama, David Bowie, Marcy Playground, Leona Naess, Ben Folds, Cracker, Camper van Beethoveen, House of Dimes, the Rolling Stones, Joe Strummer and the Mescalaros, and much, much more. | | Movies | Repo Man, A Clockwork Orange, Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, Heathers, Crash, High Fidelity, Vanilla Sky, Mean Girls, They Live, The Royal Tenenbaums, Unbreakable, Empire Records, Batman Begins, Brick, The Last Picture Show, All the Vermeers in New York, Chasing Amy, Being John Malkovich, Kill Bill, Minority Report, Fight Club, Hardcore Logo, Garden State, Hotel New Hampshire, Art School Confidential, Dog Day Afternoon, Anchorman, Young Frankenstein, Rock and Roll High School, Alien, Harry Potter, The Grifters, Jacob's Ladder, Paper Moon, Adaptation., Let's Spend the Night Together, Goodfellas, Twister (the Harry Dean Stanton film, not the one about the tornado chasers), Caddyshack, Altered States, Raising Arizona, Dogma, Stranger Than Paradise, The House of the Spirits, Punch Drunk Love, The Graduate, Pulp Fiction, Demolition Man, Doctor Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Signs, X-Men, Sliding Doors, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Pump Up the Volume, And Justice for All, The Last Waltz, Take the Money and Run, The Sixth Sense, Sid and Nancy, Night of the Comet, The Village, Dog Day Afternoon, Corvette Summer, Hannibal, Trainspotting, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and countless other films that make me feel quite silly for spending two years of my life making a movie that was basically one dick joke after another. | | Television | Shameless, Eureka, Flashpoint, TMZ, Terminator: The Sara Conner Chronicles, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Dexter, House, Attack of the Show, Californication, Fringe, Nip/Tuck, and Grey's Anatomy. | | Books | 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Diamod Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Trainspotting, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society, A Clockwork Orange, Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words (Johnny Cash autobiography), Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hit & Run: How Jon Peters & Peter Guber Took Hollywood For a Ride in Hollywood. | | Heroes | "We've seen things happen that I don't think anybody ever thought they'd ever see in the United States. When people think of the American identity, they don't think of torture. They don't think of illegal wiretapping. They don't think of voter suppression. They don't think of no habeas corpus. Those are things that are anti-American."
-Bruce Springsteen
"If you can't play God, then wash your hands of all the things you've created."
-Commander Adama
"Battlestar Galactica"
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much information that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distraction." In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us."
-Neil Postman
"Amusing Ourselves to Death"
"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Catholic. Then they came for me... and by that time, there was no one to speak up for anyone."
-Martin Niemoeller
Pastor, German Evangelical Church
"The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival...It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is a state of war should exist. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact."
-George Orwell
"1984"
"I'm a patriot but I don't think Americans are the good guys. I don't think that we've ever necessarily been the good guys, but we created this document, the Constitution, and it's what we'll be remembered for. Cops swear to it, soldiers swear to it. To me, patriotism is about defending the Constitution. Patriots used to become heroes because they stood up to somebody...and they usually got lined up against the wall and shot because of it."
-Steve Earle
"The bankers and the preachers, they nailed Him on a cross. Then they laid Jesus Christ in His grave."
-Woody Guthrie
"So... three hours of pole dancing and bruised. Everywhere... I mean we're talkin' like, upper and inner thigh action-bruised... like a walking black-and-blue mark. I mean really though, really, I didn't know it was actually possible to have bruises in such areas of the body. Strippers dude, I tell you, I really respect the cunts now... I'm not gonna lie to you."
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Writer/Producer/Director Richard O’Sullivan's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Orientation: | Straight | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Occupation: | Filmmaker |
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Writer/Producer/Director Richard O’Sullivan's Companies
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Lost Colony Entertainment
New York, NY US
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Amdram Productions
New York, NY US
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Bang Productions
New York, NY US
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About me:
Richard O'Sullivan is a Writer/Producer/Director for film and television whose work for NBC television garnered the network the prestigious PROMAX Award. O'Sullivan heads Lost Colony Entertainment (LCE), which has carved out a niche in Hollywood with its unique form of cutting-edge material.
Utilizing some of the most talented writers, producers, directors, and effects wizards in the industry, members of O'Sullivan's LCE creative team have worked with such show biz giants as Spike TV, Universal Pictures, HGTV, The Dino De Laurentiis Company, Paramount Pictures, International Creative Management, New Line Cinema, Bravo, Dimension Films, CNBC, Columbia Pictures, National Geographic, Mutant Enemy Productions, Sleuth, Warner Brothers, Amdram Productions, The Discovery Channel, Propaganda Films, The Sci-Fi Channel, MGM, Visitors Information Channel, Happy Madison Productions, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, MSNBC, View Askew Productions, MTV Films, Lionsgate Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Versus, The Walt Disney Company, Telemundo, and the USA Network.
Currently, O'Sullivan and LCE are working on a slate of three feature film projects in conjunction with Producer John Edmonds Kozma (Nick Cassavetes' "Kentucky Rhapsody") and his production company Bang Productions:
The first, a romantic comedy from Producer Scott M. Rosenfelt (producer of such legendary films as "Home Alone," "Mystic Pizza," and "Teen Wolf") is set in the world of reality television. Entitled "One Night With You," it's based on an original story by Dan Lashley and is scripted by O'Sullivan.
Rosenfelt is currently working on the big screen adaptation of the late Larry Gelbart's Tony Award-winning play "City of Angels," directed by Oscar-winner Barry Levinson. His most successful film to date, "Home Alone," grossed nearly $500 million worldwide.
Lost Colony is also in the process of bringing to life the action flick "The Teacher" (from "Monk and Mercenary" producer Tarmo Urb) and the horror film "Hallows" (from "Cabin Fever 2" and "Being Michael Madsen" producer Patrick Durham), both scripted by O'Sullivan.
Patrick Durham is currently wrapping up work on the action/horror pic "The Bleeding," starring Vinnie Jones ("X-Men: The Last Stand"), Michael Madsen ("Kill Bill"), and Armand Assante ("American Gangster").
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Nice A-list stars who wish to attach to my projects, friendly agents and packagers, investors and financiers, studio and network execs with the power to greelight projects, producers wishing to hire me for actual paying gigs, Fiona Apple, Norah Jones, Evangeline Lilly, and/or any lovely young actress, model, or regular gal who thinks she can live up to the unfair, unrealistic, and totally hypocritical standards I set for the women who come into my life.
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