Richard Jefferies (screenwriter)
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Richard L. Jefferies (born March 1956) is an American screenwriter, film producer, film director and editor. He wrote and executive produced Cold Creek Manor. He was a screenwriter on Tron Legacy for Disney Studios and directed the 2008 Syfy Original film Living Hell. Jefferies partners with writer/director/producer Ethan Wiley in transmedia production company Wiseacre Films.
Jefferies' father was a movie theater manager.[1] He studied from 1974 to 1978 at California Institute of the Arts.[2] Together with Mark Kirkland he won a Student Academy Award for his animated short film Fame about a song by David Bowie.[3] After his studies he founded New Hollywood Inc. together with David Koenigsberg, Osvaldo Zornizer and Mark Kirkland.[4]
His work on Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Tron: Legacy was not credited.[1][5]
