Seth Lochhead

Lochhead attended Vancouver Film School's Writing for Film & Television program, where he wrote his first screenplay, Hanna, while he was in his early 20s.^[1][2] He completed the script after leaving film school^[3] and in 2006 it was listed on the Hollywood Black List of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood.^[4][5] Lochhead sold the screenplay to Focus Features in March 2007, although he received a much higher bid from another American production company.^[4][6]

Hanna was directed by Joe Wright and released in 2011 after being in development for a total of six years.^[7] Lochhead shared the writing credit with David Farr, a British writer and theatre director, who wrote another draft of the film during its development (whom Lochhead does not personally know).^[7] Before Hanna had been produced, Lochhead was approached to pitch himself as a writer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and a film adaptation of the Masters of the Universe series featuring He-Man.^[7]

He has written several screenplays since Hanna, including Cadar, which was sold to Spitfire Pictures, Tin Man for Rumble^[8], and Governess, which was picked up by Warner Bros. with Michael Bay as a producer.^[9] In 2013, it was announced Lochhead had been chosen to write a film adaption of Shadow of the Colossus.^[10] That same year, he was attached to adapt Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles for director Catherine Hardwicke.^[11] Lochhead had also been attached to adapt the graphic novel Who is Jakes Ellis? for David Yates, at 20th Century Fox, but by 2016 both had exited the project.^[12]

Lochhead currently lives in Vancouver with his girlfriend.^[9] In a 2011 interview, Lochhead said he had considered becoming a film director in addition to screenwriting, as well as relocating to Los Angeles.^[13]

His mother is a feminist and his father is a skilled fisherman and carpenter; Lochhead has said they both influenced his self-sufficiency.^[1]