Shane Black Biography

Shane Black, a passionate reader as a child, understood he had to become a writer one day. After leaving U.C.L.A., Black sold his first screenplay, Lethal Weapon, at just 22. After the massive success of the Mel Gibson and Danny Glover movie, Black was asked to write three spin-offs. The Last Boy Scout (1991), his fourth script, earned him $1.75 million, the highest price ever awarded for a screenplay. He sold 1996's The Long Kiss Goodnight for more than $2 million. After penning the script for A.W.O.L. (1999), despite being the most lavishly rewarded screenwriter in Hollywood, he took a hiatus from action movies. Recalling his love of detective fiction from his adolescence, he returned to the Hollywood industry to plan his character-driven film Kiss Bang (2005) with Robert Downey Jr., which was loosely based on Brett Halliday's story about an investigator for hire.

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