Doug Richardson

Doug Richardson is an American screenwriter and novelist who writes action movies and thrillers.^[1][2] He is best known for writing movies like Die Hard 2, Bad Boys and Hostage and was the first Hollywood writer to sell a spec script for a million dollars.^[3]

Career

Richardson's first major Hollywood project was writing Die Hard 2, a commission he received from Larry Gordon just three weeks into the theatrical run of the original Die Hard film.^[3] He went on to write Bad Boys, adapting it from an existing screenplay by George Gallo. The film was directed by Michael Bay, and became a first film starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith.^[3]

Filmography

• Die Hard 2 (1990) (Screenplay)^[4]
• Money Train (1995) (Screenplay)^{[citation needed]}
• Bad Boys (1995) (Screenplay)^[5]
• Welcome to Mooseport (2004) (Story/Executive Producer)
• Hostage (2005) (Screenplay)^[6]
• Live Free or Die Hard (2007) (Re-write).
• Black Water Transit (2009, unreleased) (Initial draft).

Novels

• Dark Horse (1997)
• True Believers (1999)
• The Safety Expert (2011)
• Blood Money (2013)
• 99 Percent Kill: A Lucky Dey Thriller (2015)
• Reaper: A Lucky Dey Thriller (2016)
• American Bang: A Lucky Dey Thriller (2017)
• The Night is Never Black: A Lucky Dey Thriller (2018)

Nonfiction

• The Smoking Gun: True Tales from Hollywood's Screenwriting Trenches (2015)