Franco Ferrini

Franco Ferrini (born 5 January 1944^{[citation needed]}) is an Italian screenwriter.

Franco Ferrini
Born	(1944-01-05) 5 January 1944 (age 81)[citation needed] La Spezia, Liguria, Italy[citation needed]
Occupation	Screenwriter
Known for	Collaborations with Dario Argento

Ferrini was initially a film critic. Ferrini had worked on projects such as Elio Petri's unmade spy film Chi illumine la grande notte and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984).^[1] While Ferrini is credited as a screenwriter one of the five credited screenwriters on the film, intensive revisions of the drafts for the film were done during the later half of the 1970s. Leone has cited Stuart Kaminsky and Leonardo Benvenuti as the principal contributors who "miraculously concluded" the screenplay.^[2]

Ferrini has made several films collaborating with Dario Argento, with the first being Phenomena (1985).^[1] He was one of the interviewees represented in the book Spaghetti Nightmares.^[3]

Select filmography

Title	Year	Credited as			Notes	Ref(s)
		Screenwriter	Screen story writer	Other
Crimebusters	1976	Yes				[4]
Red Rings of Fear	1978	Yes				[5]
Once Upon a Time in America	1984	Yes				[6]
Phenomena	1985	Yes	Yes			[7][8]
Demons	1985	Yes				[9][10]
Nothing Underneath	1985	Yes				[9][11][12]
Demons 2	1986	Yes	Yes			[13]
Sweets from a Stranger	1987	Yes	Yes	Yes	Director	[14][15][16]
Opera	1987	Yes				[17][18]
The Church	1989	Yes	Yes			[19][20]
Etoile	1989	Yes				[21]
Two Evil Eyes	1990	Yes				[22][23]
The Stendhal Syndrome	1996		Yes			[24][25]
Dark Glasses	2022	Yes				[26][27][28]