Roger Avary

Birth Name:

Roger Roberts Avary

Birth Place:

Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada

Profession

Writer, Producer, Director, Actor, Editorial department, Soundtrack, Cinematographer, Music department

Bravo Developing Three Dramas, Including Rules of Attraction Adaptation

Bravo has added three new dramas to their development slate, including an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' Rules of Attraction, the network announced Friday. Based on the book and film of the same name, Rules of Attraction follows the students and faculty at Camden College where children of the 1 percent-ers live as unhinged and wild adults. The high-concept murder mystery will jump through 12 different points of view. Roger Avary, who wrote and directed the film adaptation, will write the drama with Greg Shapiro serving as executive producer.

Fri, May 9, 2014

Bravo Developing Three Dramas, Including Rules of Attraction Adaptation

Exclusive: Bret Easton Ellis, From Bedrooms to Living Rooms?

Is TV ready for Bret Easton Ellis? Ever since the 1985 release of his best-selling tale of L.A. youth-gone-amoral, Less Than Zero, young Hollywood — including television faves like James Van Der Beek, Ian Somerhalder and Austin Nichols — have populated the feature-film adaptations of Ellis' edgy, unsettling novels. Now, with the 25-years-in-the-waiting publication of the engrossing Zero sequel, Imperial Bedrooms, Ellis is gearing up to take on the small screen. If a certain cable network has the guts, that is...

Tue, Jun 29, 2010

Exclusive: Bret Easton Ellis, From Bedrooms to Living Rooms?

TVGuide.com's In Focus: The Joys of Being Ian Somerhalder

On the CW's breakout hit The Vampire Diaries, Ian Somerhalder plays a nearly 170-year-old man who — perhaps unwittingly — became a vampire as a teen. Though the actor's luck has been indisputably better than that of his character, Damon Salvatore, both have had the same response to the twists in their lives: outright glee. For Damon, that giddiness manifests itself in the smirky, wanton torment of the people who surround him. In Somerhalder, fortunately, it takes a more gracious form. "Right now, where I am, doing what I'm doing, it's exactly where I want to be," he says. See photos of Ian Somerhalder's career As Vampire Diaries wraps up its first season (Thursday at 9/8c), look to learn...

Thu, May 13, 2010

TVGuide.com's In Focus: The Joys of Being Ian Somerhalder

Pulp Fiction Writer Roger Avary Jailed

Roger Avary, who won an Oscar for co-writing Pulp Fiction, has been removed from a work furlough program and transferred to a California jail, The Associated Press reports.The move comes days after The Los Angeles Times questioned whether Avary was using Twitter from jail. Ventura County sheriff's spokesman Capt. Ross Bonfiglio told the AP that Avary was incarcerated over ...

Sun, Nov 29, 2009