James V. Hart

James V. "Jim" Hart (born 1960 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American screenwriter and author.He wrote the 2005 children's novel Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth, a prequel depicting J. M. Barrie's villain Captain Hook, the nemesis of Peter Pan, when Hook was a youngster. Earlier, Hart wrote the screenplay to the Steven Spielberg feature film Hook which functioned as a sequel to Barrie's original story. Hart also wrote the screenplay adaptation for Crisis in the Hot Zone, but the movie never materialized. He recently did the first draft screenplay of Atlas Shrugged, which is now being fully developed by director Randall Wallace. Recently it has been announced that screenwriter James V. Hart wrote an adaptation of Sirens of Titan, which Vonnegut approved of before he died. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Hart licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.

Short documentary on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" (1992).

Release Date1992-01-01

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Vote Count11

In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994

Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of horror: the '90s.

Release Date2024-11-24

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Vote Count5

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

Director Francis Ford Coppola, cast and production crew explore the making of the 1992 masterpiece.

Release Date2007-10-08

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Vote Count7

Tuck Everlasting

Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater freedom and adventure.

Release Date2002-10-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count484

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula travels to Victorian London, where he becomes obsessed with Mina Murray—the fiancée of his solicitor, Jonathan Harker—believing her to be the reincarnation of his long-lost love.

Release Date1992-11-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5532

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

Release Date1994-11-04

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Vote Count1309

Ransom

A Native American travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered crossbow, while demanding that the town's richest residents pay him money to stop the killings.

Release Date1977-04-29

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Vote Count11

Sahara

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.

Release Date2005-04-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1569

August Rush

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.

Release Date2007-11-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2777

Hook

The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. During his trip to see Granny Wendy in London, the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter's kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland.

Release Date1991-04-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count5535

Epic

A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.

Release Date2013-05-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2850

Contact

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

Release Date1997-07-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4764

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft makes the unexpected discovery of a pulsating golden orb able to guide its holder to the mythical Pandora's Box. As the legendary artifact contains ancient mysteries of unfathomable power - said to contain one of the deadliest plagues on Earth, Lara is tasked by MI6 to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. With the aid of former Marine turned mercenary Terry Sheridan, she travels the world in pursuit of the precious item in a race against time; she must beat the unscrupulous Nobel Prize-winning scientist turned bioterrorist, Jonathan Reiss, to it.

Release Date2003-07-21

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count4383

The Hot Zone

In this anthology series, heroic scientists risk all to deal with deadly outbreaks.

Release Date2019-05-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count130

Dirty O'Neil

A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town...until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.

Release Date1974-05-01

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count16

Muppet Treasure Island

After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the hidden treasure, which was revealed by Bones before he died. On their voyage across the seas, they soon find out that not everyone on board can be trusted.

Release Date1996-02-16

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JobScreenplay

Vote Count436

The Last Mimzy

Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine.

Release Date2007-02-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenstory

Vote Count473

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Wealthy developer Jack Robinson is stunned when a gigantic human skeleton is discovered on his building site. According to a mysterious woman, it is part of a curse that has dogged his family for years. To lift the jinx placed upon him, Jack will need to visit the land in the sky - by climbing up a very tall beanstalk.

Release Date2001-12-02

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count2

Vote Count67

Gimme an 'F'

Can a squad of misfit cheerleaders with an over-age trainer possibly win the big cheerleading competition.

Release Date1984-11-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count13

Crossbones

It's 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard, reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. Part shantytown, part marauder's paradise, this is a place like no other on earth - and a mounting threat to international commerce. To gain control of this fearsome society, Tom Lowe, a highly skilled undercover assassin, is sent to the buccaneers' haven to take down the brilliant and charismatic Blackbeard. But the closer Lowe gets, the more he finds that his quest is not so simple. Lowe can't help but admire the political ideals of Blackbeard, whose thirst for knowledge knows no bounds - and no law. But Lowe is not the only danger to Blackbeard's rule. He is a man with many villainous rivals and one great weakness - a passionately driven woman whom he cannot deny.

Release Date2014-05-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count80

Treasure Island: The Adventure Begins

A young boy with an active imagination vacations at Treasure Island in Las Vegas with his parents and fantasizes that he meets Long John Silver.

Release Date1994-01-23

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count3

The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future

A Chilean family is shaken by the sudden return of a long-dead matriarch.

Release Date2023-03-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Consultant

Vote Count14

Chinese Odyssey

'Chinese Odyssey' is a supernatural high-seas adventure that pits our hero against an onslaught of deadly foes on the path to fulfilling his destiny. It's a story involving ancient mysteries, deadly sea monsters, great characters and larger-than-life adventures, which all make for a fantastic cinematic experience.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Summer Run

A young American who is not ready for adulthood spends a final summer of freedom backpacking across Europe. He falls in love and, as the summer ends, he must decide whether to stay or return to a far less alluring future.

Release Date1974-08-05

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer