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Kelly Fremon Craig

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Kelly Fremon Craig
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Fremon Craig in 2016
Born
Kelly Fremon

(1981-01-01) January 1, 1981 (age 42)
Whittier, California, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of California, Irvine
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, producer
Years active2000s–present
Notable work
Children1

Kelly Fremon Craig (born January 1, 1981) is an American screenwriter, producer, and film director. She is known for directing, writing, and co-producing the 2016 coming-of-age dramedy The Edge of Seventeen.

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Screenwriter

Screenwriter

A screenplay writer is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.

Film producer

Film producer

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The Edge of Seventeen

The Edge of Seventeen

The Edge of Seventeen is a 2016 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, in her directorial debut. The film stars Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, Kyra Sedgwick, and Haley Lu Richardson.

Early life

Fremon Craig was born in Whittier, California and graduated from UC Irvine with an English degree. When she was 13, she watched a lot of MTV, which sparked her interest in music videos. She stated that music videos were "like little short films". Spoken word or slam poetry was what Fremon Craig initially began writing.[1]

Career

2000s

Fremon Craig started out by writing sketch comedy and spoken word poetry in college, then landed an internship in the film division of Immortal Entertainment, where she read her first film script and began to pursue screenwriting. She developed several screenplays during the 2000s, including a modern high school retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac and a comedic remake of the 2004 French drama Intimate Strangers for Paramount Pictures. One of her scripts, Ticket to Ride, caught the attention of Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman. He bought the script under his The Montecito Picture Company as a directing vehicle for himself. According to Reitman, the script was rewritten at least 15 times. The film was released, under the new title Post Grad and was instead directed by Shrek director Vicky Jenson. Post Grad was released in 2009 to critical and commercial disappointment.

2010s

In 2011 Fremon Craig completed another script titled Besties and sent the script to James L. Brooks. Brooks bought the script and it was announced that Fremon Craig would direct the film and Brooks would serve as a producer and mentor for her first film.[2] No updates were issued for the feature until August 2015, when Hailee Steinfeld was announced to star in the film. Casting continued until October of that same year, with filming commencing that same month. The film was released by STX Entertainment in fall 2016 under its new title The Edge of Seventeen to critical praise and it was a modest financial hit. Fremon Craig kept a series of journals that helped inspire her while writing The Edge of Seventeen. She took some of these journal entries and formed them into the script.[3] For research on the film and script, Fremon Craig went to high schools and hung out with teenagers to better understand what their lives were like.[1] Fremon Craig also provided uncredited rewrites (and was briefly attached as co-screenwriter[4]) for the 2018 Transformers spin-off film, Bumblebee, which also starred Steinfeld.

2020s

Fremon Craig was originally attached as the sole screenwriter for an animated film adaptation of Scooby-Doo for Warner Animation Group.[5] The film, released as Scoob! in 2020, was instead rewritten by Adam Sztykiel, Jack Donaldson, Derek Elliott, Matt Lieberman, Eyal Podell, and Jonathon E. Stewart. Fremon Craig is currently collaborating again with James L. Brooks in the film adaptation of the Judy Blume book Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.[6]

Upcoming projects

Influences

Fremon Craig has cited writer-director John Hughes as an influence on writing The Edge of Seventeen,[9][10] and has mentioned Christopher Guest, Alexander Payne, Nick Hornby, and David Sedaris as inspirations.[11] She also takes inspiration from Nora Ephron by taking moments of her own life and putting them into her writing.[12] Fremon Craig stated that James L. Brooks is her comedy idol,[3] “there's nobody in the world I love more than Jim Brooks. Like he is the reason I wanted to be a filmmaker."[1]

Unrealized projects

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Personal life

Fremon Craig resides in Los Angeles with her husband and young son.[14] She is a represented by UTA and Kaplan/Perrone.[7]

Filmography

Title Year Role
Streak 2008 Writer, story
Post Grad 2009 Screenwriter
The Edge of Seventeen[15][16][17] 2016 Director, screenwriter
Bumblebee[18] 2018 Uncredited rewrites
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret[7] 2023 Director, screenwriter, executive producer

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Streak is a 2008 American coming-of-age short film directed by Demi Moore, written by Kelly Fremon and Allan Loeb, and starring Brittany Snow and Rumer Willis. The film was Moore's first film as a director.

Post Grad

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Post Grad is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Vicky Jenson and starring Alexis Bledel, about a recent college graduate who moves back in with her family while she figures out what she wants to do next.

The Edge of Seventeen

The Edge of Seventeen

The Edge of Seventeen is a 2016 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, in her directorial debut. The film stars Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, Kyra Sedgwick, and Haley Lu Richardson.

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Bumblebee is a 2018 science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line character of the same name. The film is the sixth installment in the Transformers film series while serving as both a spin-off and prequel to the 2007 film. The film is directed by Travis Knight and written by Christina Hodson. It stars Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Ortiz, Jason Drucker, and Pamela Adlon, and features Dylan O'Brien, Angela Bassett, Justin Theroux, and Peter Cullen in voice roles. It was Knight's first live-action film, as well as the first film in the Transformers series not to be directed by Michael Bay, who instead acted as a producer. Principal photography on the film began on July 31, 2017, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (film)

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (film)

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is an upcoming American coming-of-age comedy drama film written for the screen and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Judy Blume. It stars Abby Ryder Fortson as the title character of Margaret Simon and Rachel McAdams as her mother Barbara.

Accolades

List of awards and nominations
Year Award Category Film(s) Result Notes
2016 Critics' Choice Movie Awards Best Comedy The Edge of Seventeen Nominated [19]

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New York Film Critics Circle Best First Film Won[a] [21]
Chicago Film Critics Association Most Promising Filmmaker Nominated [22]
Toronto Film Critics Association Best First Feature Runner-up [23]
Detroit Film Critics Society Best Film Nominated [24]
Best Breakthrough Won
Austin Film Critics Association Best First Film Nominated [25][26]
Indiewire Critics' Poll Best First Feature 3rd place
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards Breakout Filmmaker of the Year Nominated
2017 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards OFCC Award for Best First Film 2nd place [27]
Directors Guild of America Awards First-Time Feature Film Nominated [28]
Golden Tomato Awards Best Comedy Movie 2016 5th place
Online Film & Television Association Best Feature Debut Nominated
2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Movie Nominated [29]

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Chicago Film Critics Association

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2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards

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Note

  1. ^ Tied with Trey Edward Shults for Krisha.

Source: "Kelly Fremon Craig", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 23rd), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Fremon_Craig.

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  4. ^ https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachments/credit-png.28062283/
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