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	SPLICEDwire \| Andrew Niccol interview for "Simone" (2002)
		Niccol is the screenwriter behind "The Truman Show" and writer-director of "Gattaca."
		Andrew Niccol has such piercing blue-gray eyes that if I weren't meeting him in person, I'd be wont to think they were some kind of digital touch-up.
		In "Simone," the writer of "The Truman Show" and "Gattaca" (which he also directed) has created another uncanny "what if..." scenario about a neurotic down-and-out film director named Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino) whose career is pulled out of a tailspin by a computer program that creates a hyper-real CGI actress.
	www.splicedonline.com /02features/aniccol.html (1411 words)

	Andrew Niccol
		Drawing on the outsider view that, as he once asserted, arose from his New Zealand roots, Andrew Niccol established his reputation as a writer/director with a gift for exploring techno-paranoia and isolation in Gattaca (1997) and The Truman Show (1998).
		After making ads for ten years, Niccol decided to relocate to Hollywood in order to make movies that "lasted longer than 60 seconds." Though he wrote the screenplay for The Truman Show before Gattaca, it was the latter film that became Niccol's Hollywood debut as a writer as well as director.
		Co-produced by Niccol, directed by fellow down under talent Peter Weir, and famously featuring Jim Carrey in his first "straight" starring role, The Truman Show's vision of a TV-made man who is the unwitting star of a life manufactured for perpetual broadcast was lauded by the critics for its smart satire of contemporary media culture.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P231638 (394 words)

	SIMONE
		Niccol has fun with his impossibly cutesy gadgets and their abilities, but once hes beyond that, in our "story," things go awry.
		Niccol gives Viktor great speeches about why Simone is nothing new -- athletes are on steroids, singers lip-sync, models have surgery -- but I never fully believed Viktors character: his motivations, his self-disgust, his reversal.
		And while Niccol has plenty to say and the means to say it, he doesnt bring it together for the entertainment it should have been.
	www.screenwritersutopia.com /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2646 (2176 words)

	FILMDECULTE : S1m0ne, de Andrew Niccol
		In his second directorial feature, the talented Andrew Niccol invites us to follow the astounding career of this shooting star and, through her, the story of her mentor, her creator, Victor Taransky (a wonderful Al Pacino whose character is reminiscent of The Truman Show’s Christoph).
		Once more, Niccol focuses on man’s relation to images and their power on us, as well as on the themes of perfection and illusion.
		Niccol, with his discreet directing and sharp, precise writing, gives us a couple of memorable laughs.
	www.filmdeculte.com /film/film.php?id=279 (399 words)

	Screentalk Interview - Andrew Niccol
		Gattaca, which Niccol wrote and directed, was in 1997 a poignant comment about the moral issues regarding genetic engineering that we are currently dealing with as a society.
		Niccol’s first script, The Truman Show, was not only responsible for bringing out Jim Carrey’s serious side, it also offered a uniquely accurate portrayal of the thin line that exists between entertainment and exploitation in reality TV.
		Niccol was so tight on cash in fact that he ended up purchasing many of the AK-47’s featured in the film himself, since it was cheaper than renting (he sold them back at a loss after the movie wrapped).
	www.screentalk.biz /interviews/andrewniccol_interview.php (656 words)

	Andrew Niccol -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The three showings in 2003 were sold out, despite being in a cinema located over an hour from (The capital of New Zealand) Wellington, the nearest metropolitan centre.
		Niccol is presently helming Lord of War, which he wrote.
		The film is due for release in 2005 and stars (Click link for more info and facts about Nicolas Cage) Nicolas Cage and (Click link for more info and facts about Ethan Hawke) Ethan Hawke, with whom he worked on Gattaca.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/andrew_niccol.htm (249 words)

	Gattaca a movie review by What's HOT! in Movies. Gattaca starring Jude Law, Niccol, Uma Thurman, Ernest Borgnine, Gore ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Andrew Niccol creates a complete and believable world of the future based on the genetic testing that is becoming a reality today," explains producer Stacey Sher.
		Says Niccol: "I would hate for anyone to look at my film and think it is advocating that you never tamper with genes, because there have been and will be many positive things to come out of this kind of science in terms of curing diseases.
		Andrew Niccol adjusted his script to accommodate Law's native-born British accent after seeing the actor in the role.
	www.theeunderground.com /Movies/gattaca.shtml (1841 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Gattaca" review (2001) Andrew Niccol, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law
		Writer-director Andrew Niccol knows we humans consider ourselves the pinnacle of evolution and he carefully sustains an unsettling atmosphere by making it perfectly clear we are a step down on the food chain to the evolutionary aristocracy in this test-tube world.
		Niccol's script is also a little erratic in its application of the underlying social commentary.
		Niccol is a talented storyteller who succeeds in balancing arresting style and provocative substance, even if he is a little uneven about it.
	www.hypogw.splicedwire.com /97reviews/gattaca.html (592 words)

	Andrew Niccol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In bringing to life his vision of a future society obsessed with human perfection, Andrew Niccol brought a number of disciplines into his screenplay, from eugenics to forensic science to social engineering.
		Niccol, a director of commercials in Britain, makes his feature debut with GATTACA, and notes his career trajectory is a "fairly well-trodden path now; you have the Scott brothers, you have Alan Parker, a lot of people come from, I think, especially English advertising because there's more of an obligation to entertain in those commercials.
		Niccol recalls when he first spoke to Thurman about the role that she "had a wonderful take on how to play Irene, and that was that she 'firm in her frailty'; she was one of those people who was absolutely sure of what she couldn't do, which is interesting.
	talentdevelop.com /aniccol.html (1329 words)

	The Truman Show - CG Jung Page
		While Andrew Niccol deserves credit for writing a brilliant screenplay, and Peter Weir must be applauded for translating the story into a visual mode, there is an omniscient cosmological force at play here that perhaps we can only appreciate once our society has gone beyond this ambigious postmodern age.
		Niccol had wished to have someone like Peter Weir to direct this movie, he had great confidence in his writing but very little in his directing ability.
		The fact that Niccol, Carrey, and Weir did not happen to come together simultaneously, is mute, what resonates is how everything came together in a synchronous fashion for this film to be made.
	www.cgjungpage.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=696&Item... (3193 words)

	Gattaca . Newcity Chicago . 10-27-97
		First is writer-director Andrew Niccol's rigidly formal, deliciously piss-elegant direction is as determinist as the possible world he suggests; then expressive artifacts -- clothing, cars, houses, monuments -- belong in glossy magazines (such as wallpaper*) that celebrate the industrial designer as the great artist of the twentieth century.
		A 33-year-old New Zealand native, Niccol (whose first script, "The Truman Show," directed by Peter Weir and starring Jim Carrey, will appear this Christmas) has made a film the themes of which are so apparent, it's almost impossible to discuss them.
		Niccol piles on the research with "notebooks this high," sharing sketches, photos and other citations with his technical crew, amending his words on the page with something concrete.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/chicago/g/gattaca1.html (872 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "S1m0ne" review (2002) Andrew Niccol, Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Winona Ryder
		Niccol delights in toying with the ramifications of this not-so-secret nightmare of movie actors in the age of ever-advancing computer-generated characters.
		Ironically, Niccol makes plenty of jokes about self-important cinema ("These films are speaking to the human condition," Taransky claims of his work) while being guilty of the same sins and worse.
		For the record, Niccol did not actually generate Simone in a computer for the movie, but she is computer-enhanced.
	www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/simone.html (884 words)

	Open Letter to Andrew M. Niccol
		The First Ever Website Devoted to Andrew M. Niccol is a very nice page giving some background info and news about his curren project entitled Simone, which is about a film in production where the main actress drops out and is replaced by a digital creation.
		Andrew Niccol This page has an interesting article about the making of Gattaca with comments by Andrew as well as the actors and other people about the themes of the film.
		The Truman Show, final, by Andrew M. Niccol is still a much darker vision than the final film, but some familiar elements have appeared and the story has begun to more closely resemble the finished product.
	www.xenobuzz.com /OpenLettertoAndrewNiccol.htm (1472 words)

	The Truman Show - Andrew Niccol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Andrew Niccol has written two films with a strong emphasis on technology's effect on human behavior.
		Niccol created a world in which skin color did not matter anymore.
		So far, critics are praising Niccol's Truman for it's subtle and original angle on the media.
	www.un-official.com /Truman/TSNiccol.html (112 words)

	The Connection.org : Andrew Niccol
		Andrew Niccol says he sets his films about five minutes in the future, and what a future it's been.
		What Niccol says about our obsession with celebrity, about the culture and the future of entertainment, rips at the American Dream Machine, at Hollywood and who we are.
		Niccol, for me the more interest thing about Truman was how captive the audience was.
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2002/08/20020808_b_main.asp (204 words)

	IGN: IGN Interviews Andrew Niccol
		Niccol recently sat down with IGN FilmForce to discuss his controversial new film, the prospect of aligning with actual arms dealers in order to assemble the hardware needed for his production, and his evolving interest in subjects that possess significant and lasting real-time resonance in contemporary culture.
		ANDREW NICCOL: That was intentional, just to be a little subversive and make almost like a 'how-to' film – how to be an arms dealer – and I thought that would be a more interesting way into it than a typical story structure.
		NICCOL: Nicolas Cage's character is based on five different arms dealers; he's sort of a composite character.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/651/651252p1.html (703 words)

	S1m0ne (2002): Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Andrew Niccol
		"Andrew Niccol proves once again to be one of our great emerging satirists with this creepy, funny film."
		"Niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators' symbolic images with his words, insinuating, for example, that in Hollywood, only God speaks to the press"
		"Niccol makes what seems like a preposterous idea not only fresh and entertaining, but most of all reveals said idea to be not at all far removed from reality."
	ofcs.rottentomatoes.com /movie-1114834/reviews.php (769 words)

	Gattaca (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He has no illusions about life, or himself, and he is the perfect counterpoint to Hawke's unrelenting dreamer.
		The performances only enhance, however, a wonderful script by first time writer/director Andrew Niccol.
		Niccol addresses many of them already, mostly dealing with the discrimination that would probably take place in society.
	www.imdb.com /Details?0119177 (731 words)

	INTERVIEW: EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Niccol Is Lord of War - MovieWeb
		In Lions Gate's latest action adventure "Lord of War," Yuri Orlov (Nicholas Cage) is an international arms dealer who exploits the violence of human nature and sells guns to the world's most recognized corrupt leaders and dictators while always managing to outmaneuver the authorities and hide his true profession from his family.
		From The Truman Show to Lord of War, Niccol explained "they're all my babies so I can't really compare." That's why he was so upset when this film almost didn't get made.
		Niccol explained he was intrigued by arms dealers because they don't have the same thought process as others.
	movieweb.com /news/news.php?id=9202 (1811 words)

	The First Ever Web Site Devoted to Andrew M. Niccol
		Born in New Zealand in 1964, Andrew M. Niccol made his feature film directorial debut with Gattaca in 1997.
		Niccol's sophomoric directorial effort, was S1m0ne, in which over-the-hill Hollywood director, Victor Taransky (Al Pacino) regains critical success after he discovers a one-of-a-kind actressNiccol's latest projects include Paani and Terminal.
		Andrew Niccol will write the screenplay for Paani, a film that will be directed by Shekhar Kapur (Bandit Queen, Four Feathers).
	www.angelfire.com /al/andrewniccol (235 words)

	AboutFilm.com - S1m0ne (2002)
		The fanciful hijinks of the characters may bring a smile to your face and a brief spell of laughter, but bitingly funny it never is.
		Niccol has to be admired for his wild imagination to have come up with such an interesting concept as the one in Simone.
		Niccol, however, doesn't give us any of that information until after Simone is created, and even then the information is superficial.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/s/s1m0ne.htm (678 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Andrew Niccol: MAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Drawing on the outsider view that, as he once asserted, arose from his New Zealand roots, Andrew Niccol established his reputation as a...
		Born in New Zealand in 1964, Andrew M. Niccol made his feature film directorial...
		Andrew Niccol will write the screenplay for Paani, a film that will be...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/main.adp?sid=231638 (244 words)

	Andrew Niccol, June 11, 1998
		AndrewNiccol: My name is Andrew Niccol My first film was a film I wrote and directed, Gattaca.
		Moderator: to : Andrew, a lot of kudos have gone to Carrey for his standout performance in TRUMAN, but I thought Ed Harris was also wonderful as Christoph.
		Moderator: Thanks Andrew for letting us peer into your life for an hour.
	www.scifi.com /transcripts/AndrewNiccol.html (2417 words)

	Amazon.com: The Truman Show: The Shooting Script: Books: Andrew Niccol,Peter Weir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This screenplay (by Gattaca author Andrew Niccol) is required reading, and the 35 good-quality color stills from the film in the photo album at the center of the book are nicely laid out with helpful, intelligent captions.
		The screenplay by Andrew Niccol (and director Weir, who changed the setting from New York to Florida) shows us just how absurd it is, the lengths that producers of television go to entertain us.
		Niccol should have won an Oscar, but once again, Hollywood makes a big deal out of the TRUELY OVERRATED nonsense.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1557043671?v=glance (1239 words)

	Andrew Niccol interview
		New Zealand-born writer-director Andrew Niccol has been the brains behind some of the most mind-bending films in recent years.
		His third shot at directing his own script is possibly his most intriguing cinematic vision yet.
		As the film's release date neared, Niccol sat down with us to discuss his career and his latest artistic vision.
	www.popentertainment.com /niccol.htm (1579 words)

	Lord of War (2005): Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Andrew Niccol
		"Niccol squeezes his cartoonish irony for pathos, as if retelling Superman from the dark side but softening it to make us lament, 'Poor Lex Luthor.
		"Niccol’s attention to detail perks up the screenplay, and constantly strengthens the ideas that he’s frantically trying to communicate."
		"Andrew Niccol takes on a huge issue and gives it the Goodfellas treatment...[but it is] less successful, overlong and not as emotionally engaging"
	ofcs.rottentomatoes.com /movie-10005590/reviews.php (550 words)

	INTERVIEW: Andrew Niccol Talks 'Lord of War' - RopeofSilicon.com
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		Andrew Niccol is one of the better screenwriters working in my humble opinion, with works such as Gattaca, The Truman Show and The Terminal to his credit.
		He wrote and directed his latest work, Lord of War which deals with the subject of arms dealing.
	www.ropeofsilicon.com /news.php?id=2779 (1130 words)

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