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		While not exactly the exciting life McQuarrie imagined leading, the experience was a valuable one as it allowed him to study movies and audiences' reaction to them.
		Just as he was about to give up the detective agency in favor of a career with the New York City Police Department, he was approached by Singer to co-write the screenplay for "Public Access" (1993), a thriller about a small town whose secrets are revealed by the host of a local TV show.
		Singer and McQuarrie reteamed for the acclaimed "The Usual Suspects", another film noir thriller with an acclaimed script filled with twists and surprises brought to life by an impeccable cast.
	www.scriptshark.com /scriptjournal/Articles/Features/SL_cmcquar.cfm (352 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Christopher McQuarrie
		McQuarrie was born and raised in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, where he attended high school with director Bryan Singer and actor Ethan Hawke.
		McQuarrie spent the next several years dividing his time between rewriting studio movies (such as Singer’s X-Men) and developing a screenplay on the life of Alexander the Great, written with Peter Buchman, for Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.
		More recently McQuarrie has developed a script with co-writer Dylan Kussman about the life of John Wilkes Booth and "The Last Mission" with co-writer Nathan Alexander detailing the harrowing last hours of WWII in the Pacific.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Christopher_McQuarrie (577 words)

	INTERVIEW: McQuarrie's Way of the Writer-Director
		McQuarrie presents a criminal machine that he feels is operating around us, all the time.
		Christopher McQuarrie: I've always wanted to make "Alexander the Great" which is not economically the wisest first film to shoot, so I thought I should try something else first, and I knew the area in which I'd get the least amount of interference and the most amount of support was to make another crime film.
		McQuarrie: With not having the same forces working against me, the first cut of the movie was certainly overwritten.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_McQuarrie_Chris_000915.html (1437 words)

	Christopher McQuarrie - Biography - Moviefone
		Though McQuarrie's talent as an emerging director may have been difficult to gauge given the mixed reaction to his directorial debut, The Way of the Gun (2000), his talent for creating off-beat and believable characters could well be the saving grace that keeps his career in the fast lane.
		McQuarrie returned stateside shortly thereafter, finding employment at a New Jersey detective agency in the following few years.
		After that success, McQuarrie made a series of attempts to deviate from the familiar criminal element in his writing, but all met with rejection from studios.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/christopher-mcquarrie/192065/biography (397 words)

	Tony Krantz, Christopher McQuarrie and Erik Jendresen Bringing The Conversation to ABC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tony Krantz, Christopher McQuarrie and Erik Jendresen Bringing The Conversation to ABC
		Tony Krantz, Christopher McQuarrie, and Erik Jendresen are all teaming up to produce the thriller, The Conversation for ABC.
		The orignal Francis Ford Coppola flick was released in theaters in 1974, and now is coming to the small screen.
	www.movieweb.com /tv/news/52/14652.php (391 words)

	ScreenplayWriter.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		McQuarrie almost chose a career in law enforcement, and was about to enter the police academy when he got a fateful call from his childhood friend, director Bryan Singer.
		Variety called the Suspects screenplay “one of the most elaborate, tangy, and solidly satisfying original crime scripts in a long while.” As the London Times put it, most of the studios turned it down for being too complex and clever, which is exactly what the critics and the public loved about the film.
		I found McQuarrie to be engaging, hilarious, and brutally candid, especially when recalling the heartbreaking experience of trying to get his dream project, Alexander the Great, off the ground.
	www.creativescreenwriting.com /spw/cmcquarrie.cfm (455 words)

	Amazon.com: The Way of the Gun: DVD: James Caan,Benicio Del Toro,Taye Diggs,Henry Griffin (II),Armando Guerrero,Jan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		McQuarrie creates some good action sequences (particularly the slow-moving car "chase" through the alleys), but that only serves to emphasize the one major weakness of the film: the script.
		While I did enjoy the film a lot, I thought McQuarrie got a little too cutesy with the dialogue at some points, and maybe he himself realized this as there's one scene featuring one of the characters making fun of the way another talks.
		Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote the screenplay of THE USUAL SUSPECTS a few years ago, THE WAY OF THE GUN is a movie not to be missed.
	www.amazon.com /Way-Gun-Christopher-McQuarrie/dp/B000053V7A (2721 words)

	ScreenplayWriter.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For four years McQuarrie studied the audience's reactions to movies and trailers while his best friend in high school, director Bryan Singer attended the University of Southern California Film School.
		In 1991, Singer asked McQuarrie to co-write the screenplay for their first film, PUBLIC ACCESS, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival.
		We contacted Christopher McQuarrie shortly before the release of THE WAY OF THE GUN, and he was eager to share his views on the process of making his film outside of the Hollywood system and the frustrations of working within the system.
	www.screenplaywriter.net /spw/mcquarrie.cfm (578 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Criminal Conversation: In 'The Way of the Gun,' Writer-Director Christopher McQuarrie ...
		You would never guess from appearances that deep within the soul of good-natured screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie lies a figment as dark as that of Keyser Soze, the personification of pure evil birthed by McQuarrie in his screenplay for The Usual Suspects.
		But now McQuarrie is out on his own, not only writing, but also shouldering for the first time the task of directing.
		Unrepentant and unbowed, McQuarrie's criminals (led by a tough-as-nails Ryan Phillippe and The Usual Suspects' mumbling con, Benicio Del Toro) form a complicated web in which no misdeed exists in isolation.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:78580 (2390 words)

	The Way of the Gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Way of the Gun is a 2000 film, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, and James Caan.
		Many scenes are characterized by prolonged sections of eloquent speech between protagonists, and McQuarrie himself has stated that the film's purpose lies in the hospital shootout where the shootout is not shown.
		The gun battle sequences throughout the film were choreographed by Christopher McQuarrie's brother, a former Navy SEAL.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Way_of_the_Gun (1041 words)

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		Like McQuarrie's earlier Usual Suspects script, this pacey yarn is full of complex twists and turns, with all manner of visual clues given
		All these elements almost make you forget that you don't ultimately feel very emotionally involved with any of the characters: they're all on the make, but Del Torro was a bit of inspired casting, because there's just something about his eyes which makes you root for him whatever.
		The cast interviews included on this disc are disappointingly brief with irritating banner headlines introducing each point the interviewee makes.
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	The Way of the Gun \| movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When you see that same lethal pose in The Way of the Gun, Christopher McQuarrie's cheeky, bloody, floridly twisty kidnap thriller, it's still amusing, but it's now about as novel as hearing the recitation of Miranda rights on a TV crime show.
		He puts the baby faced Phillippe in a scruffy beard and turns him into a junior Christopher Walken psycho, and he has Diggs deliberately dial down his charm to a steely stealth cool.
		McQuarrie keeps his heroes at ironic arm's length, and he's too enamored of high body count action dazzle: Does the final showdown at a ''Wild Bunch'' style brothel really have to go on for 20 minutes?
	www.ew.com /ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,64895~1~0~,00.html (588 words)

	Way of the Gun Movie Review by Anthony Leong from MediaCircus.net
		From a musical score that evokes the 'spaghetti Westerns' of the Seventies, the unspoken code of conduct that govern the behavior of its anti-heroes, and the wild shoot-outs in desert locales, this is cowboy movie of the "Pulp Fiction" generation.
		Though McQuarrie tries to infuse some quirks and the odd moment of humanity into his characters, particularly with respect to the two protagonists, few of them are actually memorable, let alone likable, and it is sometimes unclear who the audience should be rooting for.
		Unfortunately, in an environment flooded with Tarantino-esque crime-dramas, the narrative twists, brutal violence, and quirky goings-on found in "Way of the Gun" are hardly groundbreaking, especially in light of the script's lack of attention to character and dialogue.
	www.mediacircus.net /wayofthegun.html (821 words)

	Christopher McQuarrie - Rotten Tomatoes
		Singer wrote the screenplay with Nathan Alexander and his "Usual Suspects" collaborator Christopher McQuarrie.
		And since production is set to begin in early summer, this flick will not get in the way of Singer's "Superman Returns" sequel, which is supposed to get rolling early next year.
		Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) has come aboard to develop with an eye to direct Warner Bros. Chimera for Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis' Dark Castle Entertainment.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /p/christopher_mcquarrie/news.php (684 words)

	Christopher McQuarrie at Hollywood.com
		After graduation, he spent a year working in Western Australia before return to the US and a job at a detective agency in New Jersey.
		While working there, McQuarrie was approached by Singer to co-write the screenplay for "Public Access" (1993), a thriller about a small town whose secrets are revealed by the host of a local TV show.
		A native of southern New Jersey, Christopher McQuarrie attended high school with Bryan Singer, his future collaborator on such monstrously popular projects as "The Usual Suspects" (1995) and "X-Men" (2000).
	www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Christopher_McQuarrie/188973 (965 words)

	The DVD Journal: The Usual Suspects: Special Edition
		Singer bathes McQuarrie's zinger-filled script in a lurid color palate that wipes away the grit and turns it into something akin to a fable.
		The first is the much-beloved commentary with director Bryan Singer and scenarist Christopher McQuarrie, which was at one point available as Tape Two of a special two-tape VHS "gift pack" (which this author still proudly owns, BTW, having used its enclosed Usual Suspects butane lighter for years to fire up her cigarillos).
		This commentary has long been celebrated as one of the best ever recorded — owing largely to the fact that McQuarrie and Singer (friends since high school) are secure enough in their talents to make fun of themselves and their work.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/u/usualsuspects_se.shtml (2518 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Way of the Gun (Widescreen): DVD: Christopher McQuarrie,Benicio Del Toro,Nicky Katt,Dylan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The kidnappers soon discover that they're out of their league when they're confronted by Mafia-connected lawyer Joe Sarno (James Caan) and a pair of hired killers, Jeffers (Taye Diggs) and Obecks (Nicky Katt); at the same time, Parker finds himself increasingly attached to Robin.
		The Way of the Gun marked the directorial debut of screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie, whose script credits include The Usual Suspects and Public Access.
		When the dialogue is there and the story is in the groove this film is loaded with good stuff.
	www.amazon.ca /Way-Gun-Widescreen-Christopher-McQuarrie/dp/B00005QJHP (1189 words)

	Christopher McQuarrie Photos - Christopher McQuarrie News - Christopher McQuarrie Information
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	Christopher McQuarrie
		A native of Princeton Junction, New Jersey, Christopher McQuarrie attended high school with Bryan Singer, his future collaborator on such monstrously popular projects as THE USUAL SUSPECTS (1995) and X-MEN (2000).
		PUBLIC ACCESS was named co-winner (with Victor Nunez's RUBY IN PARADISE) of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival.
		The screenwriter followed up that success by contributing to the shooting script for Singer's big-budget, effects-laden comic-book adventure, X-MEN (2000).
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	The Way of the Gun DVD (2000); A movie ...
		But it is not until a heavily armed group of mob hit men arrive with the ransom money that Parker and Longbaugh realize they've cooked up a spicy stew of chaos, violence, and confusion.
		The unborn baby tops it off, making Christopher McQuarrie's THE WAY OF THE GUN a terrifically tense nail-biter.
		Christopher McQuarrie - Director, Joe Kraemer - Composer, 2.
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	Posts by Christopher Campbell at Cinematical
		There's hope on the horizon, though, as a new WWI epic is being written by Christopher McQuarrie.
		The screenwriter of The Usual Suspects and the upcoming WWII movie Valkyrie, McQuarrie is interested in making a film that not only depicts the Great War, but also explains it.
		His script, titled No Man's Land (not to be confused with the German WWI film Niemandsland or the recent foreign Oscar-winner No Man's Land) focuses on the stories of three soldiers who stand in to illustrate the reasons for their nation's involvement in the war.
	www.cinematical.com /bloggers/christopher-campbell (5297 words)

	Christopher McQuarrie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	Christopher McQuarrie \| Austin Film Festival
		No cell phones or recording devices of any kind are allowed at any AFF film or panel.
		Christopher McQuarrie's credits include The Usual Suspect and The Wayof the Gun.
		Current projects include The Stanford Prison Experiment, Valkyrie and Booth.
	www.austinfilmfestival.com /new/cmcquarrie (62 words)

	X-Men: A Novelization - Dean Wesley Smith, Ed Solomon, Christopher McQuarrie Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		X-Men: A Novelization - Dean Wesley Smith, Ed Solomon, Christopher McQuarrie Kristine Kathryn Rusch
		X-Men: A Novelization by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Ed Solomon, Christopher McQuarrie
		Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, and Rogue, mutants born with remarkable powers, band together as the X-Men to protect a world that fears and hates them from the powerful mutant Magneto.
	www.biblio.com /books/81908059.html (238 words)

	Usual Suspects, The Easter Egg : Christopher McQuarrie
		Usual Suspects, The Easter Egg : Christopher McQuarrie
		In the scene where each of the suspects is being interrogated individually, we see the torsos of two cops who are circling them as the ask questions.
		The cop with the somewhat raspy voice, and whose face is partially shown as Gabriel Byrne is interrogated, is none other than Christopher McQuarrie - the writer of the screenplay for The Usual Suspects.
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	Amazon.ca: Way of the Gun (Widescreen): DVD: Christopher McQuarrie,Ryan Phillippe,Benicio Del Toro,James Caan,Juliette ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Starring: James Caan, Benicio Del Toro Director: Christopher McQuarrie MPAA Rating:
		This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries.
		In this suspense thriller, two small-time crooks make a bid for the big time with disastrous results.
	www.amazon.ca /Way-Gun-Widescreen-Ryan-Phillippe/dp/B000053V7A (1169 words)

	The Way of the gun (2000), d:Christopher Mcquarrie s:Ryan Phillippe, Benicio del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, ...
		The Way of the gun (2000), d:Christopher Mcquarrie s:Ryan Phillippe, Benicio del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, James Caan
		Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Benicio del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, James Caan
		Coolness: 5/10 - The movie does show a lot of promise, but it never really gets to where it should be going and when it’s finished you don’t really pray for a sequel.
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