GrahamYost is a Canadian film and television screenwriter.
He is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies.
When Graham was a child, his father once sent him to school with the note "Graham is late for school because I had him stay up late to watch Citizen Kane."
GrahamYost, the creator of Boomtown wrote 2 episodes of the mini-series which starred Donnie Walhberg and Neal McDonough.
EP 17: Blackout - GrahamYost, Fred Golan and Neal McDonough
Interviewed for this featurette are GrahamYost, Jon Avnet, Donnie Wahlberg, John Newby, Mykelti Williamson, Frederick K. Keller, Neal McDonough, Nina Garbiras, Laurence Andries, Michelle Ashford, Anne McGrail, Chris Brancato, Jason Gedrick, Laurie Arent, Albert J. Salke, Kevin Dunigan, Clyde Phillips and Fred Golan.
Series creator GrahamYost said he fought against the show's other writers throughout the first season when they insisted "Boomtown," at its heart, is a cop show.
Yost said he went back and looked at first-season scripts and found that cops routinely complimented Ortiz on her police skills.
Yost said Joel's wife will have a presence in the first 10 episodes of the season, but the relationship with Ortiz will be teased again.
Yost, an executive producer of the show with Jon Avnet, whose directing credits include ``Fried Green Tomatoes'' and ``Red Corner.'' ``I think people get the trick pretty quickly.
Yost happened onto his multiple-viewpoint concept two years ago while interviewing World War II veterans for a ``Band of Brothers'' episode he wrote about the Battle of the Bulge.
Yost to incorporate some of the soldier's stories into his script.
Such real-life incidents provided the inspiration for screenwriter GrahamYost, who came across the unusual term from a source who informed him of yet another situation -- a bomber and its nuclear cargo were lost in the Sea of Japan for several years before they could be retrieved.
Yost developed "BROKEN ARROW" with executive producer Dwight Little and producer Mark Gordon at The Mark Gordon Company, for whom he had written "Speed." "BROKEN ARROW" adopts a similar hit-the-ground-running strategy to Fox's summer 1994 smash hit.
Screenwriter GrahamYost made his feature film debut with the critical and box office hit "Speed." The Toronto native took The Second City workshop along with actor Mike Meyers.
Creator GrahamYost ("Speed," "Band of Brothers") recently told New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell on NPR's "The Treatment" that he was influenced and inspired by "Hill Street Blues," a show that arguably did for the cop McDrama what bacon, chili and cheese did for the burger.
The influence of good TV drama can be felt in Yost's ability to transform what could be just another McDrama into a show that feels as passionate and unexpected as most good films, with the benefit of multiple hours to develop characters and story lines over the course of a season.
As Yost said to Mitchell during their NPR interview, "The movie theater was our family church," and this passion clearly comes through in "Boomtown." Surely a show that's as richly cinematic and as well-written as most good movies should get a chance to build an audience in our living rooms.
NBC said Wednesday it has cut a deal with “Speed” screenwriter GrahamYost to develop a limited series exploring the circumstances surrounding the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and spurred the United States to mount a global war on terrorism.
Yost, who also created and executive produced the NBC police drama “Boomtown” and worked on the elaborate HBO miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon” and “Band of Brothers,” acknowledged that he had taken on a highly ambitious project that would take at least a year to research and develop.
Yost said he had been thinking about developing a Sept. 11 drama for some time but hesitated because the timing didn’t feel right.
What sets Yost's concept for "Boomtown" apart from other cop dramas is its overlapping story structure.
This is partly in response to criticism that the current female characters - wives, girlfriends, the paramedic and the reporter - have been given short shift.
And for those who may have wondered, Yost reveals that the show's name comes from a 1986 album called "Boomtown" by David and David (Baerwald and Ricketts).
That Yost and Avnet could convey this in the season opener's slightly less than fifty minutes suggests some of the creative energy that might have galvanized this show.
Yost withholds who she is, without seeming to do so, while the two chat, primarily about whether or not he's a list man, the kind of guy who makes a list of all the exotic things he wants to do before he dies.
Though none of the other male characters yet shows Smith's potential, Yost captures the laconic, disjointed intimacy of male society well, perhaps because he has just left a writing team who encountered no female characters in ten episodes.
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A 20-year-old drug dealer, who aspired to be a comic book illustrator and change his life, is found dead in LA. Meanwhile, Raines is concerned about Charlie's son and is urged to bring him to Samantha since she think that she can help him.
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His best friend and fellow astronaut Luke Graham, played by Don Cheadle, tries to comfort McConnell at the farewell bash by telling McConnell he should be on the trip to Mars.
The computers on the return shuttle are destroyed and Graham is left alone to survive on Mars for more than a year.
Visually, it is spectacular, but the filmmakers felt the need to have Graham explain the entire evolution process to me. As an intelligent audience member, I was offended that they felt it necessary to explain how the human race evolved.
While watching a standard TV drama, even one as remarkable as, say, "The West Wing," the viewer can relax to some extent, secure in the knowledge that he is seeing an objective depiction of some sequence of events.
McDonough, who plays her married lover, concurs that Yost's characters are unusually multilayered for a television series.
One final note: While many critics, and NBC itself, have compared the style of "Boomtown" to Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon," which views a violent crime from multiple perspectives, Yost insists that the 1950 cinematic milestone is not a direct influence on his series.
Written by GrahamYost, the story is about a Los Angeles police officer (Reeves) who has to stop an insane bomber/extortionist (Hopper) who has rigged a bomb on a public transit bus (a Santa Monica Intercity Bus Lines GM TDH-5303 New Look bus, which looks similar to City of Santa Monica Big Blue Bus).
According to GrahamYost, screenwriter Joss Whedon wrote 80% of the script's dialogue, but didn't receive a credit.
Yost also felt in retrospect that the movie should have ended at the airport, and the subway sequence was too much.
USATODAY.com - 'Boomtown' is all in the telling(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Produced by two Hollywood heavy hitters, writer GrahamYost (Speed, Band of Brothers) and director Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes, Uprising), NBC's L.A.-set cop show Boomtown is one of the few new series to have generated anything akin to the preseason excitement that greeted 24 last year.
Graham's an employable writer and I'm an employable director.
Yost says, "We're just happy to be at the party, especially with an odd-duck show."
The DVD Journal: Speed: Five Star Collection(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Perhaps sensing that they had a royal snore-fest on their hands, the DVD's producers commissioned a second, vastly more entertaining commentary track — this one featuring screenwriter GrahamYost and producer Mark Gordon, who are just obnoxious and snarky as hell.
Yost and Gordon are obviously students of the Singer/McQuarrie commentary school: Jokes are cracked and editing errors are revealed and interesting cameos and details and backstories are shamelessly unveiled.
Yost in particular is a bundle of sarcasm, making fun even of the opening-credits font choices — and admitting later that he's really proudest of his work on From the Earth to the Moon and Band of Brothers and all but disavowing the gratuitously violent fare he's written for such films as Broken Arrow.
BURBANK, October 28: Producer GrahamYost, whose credits include Boomtown and Band of Brothers, is on board a new NBC limited s
BURBANK, October 28: Producer GrahamYost, whose credits include Boomtown and Band of Brothers, is on board a new NBC limited series exploring the events leading up to the September 11 attacks.
The fact that the 9/11 report is a best seller is indicative of not only its importance but also the way in which the story of the events is laid out in a clean narrative fashion.
