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| 1 | In 2001, Ted Griffin pitched his story for Rumor Has It... (2005) to George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh, who agreed to produce it for him. By May 2003, Griffin had completed his script and sold it to Warner Bros., while attached to make his directorial debut. It was only the sixth original screenplay that Griffin had sold, and as of 2016, he hasn't sold an original script since. |
| 2 | During college, Griffin wrote two scripts, which he says were both "instantly shelved and bad." After graduation, he moved out to Los Angeles to pursue his screenwriting career. He wrote a third script, while taking odd jobs in construction (faxing in a trailer on the job site) and working at a laundry mat in West Hollywood, across from the famous restaurant, Chasen's. His fourth script he wrote, was Ravenous (1999), which he says was the first time he felt like a real writer. The fifth and sixth scripts he wrote, were Best Laid Plans (1999) and Beached. All three scripts were floating around Hollywood for a couple of years before they eventually sold. Through sleeping around and through a friend of a friend, Griffin finally hooked up with an agent, when he signed with Steve Rabineau of ICM in 1996. |
| 3 | During the filming of Ted Griffin's directorial debut Rumor Has It... (2005), rumors spread across the internet that Kevin Costner was the reason for Griffin getting fired. Reports stated that Costner didn't approve of the first-time directors sense of lighting when he came to setting up shots and he clashed with Griffin. Costner reportedly told producer Paula Weinstein that "This movie'll take a year to shoot if you don't get rid of Ted." Ted is said to have firmly told Costner to return to his trailer, but Costner screamed "I will not! Not until you change the lighting set-up like I told you." This however, contradicts Griffin's impression of the production. He states that things were going (in his opinion) smoothly and he was replaced without a clear reason. Costner's reps denied the story about his causing Griffin getting fired. Jennifer Aniston was then rumored to be unhappy with Griffin as director and she threatened to leave the movie. She has been quoted as saying that Rumor Has It... (2005) was "the worst film, the worst experience" of her career. Claims were also made that Aniston didn't think the dailies were funny enough. What is certain about the production, is that there were troubles from day one. Griffin clashed with DP Edward Lachman from the start, and after two weeks of shooting, Griffin had had enough and fired him. During the next week of shooting, WB executives considered pulling the plug on the project all together, and went to the set of Ocean's Twelve (2004) to speak with executive producers George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh. It was apparent that a change had to be made, and Soderbergh ultimately made the final decision to relieve Griffin of his directing duties after three weeks. |
| 4 | He lives in a New York City penthouse apartment with his wife Sutton Foster. |
| 5 | Beginning in pre-production Ted Griffin was hired to punch up the script for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). He continued to work on the film throughout the production and even helped punch up the dialogue in post, during the voice-over sessions. Word in Hollywood is that Griffin did a lot of the writing that ended up on-screen. |
| 6 | According to Celebrity Net Worth, Ted Griffin has an estimated net worth of $16 million, as of 2016. |
| 7 | Ted Griffin did an uncredited production polish to the script for Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). |
| 8 | Ted Griffin was originally attached to make his directorial debut with Up in the Air (2009). Griffin worked with his brother Nicholas Griffin on revising the Sheldon Turner screenplay for a couple of years, but the project stalled and Griffin moved on to directing his own original script Rumor Has It... (2005). A revised draft of the script, dated September 20, 2005 is credited to Nicholas Griffin alone. However, various trades reported that Ted and Nick were commissioned together to work on the script by Ivan Reitman when Turner was fired from the project. |
| 9 | Ted Griffin was initially hired to write the script for Ocean's Twelve (2004), as was stated in multiple trades. Whether he even started writing a draft or not, is unknown, but Griffin ultimately decided to pass on the job. The producers instead turned to the spec script "Honor Among Thieves" by George Nolfi and had it rewritten into the sequel. |
| 10 | Brother-in-law of Hunter Foster and Jennifer Cody. |
| 11 | Ted Griffin did an uncredited production polish on the script for Fun with Dick and Jane (2005). |
| 12 | Ted Griffin broke into Hollywood as a screenwriter in October 1996, when his agent, Steve Rabineau of ICM, sold three of his spec scripts in one week. He sold Ravenous (1999), Beached and Best Laid Plans (1999) to Fox 2000 Pictures in deals worth 'mid-six figures' each. In January 1997, Rabineau sold Griffin's fourth spec script, a thriller about escaped slaves on the run with a white, wrongly accused convict titled "Mobile". Fox 2000 Pictures bought it for 'mid-six figures'. |
| 13 | Ted Griffin did an uncredited rewrite of the Marc Klein screenplay for A Good Year (2006). He was then rewritten by Jez Butterworth and Tom Butterworth. The screenplay was based on the Peter Mayle novel. |
| 14 | Ted Griffin and his brother Nicholas Griffin worked with director James Mangold on script revisions during production of Knight and Day (2010) without credit. |
| 15 | Ted Griffin was replaced as director after three weeks of shooting, of his directorial debut Rumor Has It... (2005). Rob Reiner was hired to take his place, and made script and casting changes during the brief transition period. All of Griffin's work was reportedly scrapped. This caused the budget to swell from $40 million to as much as $70 million. |
| 16 | In February 1998, Ted Griffin and writing partner Sean Bailey sold their serial killer thriller spec script Solace (2015) to Fox 2000 Pictures for an undisclosed 'six-figure' deal. The script was put into turnaround a few years later and was purchased by New Line Cinema for 'seven figures' in April 2001. New Line intended on developing it as a sequel to Se7en (1995). 'Morgan Freeman' was said to have been offered a career high salary to reprise his role in the proposed sequel, however director David Fincher talked him out of it. The script languished in development for 15 years at two different studios, before finally going into production in 2013. The film then sat on the shelf in post-production for nearly two years, before finally getting released internationally beginning in 2015. It will finally get a North American release in December 2016, with a limited theatrical run, while also streaming on the internet. It has taken nearly 19 years for this project to get released in the U.S., since the script originally was sold. |
| 17 | Brother of Nicholas Griffin. |
| 18 | He graduated from Colgate University in 1993 with a degree in English. |
| 19 | Grandson of William A. Seiter and Marian Nixon. |
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