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Josh Olson is an American screenwriter and director. Olson began his career working as a production assistant in the art department on the 1987 film Masters of the Universe. In 2006, he was nominated for the British Academy Award, the Writer's Guild Award, the USC Scripter Award and the Academy Award for his adapted screenplay for A History of Violence.
In 2006, Olson was invited by author Harlan Ellison to collaborate with Ellison on an adaptation of the author's short story "The Discarded" for ABC's series, "Masters of Science Fiction." The episode stars Brian Dennehy and John Hurt, and was directed by Jonathan Frakes, and was the highest rated episode of the series. Olson is also one of the writers of a segment of the six-story "Batmanime," Gotham Knight, along with David Goyer, Brian Azzarello and others, contributing the script for "Have I Got A Story For You." He and D. B. Weiss worked on Peter Jackson's film based on the Halo video game series, but the project was later cancelled.
Sam Peckinpah's blood-flecked classic was a boxoffice disaster in its Vietnam-era day, but has come to be recognized as one of the all-time greats, a brilliant portrait of the end of an era of tough S.O.Bs made by...well, a tough S.O.B. This pan-and-scan trailer is identical to the ones supplied to theaters in 1969. http://www.trailersfromhell.com
Director Abel Ferrara followed up his debut film, The Driller Killer, with this mini-budget cult classic. A gritty urban nightmare set in a hellish New York where a mute seamstress obsessively avenges her rapists in a series of gruesome tableaus that Charles Bronson could only envy. As always, find more great cinematic classics at http://www.trailersfromhell.com ABOUT TRAILERS FROM HELL: TFH is the premier showcase for a breathtakingly eclectic assortment of trailers from classic era films both in their original form and punctuated with informative and amusing commentary by contemporary filmmakers. Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/trailersfromhel Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/trailersfromhell
The Coen Bros.' stylized hybrid of '30s prohibition gangster sagas and '40s noir films was the Boardwalk Empire of its day. Dashiell Hammett is once again a prime inspiration for the mayhem, which provides Albert Finney and JohnTurturro with memorable turns. http://www.trailersfromhell.com
Hitchcock's first London-based production since Stage Fright is also one of his most surprisingly modern. A recent screening in Hollywood as part of Edgar Wright's "The Wright Stuff" film series delighted a packed house of 20-somethings who had never been exposed to it before. The dinner scenes between Vivien Merchant and chief inspector Alec McCowan killed. http://www.trailersfromhell.com
As always, find more great cinematic treasures, flops, follies, masterpieces and/or disasters at http://www.trailersfromhell.com ABOUT TRAILERS FROM HELL: TFH is the premier showcase for a breathtakingly eclectic assortment of trailers from classic era films both in their original form and punctuated with informative and amusing commentary by contemporary filmmakers. Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/trailersfromhel Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/trailersfromhell
This‚ elaborate second remake of the French classic Wages of Fear (following Violent Road, a 1958 Howard W. Koch B-picture starring Brian Keith) suffered at the boxoffice from its supernatural-sounding title (especially coming from the director of The Exorcist), which obscured its origins as a nail-biting suspense classic.‚ Two tough, grueling hours‚ that grab you by the throat and won't let go. http://www.trailersfromhell.com
TV cartoon characters Skeletor, He-Man, Beast Man and Evil-lyn spring to live action life in a broken tentpole from the pinchpennies at The Cannon Group. Josh Olson was there and gives us a breathtaking on-set report. http://www.trailersfromhell.com
Savior, please take my hand
I work so hard, I live so fast
This life begins, and then it ends
And I do the best that I can, but I don't know how long
it'll last
I try to be so tough
But I'm just not strong enough
I can't do this along, God I need You to hold on to me
I try to be good enough
But I'm nothing without Your love
Savior, please keep saving me
Savior, please help me stand
I fall so hard, I fade so fast
Will You begin right where I end
And be the God of all I am because You're all I have
Hallelujah
Everything You are to me
Is everything I'll ever need
And I am learning to believe
That I don't have to prove a thing