Film Career
Moore was an executive producer of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Moore spent several years seeking the movie rights to the seven novels by C. S. Lewis which comprise the Narnia books. Moore's persistence proved critical for Walden Media in winning the rights; an obituary in Variety called his role "instrumental". As the New York Times reported in 2005: "At the beginning of 2001, Perry Moore embarked on a forbidding quest. Mr. Moore, an executive with an untested movie company called Walden Media, dispatched an impassioned letter to the chief executive of the C. S. Lewis Company, seeking movie rights to the much-loved Chronicles of Narnia fantasy novels." After a meeting of executives, a handshake sealed the deal for the rights. Moore continued his role as executive producer with Prince Caspian (2008) and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010).
He co-wrote and co-directed (with life partner Hunter Hill) the 2008 film Lake City, a drama that tells the story of a mother (Sissy Spacek) and son (Troy Garity) who reunite under desperate circumstances years after a family tragedy drove them apart. He also co-produced (again with Hill) a Spike Jonze-directed 2010 documentary (Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak) about children's book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.
In early 2010, Moore said he and Hill were planning to co-direct a feature film to star actress Julianne Moore. The night before he died, Moore told his father that he had just secured financing for a fourth Narnia movie based on the book The Magician's Nephew.
Read more about this topic: Perry Moore
Famous quotes containing the words film and/or career:
“Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It’s another part of the twentieth-century mind. It’s the world seen from inside. We’ve come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film.... You have to ask yourself if there’s anything about us more important than the fact that we’re constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“From a hasty glance through the various tests I figure it out that I would be classified in Group B, indicating “Low Average Ability,” reserved usually for those just learning to speak the English Language and preparing for a career of holding a spike while another man hits it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)