Joseph Minion

Joseph Minion
Born	1957 (age 63–64) New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Rutgers University Columbia University
Occupation	Film producer, Screenwriter, Film director

Joseph Minion (born 1957) is an American screenwriter, best known for his screenplay for the 1985 film After Hours, which was later revealed to have been partially plagiarized.^[1]

Early life[]

Born in New Jersey in 1957, Minion briefly attended NYU Film School before finishing his studies at Columbia University, then renowned for its screenwriting program. In 1984, Minion's script for After Hours was optioned by Griffin Dunne and Amy Robinson. Robinson sent Minion's screenplay to Scorsese, whose Last Temptation of Christ had recently fallen through; production on After Hours started shortly afterward. Later, it surfaced that Minion had plagiarized portions of the story of After Hours from a 1982 Joe Frank NPR Playhouse monologue titled, "Lies". Frank sued and settled for an undisclosed sum.^[1]

As a director, Minion made his debut for producer Roger Corman with 1987's Daddy's Boys, said to have been thrown together at the last minute to make use of standing sets for Big Bad Mama II. His last outing as director was for another low-budget feature, Trafficking (1999).

Personal life[]

He lives in New York and his studio is in East Orange, N.J. Throughout his career he has taught film and screenwriting at School of Visual Arts, USC, The North Carolina School of Arts, Long Island University and the New York University School of Continuing Education.

References[]

External links[]

• Joseph Minion at IMDb