Steve Kloves
Steve Kloves is known for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
Biography
Stephen Keith Kloves (born March 18, 1960) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He wrote and directed the film The Fabulous Baker Boys and is mainly known for his screenplay adaptations of novels, especially for all but one of the Harry Potter films (the exception being The Order of the Phoenix) and for Wonder Boys, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Kloves, born in Austin, Texas, grew up in Sunnyvale, California, where he graduated from Fremont High School. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, but dropped out when he was not admitted into the film school in his third year.
As an unpaid intern for a Hollywood agent, he gained attention for a screenplay he wrote called Swings. This led to a meeting where he successfully pitched Racing with the Moon (1984).
His first experience with professional screenwriting left him wanting more interaction with the actors so that the characters would stay true to his vision. Kloves wrote The Fabulous Baker Boys and also intended it to be his directorial debut. After years of trying to sell the project in Hollywood, the film finally got off the ground and was released in 1989. The Fabulous Baker Boys did reasonably well and was critically acclaimed, but his next shot as writer/director for Flesh and Bone in 1993 fared poorly at the box office. Kloves then stopped writing for three years.
Realising that he had to return to writing to support his family, he began adapting Michael Chabon's novel Wonder Boys into a screenplay. Kloves was offered the chance to direct, but he declined, preferring to direct only his own original work. This was his first try at adapting another work to film. His screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award after the film's release in 2000.
Warner Bros. sent Kloves a list of novels that the company was considering adapting as films. The listing included the first Harry Potter novel, which intrigued him despite his usual indifference to these catalogs. He went on to write the screenplays for the first four films in the series. However, he turned down writing the fifth film, stating that "The fourth film, Goblet of Fire, was really hard to do. I wrote on it for two years. But it’s not that simple, and I don't know that I'll ever fully understand why I didn't do it." After Michael Goldenberg wrote the screenplay for the fifth film, Kloves then returned to write the sixth, seventh, and eighth installments.
In 2011, Kloves was attached to work on a film adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Since 2016, Kloves produced the Fantastic Beasts films, a spinoff prequel series to the main Harry Potter series. Kloves co-wrote the third installment with J.K. Rowling.
Kloves produced the Andy Serkis-directed movie, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. His daughter, Callie, wrote the screenplay.
Kloves is now set to write the screenplay for the film adaptation of T. J. Newman's novel Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 for Warner Bros.
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Questions about Steve Kloves
How many Steve Kloves films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 18 films with Steve Kloves, from 1984 to 2024.
What is the best rated Steve Kloves film?
The best rated Steve Kloves film in the catalogue is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), rated 8.1.
What was the first Steve Kloves film?
The first Steve Kloves film in the catalogue is Racing with the Moon, from 1984.
Who has Steve Kloves worked with the most?
In the catalogue, Steve Kloves shares the most credits with David Heyman (10 films), Alan Rickman (7 films) and Daniel Radcliffe (7 films).
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Known for
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7.9 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
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7.7 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
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8.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
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8.0 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
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7.8 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
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7.7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
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7.7 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
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6.8 The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
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7.3 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016
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6.8 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018
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6.6 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
2022
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6.5 Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018
Full filmography
18 films — 18 in the catalogue
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A Look Through His Lens
2024 · Self
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6.0 Capturing the Stone: A Conversation with the Filmmakers
2002
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6.6
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
2022
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6.5
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018
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6.8
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018
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7.3
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016
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6.8
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
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8.1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
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7.7
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
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7.7
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
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7.8
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
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8.0
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
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7.7
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
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7.9
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
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6.8 Wonder Boys
2000
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5.9 Flesh and Bone
1993
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6.6 The Fabulous Baker Boys
1989
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6.3 Racing with the Moon
1984
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