David N. TwohyFilmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Christened one of the 100 most creative people in Hollywood by popular showbiz magazine Entertainment Weekly, screenwriter/director David Twohy is the man responsible for some of the most compelling science fiction to grace the screen in some time. From his intelligent sci-fi sleeper The Arrival...Read More

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A Perfect Getaway

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich, Kiele Sanchez, Marley Shelton

Synopsis: Honeymooning newlyweds Cliff (Steve Zahn) and Cydney (Milla Jovovich) are hiking an 11-mile trail in Hawaii when they cross paths will ex-military man Nick (Timothy Olyphant), who earns their trust by helping them navigate a particularly treacherous mountain cliff. A few yards later, the trio runs Read More

8/7/09
The Chronicles of Riddick

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Thandie Newton, Judi Dench, Karl Urban, Alexa Davalos

Synopsis: Vin Diesel returns as the nocturnally gifted antihero Riddick in this sequel to the 2000 cult item Pitch Black. Riddick, on the run from the law and evading mercenaries eager to claim the price on his head, seeks refuge on the planet of Helion, only to discover he's walked into a world in chaos. Read More

6/11/04
Below

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Olivia Williams, Holt McCallany, Scott Foley

Synopsis: Reflecting studio executives' taste for material that crosses genres, this film from director David Twohy and co-screenwriter Darren Aronofsky mixes the war movie and supernatural thriller genres. After they rescue a trio of survivors that includes a nurse, Claire Page (Olivia Williams), from a Read More

10/11/02
Impostor

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tony Shalhoub, Tim Guinee, Mekhi Phifer

Synopsis: This long-delayed science fiction thriller from director Gary Fleder was actually filmed prior to his box-office hit Don't Say a Word (2001), which preceded it in theaters by several months. Based on a 1953 short story by Philip K. Dick, the film shares that schizophrenic author's long-running Read More

1/4/01
Pitch Black

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Synopsis: In this science fiction thriller, a spaceship is transporting a disparate group of people to a far-away galactic outpost called New Mecca. Mechanical failures cause the craft to crash-land on an abandoned planet that has three suns and no night. The only member of the crew to survive is junior Read More

2/18/00
G.I. Jane

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: Ridley Scott directed this flawed but involving study of Lt. Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore), a Navy topographic analyst who is chosen as a test case for the presence of women in combat. Aware that she is making history and knowing that 60% of all male trainees will fail the rigorous training, Lt. Read More

1997
The Arrival

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Ron Silver, Lindsay Crouse, Teri Polo, Richard Schiff

Synopsis: A shy radio telescope operator named Zane Ziminski (Charlie Sheen) picks up a series of regular signals coming from space -- and deliberately pointed toward Earth. Convinced that he has discovered alien transmissions, Ziminski is first chastised and then fired by his boss (Ron Silver). Obsessed Read More

1996
Waterworld

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: Widely considered to be an expensive failure, Waterworld was an epic vehicle for Kevin Costner, who starred in and co-produced the film, with his friend Kevin Reynolds as director. It was based on a 1986 screenplay by Peter Rader and cost an estimated $235 million, more than any film in history up Read More

1995
Last Gasp

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, an evil developer kills a Mexican Indian and finds himself possessed by the dead man's spirit. Though set in Mexico and Boone County, PA, the film was actually shot in Romania. The story begins as avaricious Leslie Chase is overseeing the construction of a high-rise Read More

1995
Terminal Velocity

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald, Gary Bullock

Synopsis: Party-hard skydiving teacher Ditch Brodie (Charlie Sheen) has a knack for getting himself into trouble, but his booze-babes-and-planes shenanigans hardly prepare him for an international plot that pits Brodie and a mysterious KGB agent against a post-Cold War Russian villain called Kerr (Chris Read More

1994
The Fugitive

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Joe Pantoliano, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: This 1993 box-office smash partly adheres to the 1960s TV series on which it is based and partly goes off on several tangents of its own. Harrison Ford stars as Dr. Richard Kimble, convicted of murdering his wife. While being transferred to prison by bus, Kimble is involved in a spectacular Read More

1993
Alien ³

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover

Synopsis: Crash landing on a barren penal-colony planet with an unwelcomed visitor in tow, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) contends with a group of hardened convicts while using nothing but her wits to battle a terrifying new breed of alien. The sole survivor of her crashed escape pod, Ripley is rescued from the Read More

5/22/92
Disaster in Time

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Ariana Richards, Marilyn Lightstone, Emilia Crow, Jim Haynie

Synopsis: An innkeeper in a small Midwestern town is concerned about strange boarders, whom he believes are visitors from the future. He struggles to save his daughter from being taken by the aliens and to keep the town from being destroyed. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Warlock

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard E. Grant, Julian Sands, Lori Singer, Kevin O'Brien

Synopsis: Julian Sands oozes maleficence as a warlock of the 1600s cast forth to 1980s Los Angeles, where he continues to work his deviltry. The story begins in 1691 Boston when a warlock is condemned to die. Calling for Satan's help, the warlock is sent forward in time to contemporary Los Angeles, where he Read More

1/11/91
Critters 2: The Main Course

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Scott Grimes, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Don Opper, Barry Corbin, Tom Hodges

Synopsis: Critters 2: The Main Course is the sequel to the highly enjoyable horror comedy Critters. The people of the Kansas town first menaced by the little, furry creatures find that they are not yet safe as they are again assaulted when the creatures reproduce. Charlie (Don Opper) is joined by Lee (Roxanne Kernohan Read More

4/29/88