Fran Walsh Filmography

Occupation:: Associate Producer, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Born in Wellington, New Zealand, screenwriter Frances (Fran) Walsh has a parallel career to that of her longtime partner, director Peter Jackson. The two met in 1987, during post-production for the gross-out cult classic Bad Taste. Previous to that, she was a musician and scriptwriter for...Read More

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The Hobbit 2

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: MGM and New Line Cinema presents a tale of Middle-earth never seen before with this fantasy adventure that bridges the gap between The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh executive produce the production, which will shoot simultaneously with The Hobbit. Guillermo del Toro Read More

1/1/12
The Hobbit

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The creative team behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy return to Middle-earth with this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic precursor The Hobbit. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh executive produce the New Line Cinema/MGM joint production, to be shot simultaneously with a sequel film culled from Read More

1/1/11
The Lovely Bones

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Imperioli

Synopsis: Visionary Heavenly Creatures director Peter Jackson teams with longtime collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens to adapt author Alice Sebold's best-selling novel concerning a murdered young girl who watches from heaven as her family attempts to cope with their devastating loss, and tracks her Read More

1/1/09
King Kong

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis

Synopsis: One of the greatest adventure stories in Hollywood history gets a new interpretation in this action drama from Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson. In the early 1930's, Carl Denham (Jack Black) is a daring filmmaker and adventurer who has gained a reputation for his pictures documenting Read More

12/14/05
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom

Synopsis: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings Peter Jackson's mammoth adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic to a close in suitably epic fashion. Instead of starting just where the previous film left off, however, it goes far back in time to the moment the tormented creature Gollum first Read More

12/17/03
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett

Synopsis: The second film in Peter Jackson's series of screen adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's internationally popular Lord of The Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers literally begins where The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ended, with the Fellowship splitting into three Read More

12/18/02
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean

Synopsis: New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author J.R.R. Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit resident of the medieval "Middle-earth" who Read More

12/19/01
The Frighteners

Crew: Associate Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn't use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Read More

1996