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Khouri is a screenwriter, director, producer, lecturer, and non-fiction author. She also worked as an actress, lecturer, and waiter in Nashville. While working for a company that made commercials and music videos, she began writing Thelma & Louise, her first produced screenplay.
Feb 10, 2012 · Callie Khouri's first screenplay came from deep within: she knew what could happen to two women in a car—when some guy pushed them too far.
- IT WAS CALLIE KHOURI’S FIRST SCREENPLAY. Intrigued by the idea of “women outlaws,” the Kentucky-raised Khouri spent six months writing Thelma & Louise in 1988 while producing rock videos for artists like Alice Cooper.
- KHOURI HAD DOUBTS ABOUT RIDLEY SCOTT DIRECTING. Scott, who was then mostly known for his sci-fi action movies like Blade Runner and Alien, allayed her concerns upon their first meeting.
- GEORGE CLOONEY AUDITIONED FIVE TIMES TO PLAY J.D. Clooney was on the short list for the role that eventually went to Brad Pitt, and became his big break.
- BRAD PITT WAS PAID $6,000 FOR HIS WORK IN THE FILM. That was in 1991. Just five years later, he earned $10 million for his work in Barry Levinson's Sleepers.
Syd Field talks with Callie Khouri on how she came up with and developed the characters in her hit screenplay, Thelma & Louise.
Jul 22, 2011 · She later studied at the Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in Los Angeles, and her first jobs in the industry were working in production and making music videos. Thelma & Louise was her first major screenplay.
Jan 2, 2017 · In Khouri’s script, Thelma (Geena Davis), a housewife trapped into a marriage that is indifferent at best and abusive at worst, and Louise (Susan Sarandon), a waitress with a shaky past, some emotional scars that refuse to heal and a non-committed boyfriend, band together for what is intended to be a weekend of female bonding, fun and games.
Callie Khouri’s original screenplay, which won the 1991 Academy Award, reinvented both the buddy film and the road movie as it told the story of its eponymous heroines, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, respectively, who find themselves on the run across the American desert.
