Kelly Masterson

Writing

Kelly Masterson

Born January 1, 1950 · United States (age 76)

Kelly Masterson is an American playwright and screenwriter best known for writing Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and adapting the screenplay for Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer.

Known For

SnowpiercerSnowpiercer · 2013
Snowpiercer
6.92013
MovieActionScience Fiction
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Before the Devil Knows You're DeadBefore the Devil Knows You're Dead · 2007
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
7.12007
MovieCrimeDrama
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Good PeopleGood People · 2014
Good People
5.52014
MovieThrillerCrime
Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Tom's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them is dead, and he's left behind a stash of cash—$400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary—the thief who stole it—and that's when very bad things start happening to good people.
Killing KennedyKilling Kennedy · 2013
Killing Kennedy
5.82013
MovieDrama
Drama documentary based on Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's 2012 non-fiction book "Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot". It follows the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald from the winter 1959-1960 to those fatal days in Dallas in November 1963, when they both died within two days after each other and were buried on the same day - John F. Kennedy in a state funeral in Washington D.C., broadcast live both to Europe and the Pacific, while Oswald was buried in Forth Worth at a small funeral where the attending reporters were asked to act as pallbearers.
SnowpiercerSnowpiercer · 2020
Snowpiercer
7.42020
SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.

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