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Mike Rich
Highest Rated: 84% The Rookie (2002)
Lowest Rated: 35% Radio (2003)
Birthday: Not Available
Birthplace: Not Available
Ever since he won the Academy of Motion Picture Art & Sciences' Nicholl Fellowship, Mike Rich has been one of the most sought after screenwriters in Hollywood. Rich became a fellow in 1998 with his first-ever writing effort, "Finding Forrester" (2000). A week after winning the fellowship, Columbia Pictures bought the script for six figures-a rare thing to happen to a tyro scribe (Ironically, Columbia passed on the script six months earlier-before it was a Nicholl winner.) A week after the sale, famed actor Sean Connery signed on to play William Forrester, a one-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist-turned-recluse, a la J.D. Salinger. In the blink of an eye, Rich went from a Portland radio news reporter to one of the hottest writers in the business. And with the sudden change, Rich began to get out of life what he wanted: to tell stories for a living.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Owl's Nest | Tony (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 69% | 69% | Cars 3 | Screenwriter | $152.9M | 2017 |
| 64% | 76% | Secretariat |
Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$59.7M | 2010 |
| 37% | 76% | The Nativity Story | Writer | $37.6M | 2006 |
| 73% | 79% | Eight Below | Writer | $81.6M | 2006 |
| 35% | 79% | Radio | Screenwriter | $52.3M | 2003 |
| 84% | 70% | The Rookie | Writer | - | 2002 |
| 74% | 79% | Finding Forrester | Writer | $51.8M | 2000 |