Rowan Joffe may be in Toronto to premiere (and hopefully sell) his directing debut Brighton Rock , but the awkward afterglow of this month’s box-office triumph The American — which Joffe adapted from Martin Booth’s novel A Very Private Gentleman — followed the screenwriter north to TIFF. That’s where I caught up with him to talk over the film’s box-office success, the split personality of its moodiness and its marketing, and what Tony Gilroy’s DVD extras taught him about writing for George Clooney.
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Screenwriter Rowan Joffe on the American He Wrote — and the One You Saw
