X-Nico

6 unusual facts about James Woods


John Steakley

In 1998, John Carpenter directed a screen adaptation of Vampire$ (retitled Vampires), which starred James Woods as the leader of a Catholic Church-sanctioned team of vampire hunters.

Joshua Then and Now

Richler adapted it into the feature film Joshua Then and Now, starring James Woods, Alan Arkin, and Gabrielle Lazure; directed by Ted Kotcheff who had previously directed Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

Richard Levinson

In tribute to Levinson, Link wrote the script for the 1991 TV film The Boys, starring James Woods and John Lithgow.

Robert Kimmel Smith

The latter was made into a 1994 television movie of the same name, starring James Woods and Anne Archer.

Vibe Hotel

Many TV and film scenes have been shot at the Vibe Hotel including a recent TV episode of “Shark” starring James Woods.

William Link

In 1991, in tribute to Levinson, he wrote the script for the 1991 TV film The Boys, starring James Woods and John Lithgow.


Equity Funding

The Billion Dollar Bubble - the Equity Funding scandal retold in the form of a movie starring James Woods in the role of the actuary

Kelle Kerr

She also works in front of the cameras, having appeared in The Boost, with James Woods and Sean Young, as well as stints on television, such as her appearances on the Law & Order episodes, 'Pride', and 'By Hooker, By Crook'.

Out of the Past

Out of the Past was remade as Against All Odds (1984) with Rachel Ward in the Greer role, Jeff Bridges filling in for Mitchum, and James Woods as a variation of Kirk Douglas' villain, with Jane Greer as the mother of her original character in Out of the Past and Richard Widmark in a supporting role.

Richard Friedenberg

He wrote the screenplay for A River Runs Through It (1992), starring Brad Pitt, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and the screenplay for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television film Promise (1986), starring James Garner and James Woods, for which he won an Emmy Award.


see also

I Never Met the Dead Man

Two women talking over lunch suggests that he is watching the television station Lifetime, two elderly people out walking reminds him of CBS, a group of African Americans playing basketball suggests UPN, and James Woods High School reminds him of Beverly Hills, 90210.