John Hodge

John Hodge born 1964 is a Scottish screenwriter and dramatist who adapted Irvine Welshs novel Trainspotting into the script for the film of the same title His first play Collaborators won the 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Play His films include Shallow Grave 1994 Trainspotting 1996 A Life Less Ordinary 1997 The Beach 2000 The Final Curtain 2002 and the short film Alien Love Triangle 2002 Born and raised in Glasgow Scotland Hodge comes from a family of doctors and carried on the tradition by studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh He was the writer of the annual Medics Musical in 1988 Hodge started writing screenplays after meeting producer Andrew Macdonald at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1991 He moved to London after writing Shallow Grave and gave up medicine to concentrate on writing His films include Shallow Grave 1994 Trainspotting 1996 A Life Less Ordinary 1997 The Beach 2000 The Final Curtain 2002 and the short film Alien Love Triangle 2002 Most of his films are directed by Danny Boyle Shallow Grave Trainspotting and A Life Less Ordinary all starred Ewan McGregor He has three children named Dorothy Isobell and Dillon Source Article John Hodge screenwriter from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30