Andrew Kevin Walker
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Andrew Kevin Walker (born August 14, 1964 in Altoona, Pennsylvania) is an American screenwriter. He is best known for the films 8MM, Sleepy Hollow, Se7en (for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay), and the short movie for the BMW Films' Ambush, that was directed by John Frankenheimer. He also did uncredited re-writes of The Game, Fight Club and Event Horizon.
Walker is a graduate of Mechanicsburg Senior High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Penn State University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Video. He moved to Los Angeles after graduation and worked at Tower Records for three years while writing the screenplay to Se7en. He gave the finished screenplay to David Koepp, who gave it to executives at New Line Cinema, who ended up buying the rights. Walker enjoys working with director David Fincher and has frequently partnered up with the director.
Most recently, he wrote the screenplay for The Wolf Man, a remake of the Universal Studios classic. The remake, which is directed by Mark Romanek and stars Benicio Del Toro in the title role, will be released in summer 2008.