Police said he died of natural causes in his Hollywood Hills home. He said that police arrived at him at 4:50 pm and he was already pronounced dead. He took home a prize for Best Adapted Screenplay (Kim Basinger also won Best Supporting Actress). The Canadian film, on which he also served as an associate producer, starred Elliott Gould as a nebbish teller who engages in a battle of wits with a bank thief (Christopher Plummer). He proved himself particularly adept at thrillers, with 1992’s evil nanny drama The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and 1994’s Meryl Streep river rafting of doom flick The River Wild.
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“So sad to lose Curtis Hanson”, Pearce, 48, wrote alongside of black and white snapshot of him and the late director on the L.A. Confidential set.
Curtis Hanson, who won an Oscar for LA Confidential and directed 8 Mile starring Eminem, has died. Michael Apted finished the 2012 movie, which now stands as Hanson’s last. Many people are remembering the great works of art that Curtis Hanson has made during his productive and challenging career.
In early 2000, the filmmaker tipped off the new millennium with his lovable adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Wonder Boys, starring Michael Douglas and Robert Downey, Jr., in addition to his striking, quasi-Eminem biopic two years later with 8 Mile.
The cinema and also the hip-hop world are in mourning today for the man who brought Eminem to the big screen in the 2002 film 8 Mile. Hanson was 71-years old.
Eminem remembers the Oscar victor fondly saying, “Curtis Hanson believed in me and our insane idea to make a rap battle movie set in Detroit”.
Eminem, star of 8 Mile, said in a statement, “Curtis Hanson believed in me and our insane idea to make a rap battle movie set in Detroit”.
Hanson is survived by his mother Beverly June Hanson, his brother Woody, his longtime partner Rebecca Yeldham, and their son Rio.
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Hanson would go on to helm 1983’s Losin’ It – Tom Cruise’s first starring role – and the more critically hailed suspense film Bad Influence featuring James Spader and Rob Lowe.
