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Roger Avary Sentenced to One Year in Jail

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Academy Award screenwriter Roger Avary was sentenced on Tuesday to one year in jail for a fatal traffic accident in Southern California that occurred 2008.   Avary plead guilty in August to the charges of gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving.   He also faces five years of probation.   Authorities claim Avary was driving in excess of 110 miles per hour when he slammed into a telephone pole killing one of the passengers in the vehicle Avary was driving.

Avary was gearing up to write ‘Silent Hill 2,’ the sequel to the 2006 film which he also wrote.   Avary collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Pulp Fiction,’ the latter of which Avary won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay along with Tarantino.   He also co-wrote the 2007, Robert Zemeckis adaptation of ‘Beowulf.’   Avary also directed the 1994 film, ‘Killing Zoe,’ and the 2002 adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel,   ‘The Rules of Attraction.’

There is no word yet on whether this will effect pre-production on ‘Silent Hill 2,’ or if producer Samuel Hadida will switch screenwriters to get production moving.