Paul Guay's movies have grossed over half a billion dollars.He conceived and co-wrote Liar Liar (1997), at the time of its release the sixth-highest-grossing comedy in history, the fourth-highest ...Show More
Paul Guay's movies have grossed over half a billion dollars.He conceived and co-wrote Liar Liar (1997), at the time of its release the sixth-highest-grossing comedy in history, the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year, the second-highest-grossing film of Jim Carrey's career, and Imagine's highest-grossing film ever.The screenplay received an Honorable Mention (along with "Fargo," "Million Dollar Baby," "The Full Monty" and "Catch Me If You Can") in Scr(i)pt magazine's list of the Best Scripts of the Past 10 Years.Guay co-wrote The Little Rascals (1994), Universal's second-highest-grossing film of the year;Co-wrote Heartbreakers (2001), starring Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman and Jason Lee, which opened #1 at the box office, and the rights to which he co-licensed to MGM for production as a stage musical;Wrote "On a Pale Horse" for Disney and Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, based on Book One of the eight-volume "Incarnations of Immortality" series by New York Times-bestselling author Piers Anthony; andRecently co-wrote "The Christmas Spirit," a high-concept comedy fantasy.Guay also polished a draft of "The NeverEnding Story" aka The NeverEnding Story (1984), which grossed $125 million worldwide and spawned two sequels, and co-polished Mousehunt (1997), the highest-grossing of DreamWorks' first five films.He is a former consultant to World Wrestling Entertainment.As an actor, Guay can be seen playing a lying tailor in "Heroes of the Writers Strike," the internet comedy short;Plays a Texas john in a Nevada whorehouse run by "Star Trek"'s Nichelle Nichols in the feature Lady Magdalene's (2008);Is a talking head in Dreams on Spec (2007), the feature documentary that interviews such writers as James L. Brooks, Nora Ephron, Gary Ross and Carrie Fisher;Is a series regular in Shrinking Violet (2001), a sample pilot for a half-hour dramedy about a bold female psychiatrist, which he also co-created, co-wrote and executive produced; andIs a series lead playing multiple roles in "Moose," a sample pilot for a half-hour sketch-comedy and comedy-song series, which he also co-created, co-wrote and executive produced.Guay has appeared in three dozen plays, including Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story" and "The Sandbox", Lionel Bart's "Oliver!" (two roles), Georges Feydeau's "A Flea in Her Ear" (two roles), Rudolf Friml's "The Vagabond King", Peter Shaffer's "Equus" and "Black Comedy", William Shakespeare's "Richard III", Sam Shepard's "The Holy Ghostly", Neil Simon's "The Gingerbread Lady" and "Bleacher Bums" (three roles), Los Angeles' longest-running comedy. He acted opposite George C. Wolfe (Tony Award winner and artistic director of the New York Public Theatre) in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and was directed by Wolfe in an award-winning production of Dick Barnes' "Furkeisar on Turtle Island" (two roles).Guay graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. in English and philosophy, figuring if the career in writing didn't work out, he always had philosophy to fall back on. He was the keynote speaker at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's 2001 Nebula Awards ceremony.Guay has begun a new business as a Script Consultant. Hide
