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John Fusco is an American screenwriter born in Waterbury, Connecticut. His screenplays include ''Crossroads'', ''Young Guns'', ''Young Guns II'', ''Thunderheart'', ''Hidalgo'', and the Oscar-nominated'' Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron''. Fusco is also a martial artist and a prose fiction writer. == Career == John Fusco was raised in the small town of Prospect, Connecticut, leaving home and high school early to travel the American south as a blues musician and saw mill laborer. He would later attend and graduate from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where his writing mentors were Waldo Salt and Ring Lardner, Jr. He won back-to-back honors in national screenwriting competitions his junior and senior year, winning the top prize of a Nissan Sentra and a contract with the William Morris Agency. While best known for Western and Native American themed films, Fusco recently drew on his lifelong background in martial arts to write ''The Forbidden Kingdom'', starring Jet Li and Jackie Chan. The movie opened #1 at the box office on April 18, 2008 and broke opening day box office records in China. Fusco first studied Martial Arts at age 12 at the Association Of Korean Martial Arts (A.K.M.A) in Oakville, Connecticut under Romaine Staples and currently holds a black belt rank in Shaolin Kung Fu. He is rumored to be working on several related projects for The Weinstein Company. Martial arts legend Jet Li is quoted, in February 2007, as saying:
Fusco has stated in DVD special features that he is interested in the spiritual aspects of warrior cultures and acknowledges a "red thread" that runs through his interests in both Native American and Eastern philosophy. In 2007 he crossed Central Mongolia on horseback with his son, and Mongol nomads to conduct research on what would eventually develop into Marco Polo. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Fusco」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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