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Jane Loretta Anne Goldman Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.; at ancestry.com (born 11 June 1970) is a British screenwriter and producer. She is mostly known for collaborating with director Matthew Vaughn on the screenplays of (2014) and its sequel (2017), as well as (2011), Kick-Ass (2010), and Stardust (2007). Goldman also worked on the story of (2014), the sequel to First Class, again in partnership with Vaughn. Both met high critical praise for their work.
Goldman's first solo screenplay is The Woman in Black (2012). She also wrote the script for The Limehouse Golem and Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, both released in 2016. She is the writer of Edgar Wright's upcoming remake of Barbarella.
She has also written books such as The X-Files Book of the Unexplained (1995) and the novel Dreamworld (2000). Goldman presented her own TV show, Jane Goldman Investigates (2003–04), a non-fiction series on the paranormal, for the channel Living.
Goldman also wrote books: Thirteen-Something (1993), Streetsmarts: A Teenager's Safety Guide (1996), Sussed and Streetwise (1997), the two-volume best-selling series The X-Files Book of the Unexplained (1997), her first and only novel Dreamworld (2000), and Do the Right Thing (2003), among others.
Between 2003 and 2004 she had her own television series. Jane Goldman Investigates researched the paranormal and was transmitted by channel Living between 2003 and 2004. Goldman is also in the production teams of a number of TV shows, such as The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
In 2000, she modelled for Wacoal.
After Stardust, Goldman became a frequent collaborator of Vaughn. In a 2011 interview, the writer said that when she works with the director she does the "construction work" and the "interior designing" while Vaughn acts as the "architect." Goldman co-wrote his next films, the comic-book adaptations Kick-Ass (2010) and (2011). Both films won strong praise amongst film critics. Kick-Ass nowadays has a cult following, while X-Men: First Class is considered by many critics to be one of the best of all X-Men films. Rotten Tomatoes consensus says: "With a strong script, stylish direction, and powerful performances from its well-rounded cast, X-Men: First Class is a welcome return to form for the franchise." Goldman has described the film as an "alternate history" for the X-Men, saying that while rebooting, the writers did not want to go fully "against the canon of the X-Men trilogy", comparing to the various approaches the comic had in over fifty years of publication.
She continued to work in adaptations, and was also a co-writer with Vaughn and Peter Straughan for the 2011 drama-thriller The Debt, which was based on the 2007 Israeli film HaHov and directed by John Madden. Goldman also adapted for Hammer The Woman in Black, a gothic horror film based on Susan Hill's novel. The project marks the first solo screenplay by Goldman. The film was directed by James Watkins. It was released in 2012 and met positive reviews. In March 2013, The Woman in Black won the Empire Award for Best Horror.
She is credited on , the sequel to First Class, as writing the story with Matthew Vaughn and Simon Kinberg. After that project, she co-wrote with Vaughn the script for (2015), based on the comic book by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.
She wrote the script for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an adaptation of the Ransom Riggs novel of the same name, which was directed by Tim Burton. The project was followed by The Limehouse Golem, an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's 1994 murder mystery novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem. Goldman read the book years before she was a professional screenwriter and kept it in mind as a potential project. She said in an interview for ScreenCraft: "What's funny is that I read the book long before I was screenwriting. I think it was the only time that I can remember when I read a book and thought, 'Gosh, I hope somebody makes a movie of this!' ... Weirdly, years later I was on a film jury together with the producer whom I had read had the rights and I asked him whatever happened to the adaptation and said that I loved the book. That is how this came about, because he said the rights were free again and asked, 'Do you want to do it?'"
Goldman and Vaughn collaborated again for the screenplay of , the sequel to The Secret Service. The film was released in 2017.
In May of that year, HBO announced Goldman was one of four writers working on a potential pilot for a Game of Thrones spin-off. In addition to Goldman, Carly Wray, Max Borenstein, and Brian Helgeland were also working on potential pilots. Goldman worked with George R. R. Martin, the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the series of novels upon which the original show is based and Game of Thrones showrunners D. B. Weiss and David Benioff would also be executive producers for whichever project.
In June 2018, it was confirmed that Goldman's pilot had been greenlit by HBO, and would focus on "the world's descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour", thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones. Naomi Watts was cast in a lead role and S.J. Clarkson was the chosen director for the opening episode. In late October 2019, it was announced that HBO would not be moving forward with the pilot.
In December 2017, Goldman was announced as the writer of Disney's live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, with Rob Marshall being eyed to direct. She was not credited in the final script.
Goldman co-wrote the 2020 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Gothic romance Rebecca, directed by Ben Wheatley.
| 2007 | Stardust | Co-writer with Matthew Vaughn | ||
| 2010 | Kick-Ass | Co-writer with Matthew Vaughn | ||
| The Debt | Co-writer with Matthew Vaughn and Peter Straughan | |||
| 2011 | James Bond Supports International Women's Day | Short film | ||
| Co-writer with Matthew Vaughn and Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz; story by Bryan Singer and Sheldon Turner | ||||
| 2012 | The Woman in Black | |||
| 2014 | Co-writer of story only, with Matthew Vaughn and Simon Kinberg | |||
| 2015 | Co-writer with Matthew Vaughn | |||
| 2016 | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | |||
| The Limehouse Golem | ||||
| 2017 | Co-writer with Matthew Vaughn | |||
| 2020 | Rebecca | Co-writer with Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse |
| 1993 | Thirteensomething: A Survivor's Guide | Puffin Books | ||
| 1994 | Sex: How? Why? What? | Piccadilly Press | ||
| 1995 | For Weddings, a Funeral and When You Can't Flush the Loo | Puffin Books | ||
| Sussed and Streetwise | Piccadilly Press (London, England) | Reprinted as Streetsmarts: A Teenager's Safety Guide, Barron's Educational Series (Hauppauge, NY), 1996 | ||
| The X-Files Book of the Unexplained – Vol. 1 | Harper Prism | |||
| 1997 | The X-Files Book of the Unexplained – Vol. 2 | Harper Prism | ||
| 2000 | Dreamworld | Pocket Books, MTV Books | ||
| 2003 | Do the Right Thing: A Teenager's Survival Guide for Tricky Situations | Piccadilly Press | ||
| 2008 | The X-Files Book of the Unexplained: Volumes 1 and 2 | Harper Collins |
| Glamour Awards | Filmmaker of the Year | Body of work | |||
| Hugo Award | Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form | Stardust | |||
| British Independent Film Awards | Best Screenplay | Kick-Ass | |||
| Scream Awards | Best Scream-play | ||||
| WFTV Awards | UK Film Council Writing Award | Body of work | |||
| Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards | Best Screenplay | Kick-Ass | |||
| Evening Standard British Film Awards | Best Screenplay | ||||
| Glamour Woman of the Year Awards | Filmmaker of the Year | Body of work | |||
| Bram Stoker Awards | Best Screenplay | The Woman in Black | |||
| Saturn Awards | Best Writing |
Goldman also won the Cosmopolitan magazine Woman of Tomorrow award for achievement in journalism.
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