Jessica kaplan biography

Jessica Kaplan, screenwriter who made her first script sale when she was 16, died in a plane crash Friday June 6 in Los Angeles.

Jessica kaplan biography

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Kaplan was a passenger on the airplane that crashed into an apartment building in the Fairfax area not far from CBS Television City, killing four other people, including her uncle, Jeffrey Siegel, the pilot.

Cause of the crash is still under investigation.

The young writer first made news in when her spec script &#;The Powers That Be&#; was bought by New Line for $, She was entering her senior year at Santa Monica&#;s Crossroads School at the time.

Script &#; based on her own observations of affluent white classmates in West L.A. who mimicked gangster culture &#; earned her representation at Endeavor, where she had since remained a client.

&#;The Powers That Be&#; has gained significant traction recently.

Project was rewritten by Stephen Gaghan and is skedded to begin shooting in the fall with the new title &#;Havoc.&#;