Christopher McQuarrie is an Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for his work on The Usual Suspects , The Way of the Gun, and Tom Cruise's movie Valkyrie. His most recent work is as screenwriter on 2009's Killshot.Armchair General: Valkyrie - An Interview with Christopher McQuarrie (April 19, 2009)
Christopher McQuarrie's Career
Christopher McQuarrie won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for The Usual Suspects. Before he wandered out to Hollywood, he spent a year working in Western Australia, and some time as a security guard for a detective agency in New Jersey.Variety: Christopher McQuarrie (April 19, 2009)
In 1993 McQuarrie was approached to co-write the screen play of Public Access by an old highschool friend, Bryan Singer. Public Access shared the 1993 Sundance Film Festival Grand Prize, and McQuarrie's career was born.Variety: Christopher McQuarrie (April 19, 2009)