Brandon Murphy Dies: ‘Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ Writer Was 43
Brandon Murphy Dies: ‘Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ Writer Was 43
Brandon Murphy, the screenwriter who co-wrote the 2021 action-comedy sequel 'Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard,' died January 9 in Los Angeles. He was 43.
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Murphy penned Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard with his younger brother, Phillip Murphy, and with Tom O’Conner, who wrote the original 2017 pic. Both starred Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, with Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas joining for the sequel. The latter opened to $17 million domestic on Father’s Day weekend last year and finished at $70 million.
Murphy also wrote and was making his directing debut on horror thriller Snow Valley, which was in postproduction at the time of his death.
The Murphy brothers made the 2011 Black List with their script The Last Drop. The project now is set up at 21 Laps.
He sold a pitch for his first feature, Pony Bush, to Dimension. Friends tell Deadline that when the money from the script sale came in, he went to Los Angeles, booked a room at Chateau Marmont and proceeded to spend every last nickel of it in short order.
A friend once asked him, “Is it true after Pony Bush you blew 60 grand in two months?” Murphy replied with one of his famous one-liners, “No, it was 80 grand in one month.”
