Paul Guay conceived and co-wrote Liar, Liar, at the time of its release the sixth-highest-grossing comedy in history, the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year, the second-highest-grossing film of Jim Carrey’s career, and Imagine’s highest-grossing film ever.
The screenplay received an Honorable Mention (along with Fargo, Million Dollar Baby, The Full Monty and Catch Me If You Can) in Scr(i)pt magazine’s list of the Best Scripts of the Past 10 Years.
Guay co-wrote The Little Rascals, Universal’s second-highest-grossing film of the year;
Co-wrote Heartbreakers, starring Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman and Jason Lee, which opened #1 at the box office, and the rights to which Guay co-licensed to MGM for production as a stage musical;
Wrote On a Pale Horse for Disney and Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, based on Book One of the eight-volume “Incarnations of Immortality” series by New York Times-bestselling author Piers Anthony; and
Just finished co-writing The Christmas Spirit for Dean Devlin to produce and Rob Minkoff to direct.
Guay’s screenwriting experience includes The NeverEnding Story, for which he did an uncredited polish. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the acclaimed fantasy spawned two sequels; and
Mouse Hunt , for which he did an uncredited co-polish. Starring Nathan Lane, Lee Evans and Christopher Walken and directed by Gore Verbinski, the comedy was the highest-grossing of DreamWorks’ first five films.
He is, of course, a former consultant to World Wrestling Entertainment.
Guay has spoken on writing at, or been interviewed by:
AFI
The American Film Renaissance Institute
APS Entertainment & Hollywood Success
Art Center College of Design
Backstage West
BBC 6
CineVegas
Cybercity Radio
Diane Thomas Screenwriting Awards (mentor)
Film Writers Guide
FUSION Film & Theatre Arts
The Great American PitchFest
The Institute for Humane Studies’ Cinematic and Literary Traditions of Liberty: A Workshop
The Institute for Humane Studies’ MFA Scholarship Review Committee, Film and Fiction Scholarship Program (judge)
Liberty Film Festival
Menlo School
Pomona College Magazine
Ross Reports
The Paul Ryan Show
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s Nebula Awards (panelist and keynote speaker)
ScreenplayLab
Screenwriters Online
Scr(i)pt
Scriptwriters Network
Sherwood Oaks College
UCLA Extension Writers’ Program
USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program
WGA Craft Conference
Writers Digest
Guay is interviewed in Dreams on Spec, the documentary about screenwriters which also features Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski, James L. Brooks, Steven E. de Souza, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, Gary Ross and Ed Solomon.