Lynda Obst
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Lynda Rosen Obst (born April 14, 1950, New York) is a feature film producer. She worked as an editor at The New York Times before moving to Los Angeles with then-husband David Obst. Starting at The Geffen Film Company as a "d-girl", her first major project was developing the source material that would eventually become Flashdance.
She later partnered with Debra Hill in 1986. The partnership would go on to produce Adventures in Babysitting, Heartbreak Hotel and The Fisher King, among other projects.
Following The Fisher King (1991), Obst and Hill parted ways, Obst going on to produce Sleepless in Seattle, One Fine Day, Someone Like You (film), among other films.
Following the end of her relationship with Hill, Lynda Obst became an in-studio producer. She was one of the central figures in the battle over the Richard Preston article Crisis in the Hot Zone.
She is the author of the memoir Hello, He Lied (1996), detailing her experiences in the modern studio system.
She is currently writing and producing Interstellar, the upcoming film to be directed by Steven Spielberg.
She is a graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, CA.
[edit] Bibliography
- Dirty Dreams: A Novel, (New Amer Library Trade: New York, NY, 1990. ISBN 0-453-00731-7)
- Hello, He Lied, (Little, Brown & Company: New York, NY, 1996. ISBN 0-316-62211-7)
[edit] See also
[edit] Selected Filmography
- Flashdance (1983), Associate Producer
- Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Producer
- Heartbreak Hotel (film) (1988), Producer/Co-Producer
- The Fisher King (1991), Producer
- Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Producer
- Bad Girls (film) (1994), Executive Producer
- One Fine Day (1996), Producer
- Contact (film) (1997), Executive Producer
- The Siege (1998), Producer
- Hope Floats (1998), Producer
- Someone Like You (film) (2001), Producer
- How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (2003), Producer
