Seth Lochhead is a Canadian screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 2011 film Hanna with David Farr.
Career
Lochhead attended Vancouver Film School's Writing for Film & Television program, where he wrote his first screenplay, Hanna, while he was in his early 20s.[1][2] He completed the script after leaving film school[3] and in 2006 it was listed on the Hollywood Black List of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood.[4][5] Lochhead sold the screenplay to Focus Features in March 2007, although he received a much higher bid from another American production company.[4][6]Hanna was directed by Joe Wright and released in 2011 after being in development for a total of six years.[7] Lochhead shared the writing credit with David Farr, a British writer and theatre director, who wrote another draft of the film during its development but whom Lochhead does not personally know.[7] He has been chosen to write for the upcoming Shadow of the Colossus movie.[8]