James DeMonaco (born October 12, 1969) is an American filmmaker.
[2] DeMonaco's first produced screenplay was the Robin Williams comedy Jack (1996), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
He spent eight years in Paris, France, that led him to "put a microscope" on his life after seeing the difference in the relationship toward guns and violence in Paris compared to New York.
In anger, his wife said "I wish we could all have one free one [a murder] a year", something which helped inspire the Purge series.
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