Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

Hollywood Power Couples

Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Upon graduating from USC Film School, David Veloz had recently promised his wife that he would quit writing and they would move out of Los Angeles.

With a couple of good screenplays under his belt, and having the sensibilities to write extreme material that still retained its humanity. Veloz was contacted by producers Jane Hamsher and Don Murphy, who offered him the job of rewriting a screenplay for Oliver Stone.

The screenplay, "Natural Born Killers" (NBK), was based on an original script by Quentin Tarantino, and was about the media and America's infatuation with a serial killer couple, Veloz, Stone, and Richard Rutowski significantly expanded and modified the script into a satirical condemnation of media violence.

After the critical and box office success of Natural Born Killers, Veloz became one of Hollywood's most sought-after screenwriters, he would leverage his success into many opportunities, writing scripts for Stone, Luis Mandoki, and Ridley Scott.

Veloz would work with Hamsher and Murphy again on his next project, which would also mark his directorial debut. The resulting film was "Permanent Midnight", an adaptation of Jerry Stahl's autobiographical book, starring Ben Stiller. The movie, which would go on to make $1.2 million domestically, later became a cult classic.

Veloz's next feature was "Behind Enemy Lines," a big-budget war/action movie starring Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson.

On <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0110632/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Natural Born Killers (1994)</a>: The work on this film was no different for me. It was my first produced screenplay and I&#39;m very proud to have worked on this film.

I see the violence in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0110632/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Natural Born Killers (1994)</a> as comical or surreal, what a lot of people have called &#39;MTV on drugs&#39;.

For me, focusing on the evil and the violence of these characters was like examining the landscape of the darker side of man&#39;s nature.

I don&#39;t think kids should see <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0110632/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Natural Born Killers (1994)</a>. But in the end, I think this is a movie that has a powerful message about our world. This is not a movie meant to incite violence . . . but one meant to reflect upon it.

It was about taking a look at the harsher side of society. I didn&#39;t just delve into evil and violence, but I also made the story more romantic.

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David Veloz

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