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Arne Olsen, a screenwriter whose credits see 1995’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and nan 1993 drama Cop and a Half directed by Henry Winkler and starring Burt Reynolds, died from complications related to crab Saturday, April 4, successful Vancouver, Canada. He was 64.
His decease was announced to Deadline by woman Dianne Olsen.
A autochthonal of Vancouver, Olsen moved to Los Angeles astatine property 21 to prosecute screenwriting. After graduating from nan American Film Institute, Olsen was a co-writer connected nan 1998 action movie Red Scorpion starring Dolph Lundgren.
His adjacent project, a spec book for Cop and a Half (sometimes styled arsenic Cop & 1/2), was produced by Imagine Entertainment and released by Universal. Reynolds co-starred pinch young character Norman D. Golden II successful a Kindergarten Cop-style drama astir a detective who gets paired pinch an eight-year-old execution witnesser to lick nan crime.
Olsen’s consequent credits included, among others, Red Scorpion 2 (1994), All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 (1996), nan 1997 TV-movie Escape from Atlantis and nan 2007 scary movie Hybrid starring a pre-Glee Cory Monteith.
Mighty Morphins Power Rangers: The Movie was released successful 1995 by 20th Century Fox betwixt nan 2nd and 3rd seasons of nan popular Mighty Morphins TV series.
In 2000, Olsen wrote and directed nan Canadian characteristic movie dramedy Here’s To Life! starring Eric McCormack (Will and Grace). The movie was nominated for 8 Genie Awards, including for actors James Whitmore and Kim Hunter, winning for its original score.
Olsen’s astir caller screenwriting in installments was 2018’s Distorted starring John Cusack and Christina Ricci. He besides taught screenwriting astatine Capilano (British Columbia) University and Vancouver Film School and serving arsenic a communicative editor connected galore films.
In summation to his wife, he is survived by children Ryan and Alyssa.
