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((short description|English screenwriter and director))
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'''Matthew H.&nbsp;D. Chapman''' is an English journalist, author, screenwriter, director and activist.

== Writing and directing credits ==
Chapman's most-famous film, ''[[The Ledge (film)|The Ledge]]'', which he wrote and directed, starred [[Charlie Hunnam]], [[Liv Tyler]], [[Terrence Howard]], and [[Patrick Wilson (American actor)|Patrick Wilson]]. The film deals with an intellectual, personal, and ultimately fatal feud between an [[atheist]] and an [[evangelical Christian]]. An atheist on a ledge is forced to decide whether to die or to see someone he loves killed.  According to Chapman, it is "a piece of work that makes the basic intellectual arguments for atheism, but also makes a powerful emotional argument against cruelty of a religious kind" and the "ways people suffer as a result".<ref name=SK>((cite web|title=Skepticality podcast|url=https://www.skepticality.com/ledge/|website=Skepticality episode from 28 June 2011|accessdate=30 June 2017))</ref>

Chapman has written widely on the [[creation–evolution controversy]] in the US, particularly the case of [[Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District]], in which 11 parents successfully sued the school district to prevent them from reading a required statement aloud in ninth-grade science classes whenever evolution was taught, and is involved in promoting science and ethical technology across the world.

He has written and directed six films, written numerous screenplays, had articles published in ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'' and ''[[National Geographic]]'' among others, and blogged for the ''[[Huffington Post]]''. <ref>((cite web|last1=Chapman|first1=Matthew|title=Huffington Post author page|website=[[HuffPost]] |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/author/matthew-chapman|accessdate=1 July 2017))</ref> He is the author of two books, "Trials of the Monkey – An Accidental Memoir" and "40 Days and 40 Nights – Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania".

== ScienceDebate.org ==

Chapman founded [[ScienceDebate.org]] in 2007. His co-founders were fellow screenwriter [[Shawn Lawrence Otto]], science writer [[Chris Mooney (journalist)|Chris Mooney]], marine biologist and science blogger [[Sheril Kirshenbaum]], noted physicist [[Lawrence Krauss]], and philosopher [[Austin Dacey]]. The organization was formed to pressure the presidential candidates to hold a debate on science and technology issues.

== Family ==

Chapman is the great-great-grandson of [[Charles Darwin]]. His mother Clare was the daughter of the philosophy professor and author [[Francis Cornford]] and poet [[Frances Cornford]] (née Darwin), daughter of [[Francis Darwin]]. His father, Cecil Chapman, was the son of the noted physicist and astronomer, [[Sydney Chapman (mathematician)|Sydney Chapman]], responsible for early research on the nature of the [[ozone layer]].

==Books==
*''Trials of the Monkey: An Accidental Memoir'' (Picador, 5 July 2002) ((ISBN|0-312-30078-6))
*''[[40 Days and 40 Nights (book)|40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania]]''. (Harper Collins, 10 April 2007) ((ISBN|0-06-117945-0))

==Filmography==
* ''[[Hussy]]'' (1980) (screenplay, director)
* ''[[Strangers Kiss]]'' (1983) (screenplay, director)
* ''[[Slow Burn (1986 film)|Slow Burn]]'' (1986) (screenplay, director)
* ''[[Heart of Midnight (film)|Heart of Midnight]]'' (1988) (screenplay, director)
* ''[[A Grande Arte]]'' (1991) (additional dialogue) (screenplay: English version)
* ''[[Consenting Adults (1992 film)|Consenting Adults]]'' (1992) (screenplay)
* ''[[Color of Night]]'' (1994) (screenplay)
* ''[[What's the Worst That Could Happen?]]'' (2001) (screenplay)
* ''[[Runaway Jury]]'' (2003) (screenplay)
* ''[[Black Water Transit]]'' (2009) (screenplay)
* ''[[The Ledge (film)|The Ledge]]'' (2011) (screenplay, director)
* ''[[Reaching for the Moon (2013 film)|Reaching for the Moon]]'' (2013) (screenplay)
* "The American Guest" (2021) (screenplay) 4-hour limited series on HBO/HBO Max

== References ==
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==External links==
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