Director Stephen Gaghan, the mastermind behind blockbuster movies like "Traffic" and "Havoc", has reportedly found a buyer for his Brentwood, Los Angeles, home within a month of listing it.
Listing record shows a "sale pending"-sign on Gaghan's home. While there is no information on how much he sold the residence for or who the buyer is, the Real Estalker is reporting that the home was put into escrow within just two weeks of hitting the market.
Gaghan's home came up on the market late in April. He and his wife Minnie Mortimer purchased the residence for $4.4 million in 2008. They bought the house a year after they got married. Mortimer, who is a famous fashion designer, gave the home interiors a completely chic Mediterranean look, which contrasted with the house's Nantucket-style architecture, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The 5,276 square feet home has five bedrooms and six bathrooms spread across two floors. Interiors of the home feature hardwood flooring, beamed ceilings and French windows and glass doors. A large balcony on the second floor offers panoramic views of the city.
Located on a one-plus-acre lot, the house has a separate detached guest house. There is a manicured garden, pool with an attached spa and a two-car garage as well.
The listing describes the place as, "A property that combines a prime location with spectacular panoramic city, mountain and ocean views graciously situated on a huge acre+ lot with an array of amenities one can usually only dream about."
Gaghan moved to Los Angeles before he married Mortimer. "When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money, so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard," Gagahan said in an interview for Tim Grierson's book "Film Craft: Screenwriting."
Check out their Brentwood home photos here.
Gaghan has some acclaimed movies to his credit. But, the film-maker has also tried his hand at game-making. The "Syriana" screenwriter wrote "Call of Duty Ghosts." Of his experience about scripting a game and the difference between a movie and game he told FastCoCreate.com:
"It was kind of scary, because that's always when the rubber hits the road. It was all kind of fun and happy and vague, and suddenly it's not vague and not fun and not as happy. It's very specific: 'if I was working on this, this is how I would think about it, this is the kind of stuff I would try to achieve'."
"In filmmaking language, you'd say, 'The film is going to be subjective, so you seeing the film through the main character's P.O.V. And now we are just going to let that guy look at whatever he wants and run wherever he wants,'," he explains.
