Rufus was Konvitz’s 170-Pound Great Pyrenese who ate the problematic Chapter, forcing Konvitz to successfully rewrite it. Konvitz dedicated The Guardian to Rufus, who he credited with editing Chapter 27. Its publisher, Bantam, went back to immediately print a million extra copies.
Konvitz’s sequel to The Sentinel, The Guardian, sold out entirely in 10 days. The Sentinel would go on to sell over 7 million copies. Simon and Schuster bought the rights to The Sentinel in September of ’73 and within six months he received an offer of $200,000 for the paperback rights and $500,000 for the movie rights from Universal.Ě first-time author had never before been hired by a major studio to adapt and produce a film from the author's own novel before. Konvitz first pitched The Sentinel as a movie but was turned down by several studios, so he decided to write The Sentinel as a novel, staying up writing until 4am each night while he practiced law in New York during the day. The financiers asked to see the script but Konvitz didn't have a script or a writer, so he wrote the script himself in 3 days.
Konvitz showed the treatment to the financier on a Friday and told them the screenplay was being typed.
Konvitz wrote the screenplay for “Silent Night, Bloody Night” which he also produced. Konvitz saw that anything good was being snapped up by studios before it was ever seen by him, so Konvitz set out to create original projects. As a producer, it would have been usual for Konvitz to option properties and put a package together. Konvitz worked as an agent for CMA, general counsel for the Jerry Lewis theatre chain, a production executive for MGM, and as a film producer. Konvitz was Managing Partner of VX119, a financing company in the entertainment industry. Later, he married actress Jill McWhirter in 1998 and fathered a second child with her, Katherine Arielle (2002). He married model Vicki Peters in 1980, but they were divorced after parenting one child, Kristen Nicole (1983) who is a motion pictures packaging agent with United Talent Agency in Los Angeles. It was followed by a film adaptation in 1977, which he produced and adapted from the novel. Konvitz is probably best known for writing the novel The Sentinel, published in 1974. He continued his education at Cornell University (BA 1966) and the Columbia University School of Law (1969). He was raised in Woodmere, New York and graduated from Hewlett High School in 1962.
Jeffrey Konvitz (born July 22, 1944) is an American attorney, writer, and film producer.
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