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Brandon Murphy, the screenwriter who co-wrote last year’s action-comedy sequel _Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard_, died January 9 in Los Angeles, friends told Deadline. He was 43. No cause of death

was given. Murphy penned _Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard _with his younger brother, Phillip Murphy, and with Tom O’Connor, who wrote the original 2017 pic. Both starred Ryan Reynolds and Samuel

L. Jackson, with Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas joining for the sequel. The latter opened to $17 million domestic on Father’s Day weekend last year and finished at $70 million. Murphy also

wrote and was making his directing debut on horror thriller _Snow Valley, _which was in postproduction at the time of his death. The Murphy brothers made the 2011 Black List with their

script _The Last Drop._ The project now is set up at 21 Laps. Born in Norristown, PA, in 1978, Murphy gained notoriety during a stint in New York City in the mid-2000s as the underground

graffiti artist secretly responsible for the ubiquitous, though misspelled, “Rod Stuart Love the Hamptons” tags. During that time, he sold a pitch for his first feature, _Pony Bush, _to

Dimension. Friends tell Deadline that when the money from the script sale came in, he went to Los Angeles, booked a room at Chateau Marmont and proceeded to spend every last nickel of it in

short order. WATCH ON DEADLINE A friend once asked him, “Is it true after _Pony Bush_ you blew 60 grand in two months?” Murphy replied with one of his famous one-liners, “No, it was 80 grand

in one month.” Brandon Murphy also was an abstract artist and fronted the L.A.-based band D.O.L. — short for “Drunk Old Ladies” — and filmed a video for their song “Astro-Time” that starred

Chris Messina. The Murphy brothers, who worked on several films as a writing team, also hosted _Camp Goodboy, _a weekly podcast on which invited guests joined them for a satirical critique

on pop culture and current events. See their Instagram here.