Stanley Weiser is an American screenwriter.[1]
Stanley Weiser | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | NYU Film School |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
Biography
editHe was born in New York City. His screen credits include Wall Street and W., both directed by Oliver Stone.[1] He also wrote the 20th Century Fox film, Project X. He is credited for creating characters in the sequel to Wall Street: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
He wrote the screenplay for Project X with Matthew Broderick in 1987.[2] Weiser was Oliver Stone's screenwriting partner on the movie Wall Street, released in 1987 and a cult classic.[3] He also helped Stone write the film W in 2008, about the life of US President George Bush. The dialogue was positively received by Roger Ebert for not containing overtly "revisionist history."[4]
Weiser's other projects include two civil rights dramas, developed as feature films, but made for television. Murder in Mississippi, a chronicle of the 1964 Freedom Summer movement and the lives and deaths of Cheney, Schwerner, and Goodman, the three young civil rights workers who were killed by the Ku Klux Klan, which aired on NBC in 1990. Freedom Song, a semi-fictional account of the early SNCC movement in Mississippi, was co-written with Phil Alden Robinson, who also directed.
Weiser also adapted the novel, Fatherland, by Robert Harris, for HBO. He wrote the NBC four-hour mini-series Witness to the Mob in 1998, which was produced by Robert De Niro.
In 2013, it was reported he'd optioned the novel Three Graves Full and intended to write the script.[5]
Personal life
editHe is married and lives in Santa Monica, California. He is a founding member of the West Los Angeles Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center.
Filmography
edit- Street Scenes 1970 (1970)
- Coast to Coast (1980)
- Project X (1987)
- Wall Street (1987)
- Murder in Mississippi (1990)
- Fatherland (1994)
- Witness to the Mob (1998)
- Freedom Song (2000)
- Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003)
- W. (2008)
References
edit- ^ a b "Stanley Weiser". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-10-12.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (April 17, 1987), Project X, Roger Ebert, retrieved 28 April 2024
- ^ When greed is not good, The Week, January 8, 2015, retrieved 28 April 2024
- ^ Don't say "yes" until I'm finished talking, Roger Ebert, October 15, 2008, retrieved 28 April 2024
- ^ Fleming Jr., Mike (2013), Cannes: Stanley Weiser To Script 'Three Graves Full', Deadline, retrieved 28 April 2024
External links
edit- Stanley Weiser at IMDb
- Interview on W.