Wesley Strick
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Wesley Strick (born February 11, 1954 in New York, New York) is an American screenwriter. He specializes in thrillers. He has written such films as the comic-horror hit Arachnophobia, the Martin Scorsese remake of Cape Fear and the videogame adaptation Doom.
Strick is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, where he studied creative writing with the poet Thom Gunn. Prior to his Hollywood career, he worked as a rock journalist in New York City, contributing features and reviews to Circus, Creem and Rolling Stone.
He was one of many writers to contribute to the famously unproduced Superman Lives. As a "script doctor" he has done production polishes on such films as Batman Returns, Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II.
Strick's screenplay for True Believer was nominated for a 1990 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Motion Picture. Strick won a 1994 Saturn Award (with co-writer Jim Harrison) for his screenplay for the Mike Nichols film Wolf.
His first novel, Out There in the Dark, was published in February 2006.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Love is the Drug (2006)
- Doom (2005)
- The Glass House (2001)
- Hitched (2001)
- Return to Paradise (1998)
- The Saint (1997)
- The Tie That Binds (1995)
- Wolf (1994)
- Final Analysis (1992)
- Cape Fear (1991)
- Arachnophobia (1990)
- True Believer (1989)
[edit] Further reading
- "Out There in the Dark"; Wesley Strick; Thomas Dunne Books (February 7, 2006); ISBN 0-312-34381-7
