- Wesley Strick
"Wesley Strick" (born
February 11 ,1954 inNew York ,New York ) is an American screenwriter who 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 andRolling 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 "".Strick's screenplay for "True Believer" was nominated for a 1990
Edgar Award for Best Mystery Motion Picture. Strick won a 1994Saturn 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 bySt. Martin's Press in February 2006.Since 1995, Strick has served as an advisor at the
Sundance Institute 's Screenwriters Lab.The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Strick is writing the screenplay for a remake of "A Nightmare on Elm Street ".elected filmography
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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)Further reading
* "Out There in the Dark"; Wesley Strick; Thomas Dunne Books (February 7, 2006); ISBN 0-312-34381-7
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