Wesley Strick
Strick in 2008
Born	(1954-02-11)February 11, 1954 (age 72) New York City,New York, U.S.
Occupation	Screenwriter

Wesley Strick (born February 11, 1954) is an American screenwriter who has written such films asArachnophobia,Wolf andMartin Scorsese's remake ofCape Fear. Strick also worked as a writer/executive producer onThe Man in the High Castle.

Strick was born inNew York City,New York, the son of Racelle (née Kessler) and Louis Strick.^[1] He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, where he studied creative writing with the poetThom Gunn. Prior to his Hollywood career, he worked as a rock journalist in New York City, contributing features and reviews toCircus,Creem andRolling Stone.^[2]

As a "script doctor" he has done production polishes on such films asBatman Returns,Face/Off andMission: Impossible 2. Strick's screenplay forTrue Believer was nominated for a 1990Edgar Award for Best Mystery Motion Picture. Strick won a 1994Saturn Award (with co-writer Jim Harrison) for his screenplay for the Mike Nichols filmWolf.

Since 1995, Strick has served as a creative advisor at theSundance Institute's Screenwriters Lab. Strick wrote the original script forTim Burton's unproducedSuperman Lives, later re-written byDan Gilroy as a more budget conscious take on Strick's story.^[3][4] His first novel,Out There in the Dark, was published bySt. Martin's Press in February 2006. His second novel,Whirlybird, is available as a Kindle book on Amazon.com. In 2008, Strick co-wrote the screenplay for a remake ofA Nightmare on Elm Street, starringJackie Earle Haley andRooney Mara, directed bySamuel Bayer. The film won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Horror Movie of 2010.

Strick's adaptation of the Belgian thrillerLoft, starring James Marsden and Karl Urban, was released by Open Road in January 2015. In summer 2013, Strick wrote and directed a short film,Watching, Waiting, which screened at numerous 2014 film festivals, including Women and Minorities in Media, Black Maria, Sedona and Williamstown. In fall 2015, Strick relocated to London to write on Season 2 of the Amazon drama series (based on the Philip K. Dick novel)The Man in the High Castle. He returned to Los Angeles in 2016 to resume as a writer/co-executive producer on Season 3 (Strick wrote the season opener, mid-season finale and final episode). In early 2018, Strick began work on Season 4.

Strick isJewish.^[5][6]

• True Believer (1989)
• Arachnophobia (1990)
• Cape Fear (1991)
• Final Analysis (1992)
• Batman Returns (1992; uncredited)
• Wolf (1994)
• The Tie That Binds (1995; also director)
• The Saint (1997)
• Return to Paradise (1998)
• Hitched (2001; also director)
• The Glass House (2001)
• Doom (2005)
• Love Is the Drug akaAddicted to Her Love (2006; also executive producer)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
• The Loft (2014; also executive producer)

• "Out There in the Dark"; Wesley Strick; Thomas Dunne Books (February 7, 2006);ISBN 0-312-34381-7

• Wesley Strick atIMDb

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• Jewish American screenwriters
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• Screenwriters from New York City
• University of California, Berkeley alumni
• Vassar College alumni
• 21st-century American Jews

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