Stanley Weiser
American screenwriter
Stanley Weiser is an American screenwriter.
Biography
He was born in New York City. His screen credits include Wall Street and W., both directed by Oliver Stone. 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. Weiser was Oliver Stone's screenwriting partner on the movie Wall Street, released in 1987 and a cult classic. 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."
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.
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