Adam Simon (born February 6, 1962) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. His directing credits include ''
Brain Dead'' (1990), ''
Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger'' (1992), and ''
Carnosaur'' (1993). Simon, along with producer
Brannon Braga
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, co-created the television series ''
Salem''. As a screenwriter, Simon is known for ''
Bones
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'' (2001), ''
The Haunting in Connecticut
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'' (2009), and ''
Books of Blood
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'' (2020).
Career
He plays a humorous version of himself, pitching a project and getting barred from the studio lot, in the famous opening-shot of
Robert Altman
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's ''
The Player'' (1992). He previously appeared, thinly veiled, as a fictional character in
Christopher Guest
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's film ''
The Big Picture'' (1989) and would reappear in
Kim Newman
Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. He is interested in film history and horror fiction – both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's ''Dracula'' at the age of eleven & ...
's novel ''Johnny Alucard'' (2013), where he again pitches a project and becomes the only person in Hollywood standing up to a particularly sinister studio executive.
Kim Newman has noted that Adam Simon has "become one of the most oft-cited figures in contemporary Hollywood satire, and those in the know have begun to play the game of Simon-spotting.
..Remarkable look- and act-alikes for Adam Simon have appeared in a couple of sinister Hollywood satires: Adam Rafkin (Jarrad Paul) on the cancelled-too-soon TV series ''Action'', who ruins his emotional and physical health on successive drafts of ''Beverly Hills Gun Club'' for sleazy überproducer Peter Dragon (Jay Mohr); and Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) in David Lynch's ''Mulholland Drive'', who finds his entire life - and film project - jeopardised when he considers going against the wishes of backers who represent either organised crime or Hell."
"Who Let Adam Simon on the Lot?" by Kim Newman
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Filmography
Film
Television
Actor
References
External links
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1962 births
Film directors from Illinois
Living people
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