Rhett Reese is an American screenwriter. His early credits included '' Clifford's Really Big Movie'' and ''

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''. He has collaborated with Paul Wernick, writing the films '' Zombieland'', '' G.I. Joe: Retaliation'', and ''

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'', as well as ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Together they also created the reality series ''

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''.

Early life

Reese grew up in

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, and one of his high school friends was the brother of Paul Wernick. Years later, as a budding screenwriter, Reese met Wernick again as he worked as a television producer, and one of Wernick's jobs, '' Big Brother 2'', inspired both to do their own take on reality shows, ''

''. Broadcast on

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, the series drew the highest ratings for the channel. ''The Joe Schmo Show'' was also named on numerous Best Of lists, including ''

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'' magazine's "Top 10 TV Shows of 2003" and ''

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s "50 Best TV Shows Ever on DVD."

Career

In 2004, Reese and Wernick created and executive-produced ''Stuck on ODB'', a comedy reality show starring

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(ODB) of the

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for Spike TV. However, ODB died before the show ever aired. A year later, Wernick and Reese followed up with '' Invasion Iowa'', a high-concept, high-stakes comedy hybrid starring

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. The show premiered on Spike on March 29, 2005. Reese and Wernick's first feature collaboration was the 2009 film '' Zombieland'', which they created and also executive-produced. The film was released by

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on October 2, 2009, and became the highest-grossing zombie film at the time. Reese and Wernick followed ''Zombieland'' with

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' '' G.I. Joe: Retaliation'' (2013), starring

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, and

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. The sequel outperformed the original, grossing $375 million. In February 2012, it was announced

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had acquired Reese and Wernick's script for a feature film adaptation of '' Cowboy Ninja Viking''. In September 2012, their original science fiction spec screenplay ''Epsilon'' was sold to

, with plans to co-produce with

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. In April 2015, Reese and Wernick had optioned Thomas Oliver's book ''The Real Coke, The Real Story'' to produce a film about the failed launch of

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Personal life

Reese lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress, writer and producer

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Filmography

Film Television

References

External links

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Podcast Interview
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