Stanley Weiser is an American

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Biography

He was born in

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. His screen credits include ''

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'' and '' W.'', both directed by

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. 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

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in 1987. Weiser was

's screenwriting partner on the movie ''

'', 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

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for not containing overtly "revisionist history." Weiser's other projects include two civil rights dramas, developed as feature films, but made for television. ''

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'', 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. Weiser also adapted the novel, ''

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'', by Robert Harris, for HBO. He wrote the NBC four-hour mini-series ''

Witness to the Mob ''Witness to the Mob'' is a television film which premiered on Sunday, May 10, and concluded on Monday, May 11, 1998. Plot Based on a true story, the film follows the rise of Sammy "The Bull" Gravano in the ranks of the Gambino crime family, o ...

'' in 1998, which was produced by Robert De Niro. In 2013, it was reported he'd optioned the novel ''Three Graves Full'' and intended to write the script.

Personal life

He is married and lives in

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. He is a founding member of the West Los Angeles Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center.

Filmography

*'' Street Scenes 1970'' (1970) *'' Coast to Coast'' (1980) *'' Project X'' (1987) *''

'' (1987) *''

'' (1990) *''

'' (1994) *''

'' (1998) *'' Freedom Song'' (2000) *'' Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story'' (2003) *'' W.'' (2008)

References

External links

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Interview
on '' W.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Weiser, Stanley 20th-century American screenwriters 21st-century American screenwriters American male screenwriters Tisch School of the Arts alumni Writers from New York City Living people Screenwriters from New York (state) Year of birth missing (living people) Writers Guild of America Award winners