Alex Gansa

Alex Gansa (2015)

Alex Gansa is an American producer and screenwriter. He was a supervising producer for the first two seasons of the X-Files .

activity

Gansa began as a screenwriter for the television series Spenser , for which Howard Gordon also wrote screenplays, with whom he often worked in the following years.

He later worked as executive producer and screenwriter on the short-lived series Wolf Lake , which focuses on a group of werewolves in northwestern America. Gansa was u. a. also participated in the television series Numbers and Entourage and was the screenwriter and executive producer of the short-lived, Twin Peaks- like series Maximum Bob . He was also the executive producer of the Dawson's Creek series for the third season. Since the seventh season he has been involved as a co-executive producer on 24 .

Awards

He was nominated for an Emmy in 1989 for his work on the series Beauty and the Beast and for the WGA Award for his work on Entourage . In 2012, the series produced by him and Howard Gordon was awarded an Emmy.

Working together

Alex Gansa worked for many years as a screenwriter with Howard Gordon. The scripts of six episodes of the first season of the X-Files were written together and one episode of the second season was also shot from a script by the two authors (based on a story by Howard Gordon).

As early as 1987, both wrote on the television series Beauty and the Beast . Here they wrote 18 scripts together. The last episode was based on a story by Gordon / Gansa and was reworked into a script by PK Simonds . In this series, both of them also worked with George RR Martin . This is how some scripts came about based on stories shared by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon and George RR Martin. Some of these were turned into scripts by George RR Martin and some by the Gordon / Gansa team.

After a few years parting ways, Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa reunited on 24 , for which Gordon had already written several scripts. In 2010, Alex Gansa was involved in the development of Homeland by Howard Gordon , for which they wrote several joint scripts and which they supervised as executive producers.

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Alan Morton, The Complete Directory to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Television Series , ISBN 0-9657358-0-X

Web links

• Interview with homeland creators Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa
• Alex Gansa in the Internet Movie Database (English)