Eric Heisserer
Eric Heisserer (* 1970 ) is an American screenwriter , film producer and film director .
Life
Eric Heisserers career in film began in 2000. This year he was his screenplay The Dionaea House at Warner Bros. sell. In 2008 he was hired to rewrite the script for A Nightmare on Elm Street , a reboot of the popular Nightmare series about the psychopath Freddy Krueger . The first draft came from Wesley Strick .
He then revised the script for The Thing (2011), a prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 classic The Thing from Another World . The script for Final Destination 5 followed . In 2013 he directed the film Hours for the first time with Paul Walker . Here, too, he had written the script.
In 2013 he wrote the screenplay for the novel Bird Box - Close Your Eyes by Josh Malerman . Andy Muschietti is to film the script . He wrote the script for Conjuring 2 with brothers Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes .
His screenplay for Arrival was for the Academy Awards in 2017 as adapted for Best Screenplay nomination. In the same year he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year . For the film he received the British Fantasy Award in 2017 .
Filmography
- 2010: A Nightmare on Elm Street
- 2011: Final Destination 5
- 2011: The Thing
- 2013: Hours - Race against Time (Hours) (also director)
- 2016: Conjuring 2 (The Conjuring 2) (co-author)
- 2016: Lights Out (also producer)
- 2016: Arrival (also producer)
- 2018: Bird Box - Close Your Eyes (Bird Box)
- 2020: Bloodshot
Web links
- Eric Heisserer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ on the sale of The Dionaea House to Warner Brothers. ( Memento from December 26, 2005 on the Internet Archive ) Hollywood Reporter
- ↑ a b Eric Heisserer Paying Attention to the Hallmarks of 'Final Destination' Franchise . In: Bloody-Disgusting.com .
- ↑ 'Mama' director Andy Muschietti in talks for 'Bird Box' . In: digitalspy.co.uk , February 27, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- ↑ Class of 2017, accessed June 30, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hotter, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter, film producer and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |