Wesley Strick

I grew up in New York City in the Sixties/early Seventies.

Graduated in the mid-Seventies from U.C. Berkeley, where I studied creative writing with the poet Thom Gunn.

Returning to New York, I worked as a rock journalist, writing for Circus, Creem and Rolling Stone. I was lucky enough to interview and profile such seminal Punk and New Wave bands as Talking Heads, Ramones, Blondie, and Television when they were all but unknown outside of Lower Manhattan.

Sold my first screenplay to Warner Bros. in '83, then moved to L.A. with my wife Marla (who taught me to drive).

I've written or rewritten a dozen-plus Hollywood movies (including True Believer, Arachnophobia, Cape Fear, Wolf, The Saint, Return To Paradise and the Rooney Mara reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street) and script-doctored films by Tim Burton (Batman Returns), John Woo (Face/Off, Mission: Impossible 2) and others. Then segued to streaming, working for 3 seasons as a writer and Executive Producer on Amazon's sci-fi drama The Man in the High Castle.

Served as a Creative Adviser at the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab from 1995 to 2015.

Marla and I have two grown sons -- one named for Jake Gittes, the other for Sam Spade.

My first published novel, Out There in the Dark, was released in 2006. In 2023, my autofictional memoir, Sympathetic Hero, became available on Amazon's Kindle Store along with my latest novel, The Dream Factory Is Now Open.