{{short description|American screenwriter}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Stanley Weiser | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States]] | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = [[Screenwriter]] | alma_mater = [[Tisch School of the Arts|NYU Film School]] | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Stanley Weiser''' is an American [[screenwriter]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|title=Stanley Weiser|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/531129/Stanley-Weiser/filmography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012081020/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/531129/Stanley-Weiser/filmography|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2013|archive-date=2013-10-12}}</ref>
==Biography== He was born in [[New York City]]. His screen credits include ''[[Wall Street (1987 film)|Wall Street]]'' and ''[[W. (film)|W.]]'', both directed by [[Oliver Stone]].<ref name=NYT/> He also wrote the 20th Century Fox film, ''[[Project X (1987 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 (1987 film)|Project X]]'' with [[Matthew Broderick]] in 1987.<ref name="Arogerebert_rogerebert.com">{{Citation |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=April 17, 1987 |title=Project X |publisher=Roger Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/project-x-1987 |access-date=28 April 2024}}</ref> Weiser was [[Oliver Stone]]'s screenwriting partner on the movie ''[[Wall Street (1987 film)|Wall Street]]'', released in 1987 and a cult classic.<ref name="Staff_week.com">{{Citation |date=January 8, 2015 |title=When greed is not good |publisher=[[The Week]] |url=https://theweek.com/articles/511591/when-greed-not-good |access-date=28 April 2024}}</ref> He also helped Stone write the film ''[[W. (film)|W]]'' in 2008, about the life of US President [[George W. Bush|George Bush]]. The dialogue was positively received by [[Roger Ebert]] for not containing overtly "revisionist history."<ref name="RogerEbert_rogererbert.com">{{Citation |date=October 15, 2008 |title=Don't say "yes" until I'm finished talking |publisher=[[Roger Ebert]] |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/w-2008 |access-date=28 April 2024}}</ref>
Weiser's other projects include two civil rights dramas, developed as feature films, but made for television. ''[[Murder in Mississippi (film)|Murder in Mississippi]]'', 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 (film)|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, ''[[Fatherland (novel)|Fatherland]]'', by Robert Harris, for HBO. He wrote the NBC four-hour mini-series ''[[Witness to the Mob]]'' 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.<ref name="Fleming_deadline.com">{{Citation |last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr. |year=2013 |title=Cannes: Stanley Weiser To Script 'Three Graves Full' |publisher=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]] |url=https://deadline.com/2013/05/stanley-weiser-to-script-three-graves-full-493970/ |access-date=28 April 2024}}</ref>
==Personal life== He is married and lives in [[Santa Monica, California]]. He is a founding member of the West Los Angeles Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center.
==Filmography== *''[[Street Scenes 1970]]'' (1970) *''[[Coast to Coast (1980 film)|Coast to Coast]]'' (1980) *''[[Project X (1987 film)|Project X]]'' (1987) *''[[Wall Street (1987 film)|Wall Street]]'' (1987) *''[[Murder in Mississippi (film)|Murder in Mississippi]]'' (1990) *''[[Fatherland (1994 film)|Fatherland]]'' (1994) *''[[Witness to the Mob]]'' (1998) *''[[Freedom Song (film)|Freedom Song]]'' (2000) *''[[Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story]]'' (2003) *''[[W. (film)|W.]]'' (2008)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0007140}} *[http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/exclusive_w_truths_with_screenwriter_stanley_weiser_20081027/ Interview] on ''[[W. (film)|W.]]''
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