# Stanley Weiser

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American screenwriter

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Stanley Weiser Born New York City, New York, United States Alma mater NYU Film School Occupation Screenwriter

**Stanley Weiser** is an American [screenwriter](/source/Screenwriter).[1]

## Biography

He was born in [New York City](/source/New_York_City). His screen credits include *[Wall Street](/source/Wall_Street_(1987_film))* and *[W.](/source/W._(film))*, both directed by [Oliver Stone](/source/Oliver_Stone).[1] He also wrote the 20th Century Fox film, *[Project X](/source/Project_X_(1987_film))*. He is credited for creating characters in the sequel to *Wall Street*: *[Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps](/source/Wall_Street%3A_Money_Never_Sleeps)*.

He wrote the screenplay for *[Project X](/source/Project_X_(1987_film))* with [Matthew Broderick](/source/Matthew_Broderick) in 1987.[2] Weiser was [Oliver Stone](/source/Oliver_Stone)'s screenwriting partner on the movie *[Wall Street](/source/Wall_Street_(1987_film))*, released in 1987 and a cult classic.[3] He also helped Stone write the film *[W](/source/W._(film))* in 2008, about the life of US President [George Bush](/source/George_W._Bush). The dialogue was positively received by [Roger Ebert](/source/Roger_Ebert) for not containing overtly "revisionist history."[4]

Weiser's other projects include two civil rights dramas, developed as feature films, but made for television. *[Murder in Mississippi](/source/Murder_in_Mississippi_(film))*, 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](/source/Freedom_Song_(film))*, 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](/source/Fatherland_(novel))*, by Robert Harris, for HBO. He wrote the NBC four-hour mini-series *[Witness to the Mob](/source/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.[5]

## Personal life

He is married and lives in [Santa Monica, California](/source/Santa_Monica%2C_California). He is a founding member of the West Los Angeles Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center.

## Filmography

- *[Street Scenes 1970](/source/Street_Scenes_1970)* (1970)

- *[Coast to Coast](/source/Coast_to_Coast_(1980_film))* (1980)

- *[Project X](/source/Project_X_(1987_film))* (1987)

- *[Wall Street](/source/Wall_Street_(1987_film))* (1987)

- *[Murder in Mississippi](/source/Murder_in_Mississippi_(film))* (1990)

- *[Fatherland](/source/Fatherland_(1994_film))* (1994)

- *[Witness to the Mob](/source/Witness_to_the_Mob)* (1998)

- *[Freedom Song](/source/Freedom_Song_(film))* (2000)

- *[Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story](/source/Rudy%3A_The_Rudy_Giuliani_Story)* (2003)

- *[W.](/source/W._(film))* (2008)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NYT_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NYT_1-1) ["Stanley Weiser"](https://web.archive.org/web/20131012081020/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/531129/Stanley-Weiser/filmography). Movies & TV Dept. *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. 2013. Archived from [the original](https://movies.nytimes.com/person/531129/Stanley-Weiser/filmography) on 2013-10-12.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Arogerebert_rogerebert.com_2-0)** Ebert, Roger (April 17, 1987), [*Project X*](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/project-x-1987), Roger Ebert, retrieved 28 April 2024

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Staff_week.com_3-0)** [*When greed is not good*](https://theweek.com/articles/511591/when-greed-not-good), [The Week](/source/The_Week), January 8, 2015, retrieved 28 April 2024

1. **[^](#cite_ref-RogerEbert_rogererbert.com_4-0)** [*Don't say "yes" until I'm finished talking*](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/w-2008), [Roger Ebert](/source/Roger_Ebert), October 15, 2008, retrieved 28 April 2024

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Fleming_deadline.com_5-0)** Fleming, Mike Jr. (2013), [*Cannes: Stanley Weiser To Script 'Three Graves Full'*](https://deadline.com/2013/05/stanley-weiser-to-script-three-graves-full-493970/), [Deadline](/source/Deadline_Hollywood), retrieved 28 April 2024

## External links

- [Stanley Weiser](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007140/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

- [Interview](http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/exclusive_w_truths_with_screenwriter_stanley_weiser_20081027/) on *[W.](/source/W._(film))*

v t e Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Long Form – Original Michael Crichton (1996) Richard Alfieri and Susan Nanus (1997) Robert Inman (1998) Nina Shengold (1999) Jerry Ludwig (2000) Phil Alden Robinson and Stanley Weiser / Tina Andrews (2001) Loring Mandel (2002) Hugh Whitemore and Larry Ramin (2003) Larry Gelbart (2004) Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell (2005) Margaret Nagle (2006) Nevin Schreiner (2007) Bryce Zabel and Jackie Zabel (2008) Danny Strong (2009) Michael Cristofer (2010) Peter Morgan (2011) David Seltzer (2012) Bill Kerby, Ted Mann, and Ronald Parker (2013) No Award (2014) Melissa Carter (2015) Seth Fisher, Walon Green, Chip Johannessen, and Eric Overmyer (2016) Susannah Grant (2017) Barbara Stepansky (2018) Marc Bernardin, Scott Brown, Lila Byock, Mark Lafferty, Sam Shaw, Dustin Thomason, Gina Welch, and Vinnie Wilhelm (2019) Craig Mazin (2020) Tanya Barfield, Joshua Griffith, Sharon Hoffman, Boo Killebrew, Micah Schraft, April Shih, and Dahvi Waller (2021) Brad Ingelsby (2022)

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