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Name
  
John Glenn


Role
  
Screenwriter

John Glenn (screenwriter) Writer John Glenn Signs Overall Deal With Uni TV Deadline

Full Name
  
John Patrick Glenn

Alma mater
  
Art Center College of Design

Occupation
  
Producer, Director, Screenwriter

Education
  
Art Center College of Design

Organization
  
Directors Guild of America

Residence
  
San Marino, California, United States

Movies
  
The Lazarus, Eagle Eye, Disaster!, Identity, Drift

Similar
  
Brooklynn Proulx, Bob Gunton, Lambert Wilson, Malcolm Goodwin, D J Caruso

John Patrick Glenn is an American screenwriter, producer, and director.

Glenn was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and worked as a musician prior to moving to Los Angeles. Glenn began his screenwriting career 2000, selling the spec script for the film Red World to Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney Pictures. Subsequently, Glenn worked on films including Journey to the Center of the Earth with producer Richard Zanuck, Clash of the Titans with producer Adam Schroeder and Law Abiding Citizen with director F. Gary Gray. In 2008, he wrote the original draft for the Steven Spielberg produced feature Eagle Eye which Spielberg had originally planned to direct. Also in 2008 - The Lazarus Project. Glenn has also worked on re-imaginings for Blade Runner with producer Bud Yorkin, and for The Warriors with director Tony Scott. Glenn has written and produced more than 15 television projects, which were sold to networks including ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox. In 2013, Glenn wrote and produced NBC's Hatfields & Mccoys.. During his television career, he has partnered with producers Mark Gordon, Bert Salke, Peter Chernin, and Anthony Zuiker. Other names he has worked with include M. Night Shyamalan, McG, Paul W.S. Anderson, Charlize Theron, Virginia Madsen, Sophia Bush, Jason O'Mara, and Angela Bassett. Glenn is currently in development on a new "Merlin", a franchise film and book property that reinvents Arthurian legend. This summer Glenn signed a new two-year deal to develop and write for Universal TV. His company, John Glenn Entertainment, is located on the Universal lot. Glenn attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and currently lives in San Marino, California with his wife and three kids.

References

John Glenn (screenwriter) Wikipedia