Daniel Pyne

Film writer Daniel Pyne graduated from Stanford University, where he studied economics, and received an MFA from UCLA’s graduate School of Film, where he held the 2003–2004 Hunter–Zakin chair in screenwriting. He is also on the faculty of advisers for the Sundance Institute screenwriting labs.

Pacific Heights, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Michael Keaton and Melanie Griffith was Pyne’s first produced film. His feature directorial debut, Where’s Marlowe? was distributed by Paramount Classics in 1999, and won Best Comedy at the Santa Monica Film Festival. His retelling of Richard Condon’s The Manchurian Candidate, directed by Johnathan Demme, was released in July of 2004, garnered a Golden Globe nomination for Meryl Streep, and made several critics top ten lists. The film Fracture, based on Pyne’s original screenplay, will be released in the spring of 2007.

One of the original writers of the seminal TV series Miami Vice, Pyne also co–created the critically–lauded, indie–cult, mock–reality cop show, The Street. He is currently adapting Alfred Bester’s seminal sci–fi classic, The Stars My Destination for producer Lorenzo DiBonaventura, and preparing to direct his next film, a project with Philip Seymour Hoffman, from an original screenplay, Fifty Mice.