Adam Simon
Adam Simon (born 1962) is an American screenwriter and film director.
Appearances in fiction
Adam Simon plays a humorous version of himself, pitching a project and getting barred from the studio lot in the famous opening-shot of Robert Altman's The Player (1992). He previously appeared, thinly veiled, as a fictional character in Christopher Guest's film The Big Picture (1989) and would reappear in Kim Newman's novel Johnny Alucard (2013), where he again pitches a project and becomes the only person in Hollywood standing up to a particularly sinister studio executive.[1]
Kim Newman has noted that Adam Simon has "become one of the most oft-cited figures in contemporary Hollywood satire, and those in the know have begun to play the game of Simon-spotting. [...] Remarkable look- and act-alikes for Adam Simon have appeared in a couple of sinister Hollywood satires: Adam Rafkin (Jarrad Paul) on the cancelled-too-soon TV series Action, who ruins his emotional and physical health on successive drafts of Beverly Hills Gun Club for sleazy überproducer Peter Dragon (Jay Mohr); and Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, who finds his entire life - and film project - jeopardised when he considers going against the wishes of backers who represent either organised crime or Hell." [2]
Filmography
Writer
- The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)
- Bones (2001)
- The American Nightmare (2000)
- The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera (1996)
- Carnosaur (1993) (screenplay)
- Brain Dead
Director
- The American Nightmare (2000)
- The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera (1996)
- Carnosaur (1993)
- Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger (1992)
- Brain Dead (1990)
Producer
- Salem (2013-ongoing) (executive producer)[3]
- The Spectre of Hope (2000)
- Lock Up (1989) (co-producer)
Actor
- Bob Roberts (1992)
Self
- Diggin' Up 'Bones' (2002)
- Urban Gothic (2002)
- The Player (1992)