Adam Simon
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Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | February 6, 1962
Occupation | Director • screenwriter • producer |
Years active | 1989–present |
Adam Simon (born February 6, 1962) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. His directing credits include Brain Dead (1990), Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger (1992), and Carnosaur (1993). Simon, along with producer Brannon Braga, co-created the television series Salem. As a screenwriter, Simon is known for Bones (2001), The Haunting in Connecticut (2009), and Books of Blood (2020).
Career
[edit]He 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
[edit]Film
[edit]Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | ||
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Director | Producer | Writer | |||
Lock Up | 1989 | No | Co- | No | |
Brain Dead | 1990 | Yes | No | Yes | |
Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger | 1992 | Yes | No | No | |
Carnosaur | 1993 | Yes | No | Yes | |
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera | 1996 | Yes | No | Yes | Documentary film |
The American Nightmare | 2000 | Yes | No | Yes | Documentary film |
John Landis on: An American Werewolf in London | 2001 | Yes | No | No | Featurette |
Bones | 2001 | No | No | Yes | |
The Spectre of Hope | 2002 | No | Yes | No | Documentary film |
The Haunting in Connecticut | 2009 | No | No | Yes | |
Captive State | 2019 | No | Executive | No | |
Books of Blood | 2020 | No | Executive | Yes |
Television
[edit]Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | |||
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Creator | Director | Writer | Executive producer | |||
Directors on Directors | 1997 | No | Yes (1) | No | No | Docuseries, Episode "Simon - Corman" |
BlackBoxTV | 2012 | No | No | Yes (1) | No | Anthology series |
Salem[3] | 2014–17 | Yes | No | Yes (21) | Yes | |
Next | 2020 | No | No | Yes (3) | Co-executive | Co-executive producer (9 episodes) |
Actor
[edit]Title | Year | Role | Notes |
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The Unborn | 1991 | Priest | |
Bob Roberts | 1992 | Cutting edge head writer | |
The Player | 1992 | Adam Simon | |
Directors on Directors | 1997 | Himself | Docuseries, Episode "Simon - Corman" |
Digging Up Bones | 2002 | Himself | Featurette documentary |
Urban Gothic: Bones and Its Influences | 2002 | Himself | Featurette documentary |
The Brains Behind the Nightmare | 2020 | Himself | Featurette documentary |
Tales from the Cranium | 2020 | Himself | Featurette documentary |
References
[edit]- ^ Excerpt from "Johnny Alucard"
- ^ "Who Let Adam Simon on the Lot?" by Kim Newman
- ^ "Q&A: Executive Producer Adam Simon on "SALEM" and a Lovecraftian Second Season". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-30.
External links
[edit]- Adam Simon at IMDb