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Philip Eisner

 
Writer: Philip Eisner
  • Occupation: Writer
  • Active: 2000s
  • Major Genres: Science Fiction
  • Career Highlights: Event Horizon, Mutant Chronicles, Executive Order: Six
  • First Major Screen Credit: Event Horizon (1997)

Biography

Screenwriter for the science fiction/horror gorefest Event Horizon (which spent five years in limbo before being sold to Paramount and helmed by director Paul Anderson), Philip Eisner has had several other projects in various stages of development, most of them dealing with death and what lies beyond. He also turned in a draft for a cinematic adaptation of The Mutant Chronicles. ~ Steven E. McDonald, All Movie Guide
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Philip Eisner is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the 1997 science fiction/horror film Event Horizon, which was produced by Paramount and helmed by director Paul W.S. Anderson.

Eisner also wrote Firestarter: Rekindled for the Sci Fi Channel, which was produced in 2002. In early 2005, Scott Rudin Productions acquired Eisner's supernatural thriller spec script Furious Angels[citation needed].

Eisner cowrote the screenplay for The Mutant Chronicles, which will be released in 2009 and stars Thomas Jane and John Malkovich. The film tells the tale of 28th century soldiers battling so-called "NecroMutants."

He also teaches several screenwriting courses at the UCLA extension.

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