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Writer: Face/Off. A Los Angeles native, Mike Werb received his undergraduate degrees from Stanford, where he majored in one thing after another. He put his costly education to use by joining a New Wave garage band that never left the garage. Turning to writing, he began a burlesque climb up the well-greased Hollywood ladder by entering the UCLA ...
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Mike Werb is an American screenwriter, whose writing credits include Face/Off, The Mask and the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. A Los Angeles native, Werb attended Stanford. He is a UCLA Film School graduate.
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Mike Werb. Writer: Face/Off. A Los Angeles native, Mike Werb received his undergraduate degrees from Stanford, where he majored in one thing after another. He put his costly education to use by joining a New Wave garage band that never left the garage. Turning to writing, he began a burlesque climb up the well-greased Hollywood ladder by entering the UCLA Master's program in screenwriting. He ...
Mike Werb is an American screenwriter, whose writing credits include Face/Off, The Mask and the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. A Los Angeles native, Werb attended Stanford. He is a UCLA Film School graduate. His frequent collaborator is Michael Colleary. The duo won a Saturn Award for Best Writing for Face/Off in 1998.
Mike and Michael co-wrote and co-produced the international hit thriller “Face/Off,” directed by John Woo and starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The New York Times lauded the Oscar-nominated film as “one of the greatest movies of all time,” and Empire Magazine called it “the best action movie ever made.” “Face/Off” won the ...
Mike Werb, a UCLA Film School graduate, is one of Hollywood's top screenwriters. He has written two huge blockbusters, as a solo screenwriter, the Jim Carrey comedy, "The Mask" and with writing partner Michael Colleary, the John Travolta, Nicolas Cage hit, "Face/Off."