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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. He has worked as a collaborator with Michael Colleary. The duo won a Saturn Award for Best Writing for Face/Off in 1998.
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Screenwriter
The New York Times lauded the Oscar-nominated film as "one the 1,000 greatest movies of all time," and Face/Off won the 1997 Best Screenplay statuette at the 24th annual Saturn Awards. 21st century accomplishments include being one of six credited screenwriters on "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" starring Angelina Jolie, and the WB's flashy flop TV ...
- Writer, Producer, Actor
- Mike Werb
Mini Bio. 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.
Jan 1, 2023 · Mike Werb and Michael Colleary first wrote Face/Off as a spec script, which is to say they weren’t commissioned to write it. However, they were able to sell the script to Warner Bros. in 1991.
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.
Jul 21, 2022 · First-time screenwriters Mike Werb and Michael Colleary told Inverse that the 1971 Attica Riot and the Jimmy Cagney classic "White Heat" inspired them to start their careers with a prison movie ...
Sep 10, 2019 · Watching it now, you can see that it walks that tightrope, with one foot dangling precariously over the edge. “I put in a bid for a house in Beverly Hills that had been accepted the day we started production,” says Mike Werb, “and I backed out of buying that house because I got completely paranoid: this movie is going to be a big flop.”