Brian Brightly

Brian Brightly began his career in development as a Story Analyst, and has been instrumental in the project development of movies at Disney, Universal Pictures and Dreamworks, including Fast & Furious, Bourne Identity, Munich, and Jarhead. He wrote INSIDE MAN: MOST WANTED and TREMORS: SHRIEKER ISLAND, for Universal 1440, distributed on Netflix. He is Executive Producing CARNIVAL for Sony International, and Associate Produced IRONCLAD for Mythic. One of few Westerners working now in Asia, he wrote the action film OPERATION WILD, an India-China co-production, for Renny Harlin, and is co-writing two action films for global star Wu Jing (WOLF WARRIOR, EARTH WANDERING). He delivered FOX HUNT for Fox International, a Hong Kong-based action film, and SHANGHAI STAR for Ivanhoe Pictures. He directed LIARS ALL about college antics gone awry, and has now directed THE WAKE, a tragi-comic story of a few, wayward men who must come to terms with their lives following the death of a best friend. He is repped by Fourth Wall's Jon Huddle for features.