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[edit] Torus Tammer

[edit] HISTORY

Torus Tammer was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1969. Tammer dreamt of being a film maker from early childhood...often making his own plays and videos where amongst other things, he performed and filmed his own stunts. He moved from Australia to Los Angeles in 1992 and started out working odd jobs on low budget films. During this period, he met film producers Mike Erwin and Max Kirishima. Erwin and Kirishima hired Tammer to work for their production company, Den Pictures. While at Den, Tammer worked on the development of a remake of the classic cult film Easy Rider (the rights to which Den Pictures owned). With the encouragement of Erwin and Kirishima, Tammer began developing two pet projects (Golgo 13 and Preacher). Both projects were adaptations of comic books; "Golgo 13" (AKA The Professional) by the legendary Japanese comic book artist Takao Saito and "Preacher" which at the time, was a cutting edge new series for Vertigo/DC comics created by Garth Ennis. Both projects never made it through the development phase and Tammer, who at this point was frustrated, decided to go it alone. In 1995, Tammer worked in development Valerie Kearns at HBI Pictures (owned at the time by screenwriter James V. Hart). After a short stint where he gained immeasurable knowledge and experience, In 1996, Tammer decided it was time to make his own film so he wrote and directed his first short subject film titled “Lone Greasers”. Greasers was a crucial step in his career because it is here that he also met life long friend and producing partner Daniel Dubiecki. Dubiecki produced Lone Greasers which starred an ensemble cast of veteran character actors including John Doe and Peter Dobson. Tammer continued writing and directing until 1999 at which point, he decided to focus solely on his writing career.

From 1999-2001, Tammer worked as a writer for the LA Times where he won acclaim for his investigative work where he exposed corrupt police officer and politician Charles "Chuck" Conlosh. After his stint with the LA Times, Tammer continued working as a freelance writer.

[edit] CURRENTLY

In 2004, Tammer and partner Daniel Dubiecki optioned the best selling Australian true crime novels “Undercover” and "White Lies". Tammer and Dubiecki are currently developing the feature film adaptation of Undercover.