Mike Le

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Mike Le
Born United States
Occupation Screenwriter, producer

Mike Le is an American screenwriter, director, producer, editor, comic book writer and illustrator. He serves as a director, creative director and executive producer on the web series K-Town and its subsequent "spin off" series, Roll Models. He has also written the feature length screenplays to the films Dark Summer (directed by Paul Solet) and Patient Zero.

Screenwriting

Le wrote and executive produced the feature horror film Dark Summer (2014), directed by Paul Solet and starring Peter Stormare, Stella Maeve, Grace Phipps, Keir Gilchrist and Maestro Harrell.[1][2][3] The film is "a stylized modern ghost story" and "follows the tale of a 17-year-old on house arrest for the summer. When his mother is away on business, a horrifying incident occurs, followed by an even more terrifying presence in the house."[4][5][6]

Screen Gems recently acquired Le's script "Patient Zero" or "Patient Z" after a bidding war - the script is described as a character-driven action thriller, and features "a protagonist with the ability to speak the language of the undead who interrogates zombies with the hopes of finding Patient Zero and a cure for his infected wife."[7] Those familiar with Le's script described it as containing "a rich mythology" with the potential to reinvent the zombie genre just as Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 28 Days Later did in 2002, and one account described the film as being similar to Interview with a Vampire but with zombies instead of vampires, and another account described it as being similar to the original ideas from Warm Bodies and The Walking Dead. The script was also ranked #5 on the "Blood List," a "Black List"-like list for unproduced films in the thriller, sci-fi and horror genres.[8]

Le has also written a screenplay adaptation of Isaac Adamson's novel, Tokyo Suckerpunch aka Tokyo Suckerpunch: A Billy Chaka Adventure for Fox Searchlight, where at one time both Anne Hathaway and Tobey Macguire were attached to star in - the project is currently at Sony Pictures Entertainment.[9]

Le also co-wrote the screenplay to the thriller war film, W.M.D., directed by Richard Halpern and starring Tom Kiesche, John Posey and Leila Birch.

Le also wrote the story for an episode of the TV/web series, How To, Batman! entitled "How To Get Out of the Friend Zone" (2010).

Directing, Producing & Editing

Le has directed and executive produced over 18 episodes of the web series K-Town. Le has also directed and executive produced over 8 episodes of the "spin-off" series to K-Town, a web series focusing on import car models entitled Roll Models.

Le has also produced a short film entitled Twirl directed by Mira Lew (about a baton twirler), and was an Executive Producer of the nonfiction documentary TV series, First In.

Le has also served as an Assistant Editor on an episode of the reality TV series More to Love in 2009.

Comic Book Writing

Le has teamed up with the creator of The Walking Dead comic book (which The Walking Dead TV series was based on), Robert Kirkman, to write the bestselling comic book series Mayhem! for Image Comics.

Le also is the writer, creator, illustrator and producer of a webcomic about Hollywood and screenwriting entitled "Don't Forget To Validate Your Parking".[10]

Other Work

Le was the personal assistant to Owen Wilson on films such as The Royal Tenenbaums, Meet The Parents, Shanghai Noon, Rushmore and more. He was also the personal assistant to Director Wes Anderson on films such as The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore. He was actually discovered by Wilson when he was working at a Blockbuster Video - Wilson, still relatively young in his career, asked Le where to find certain films and was impressed by how fast he responded, signaling to Wilson that Le had a good mind for names, titles and concepts.[citation needed]

Le is also the founder and host of the Hollywood think-tank, The Avalon Table. He previously served as the Vice President of HQ Pictures, the film & TV production company of Tyrese Gibson.

Le is also a regular contributor to the taste-maker blog GeekWeek.com.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Stuart Kemp, Cannes: Paul Solet to Direct Supernatural Horror Film 'Dark Summer', The Hollywood Reporter
  2. ↑ Comingsoon.net
  3. ↑ Kevin Woods, Stella Maeve snags lead in Paul Solet's Dark Summer, Joblo.com
  4. ↑ Stuart Kemp, Cannes: Paul Solet to Direct Supernatural Horror Film 'Dark Summer', The Hollywood Reporter
  5. ↑ Dave McNary, Paul Solet Directing Dark Summer: Ghost story to shoot in September, Variety
  6. ↑ Todd Brown, GRACE Director Paul Solet Gears Up DARK SUMMER,Twitch
  7. ↑ Jeff Sneider, Screen Gems Wins Bidding War for Mike Le’s Zombie Script ‘Patient Zero’ (Exclusive), The Wrap
  8. ↑ Jen Yamato, ‘Ink And Bone’ Tops 2013 Blood List – The Black List For Genre Scripts, Deadline.com
  9. ↑ Brendon Connelly, Anne Hathaway To Edit, Romance Tobey Maguire in Tokyo Suckerpunch, Slashfilm.com
  10. ↑ Dontforgettovalidateyourparking.com
  11. ↑ Geekweek.com

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