Eric Heisserer is a screenwriter and author. In 2016, he wrote and produced hit feature Lights Out at New Line based on the short film by David F. Sandberg. Lawrence Grey and James Wan were also co-producers on the project and David F. Sandberg directed.
He made his directorial debut in 2013 with the film Hours, which he also wrote, starring Paul Walker and Génesis Rodríguez. His other feature film work also includes Final Destination 5, The Thing (2011) and the Nightmare on Elm Street remake.
Heisserer's books include the recent "150 Screenwriting Challenges." He's written several short stories for the anthology site Popcorn Fiction, including "Hours," which became the template for the movie of the same name. And has written several of the personal stories he collected from Hurricane Katrina survivors.
Heisserer grew up in Oklahoma, where his father taught ancient history at Oklahoma University and took him on sabbaticals to rare and fascinating European locales. A self-described autodidact, Heisserer began his writing career in the mid-1990s in the tabletop game market, but he broke in as a screenwriter with an online epistolary story called "The Dionaea House," a series of letters from the fictional Mark Condry to the author. (For the ten-year anniversary of "The Dionaea House", he released an online companion story called "Exposure" on Reddit, which sold preemptively to Neal Moritz.) Warner Bros. bought the rights to "The Dionaea House," which led to screenwriting jobs with Paramount, Warners, CBS and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
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