Alan published his first novel, a gripping spy thriller, last year and has adapted it to a screenplay, which received the grand prize at the 2018 New York Screenplay Contest. He has also written a biopic drama about a Mark Rothko painting that surfaced in L.A. and the man who found it. He also is developing a madcap action comedy thriller about a global warming conspiracy, as well as a World War II memoir about his father's experiences escaping Nazi Germany and working for the O.S.S. as a U.S. Army interrogator during the Battle of the Bulge. He lives with his wife and four children in Washington, DC.
Ritchie Boy War ⋄ Biography Inspired by true events, an Austrian concentration camp survivor who has escaped the clutches of a sadistic comandante is trained as a U.S. Army O.S.S. interrogator only to be captured at the Battle of the Bulge by the same comandante who tortured him.
Climate Changed Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Comedy When an all-talk-but-no-action environmentalist is forced to work for a fossil fuel conglomerate and learns that his new girlfriend may be running a global warming cover-up of a cataclysmic environmental disaster, he rounds up misfit coworkers to expose the truth.
Rigged Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller An aggrieved chemist stricken with buyer’s remorse over a weapon of mass destruction she created is an unwilling pawn in a mind-bending manipulation run by a ruthless arms dealer who exploits her guilt and failing memory to steal the weapon’s deadly formula.
No. 7 Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Biography As a free-spirited gardener charms his way into the lives of two elderly sisters, he challenges the art establishment when he tries to authenticate a priceless Mark Rothko painting, but is unable to rein in obsessive behavior that not only puts the sisters’ assets at risk, but also destroys his own sanity.
Chemical Attraction Budget: $30M+ | Action ⋄ Thriller When a CIA operative falls for a brilliant heroin addict who created a cataclysmic weapon of mass destruction that's to be sold at an auction in New York City, he must choose between saving her life or completing his mission.
Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Competition - Quarterfinalist
(2018)