Neil Landau is an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and director. His film and television credits include the teen comedy Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Melrose Place, The Magnificent Seven, Doogie Howser, M.D., The Secret World of Alex Mack and MTV's Undressed. He has developed numerous one-hour drama TV pilots for several studios and networks including Warner Bros., Touchstone, CBS, ABC Family, and Lifetime, and has written movies for Universal Pictures, Disney, Columbia Pictures, and 20th Century Fox.
He is currently rewriting an animated feature based on the popular “Tadeo Jones†comic books for El Toro and Warner Bros. Pictures, for whom he also worked as executive script consultant on the film Lope, which was short-listed for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film. He is slated as executive script consultant for the upcoming El Toro/Universal Pictures film "Bruc".
Neil has also worked internationally as both co-head-writer and executive script consultant on television and film projects for Sony Pictures Television International, Freemantle Media, and Intereconomia.
Neil recently served as Executive Vice-President of Scripted Development for Amedia Film Group located in Moscow, working with writers, creative producers, story editors, and studio executives, guiding a slate of original projects including feature films, animation, miniseries, made-for-television movies, one-hour drama series, situation comedies, soap operas, and historical docudramas.
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