Adam Simon


Adam Simon is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. His directing credits include Brain Dead, Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger, and Carnosaur. Simon, along with producer Brannon Braga, co-created the television series Salem. As a screenwriter, Simon is known for Bones, and The Haunting in Connecticut.
He plays a humorous version of himself, pitching a project and getting barred from the studio lot in the famous opening-shot of Robert Altman's The Player. He previously appeared, thinly veiled, as a fictional character in Christopher Guest's film The Big Picture and would reappear in Kim Newman's novel Johnny Alucard, where he again pitches a project and becomes the only person in Hollywood standing up to a particularly sinister studio executive.
Kim Newman has noted that Adam Simon has "become one of the most oft-cited figures in contemporary Hollywood satire, and those in the know have begun to play the game of Simon-spotting. Remarkable look- and act-alikes for Adam Simon have appeared in a couple of sinister Hollywood satires: Adam Rafkin on the cancelled-too-soon TV series Action, who ruins his emotional and physical health on successive drafts of Beverly Hills Gun Club for sleazy überproducer Peter Dragon ; and Adam Kesher in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, who finds his entire life - and film project - jeopardised when he considers going against the wishes of backers who represent either organised crime or Hell."

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