James Greer (writer)


James Greer is an American novelist, screenwriter, musician, and critic. As a screenwriter, he is known for writing the children's comedies Max Keeble's Big Move, Just My Luck and The Spy Next Door, as well as the 2018 thriller Unsane. He lives in Los Angeles.

Career as a musician/critic

Greer was senior editor and senior writer at Spin magazine in New York City in the early 1990s.
He wrote and played on the song "Trendspotter Acrobat" on the album Sunfish Holy Breakfast by Guided By Voices.
Greer started a band in 2012 with French musician Lola G. called DTCV. In April 2016 the band released its fourth studio album, entitled Confusion Moderne, on Xemu Records.

Career as a novelist/author

Greer has published two novels, Artificial Light and The Failure. Artificial Light won a California Book Award Silver Medal for First Fiction.
In 2013 Greer released his first book of short fiction, titled Everything Flows, via Curbside Splendor. Publisher Weekly said of the book "Halfway between the mind of God and a vivid dream, Everything Flows is proof that there remain new places to go, both on paper and in the known universe."

Career as a screenwriter

Greer has written or co-written several movies, including Max Keeble's Big Move, Just My Luck starring Lindsay Lohan, the Jackie Chan vehicle The Spy Next Door and Unsane, directed by Steven Soderbergh, and starring Claire Foy and Juno Temple. In February 2018, Deadline Hollywood reported that Greer was set to write a script called Planet Kill for Soderbergh to produce.