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Wesley Strick (born February 11, 1954) is an American screenwriter who has written such films as Arachnophobia, Wolf and Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear. Since 2015, Strick has worked as a writer/executive producer on The Man in the High Castle.
True Believer (also released as Fighting Justice) is a 1989 American courtroom drama directed by Joseph Ruben, written by Wesley Strick, and starring James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Yuji Okumoto, Margaret Colin, and Kurtwood Smith.
May 31, 2019 · James Woods stars as brilliant lawyer Eddie Dodd, who’s become so disillusioned with the legal system over the years that he’s gone from defending civil rights activists in the 60s to bailing out scummy drug dealers in the 80s.
A former rock journalist, Strick had co-authored the script for ARACHNIPHOBIA when he was contacted to adapt the J. Lee Thompson thriller CAPE FEAR for Amblin Entertainment. On the film's set in 1991, Strick recalled how he first rejected the idea of working on the film.
His attorney Sam Bowden was appalled by Cady's crimes and hid evidence of the victim's promiscuity, which might have reduced Cady's sentence or even secured his acquittal. Bowden assumes that Cady, who was illiterate at the time of the trial, is unaware of the shoddy defense he received.
Scorsese, with abundant help from Wesley Strick’s excellent screenplay, wanted to add some depth to the rather simplistic, black-and-white depiction of vigilante violence of the original, he chose to make the story more complex, to transform the characters into full-blooded human beings with flaws, guilt and inner conflicts.
Feb 12, 1989 · LEAD: ''I liked expressing the idea that there are second acts in American life,'' says 34-year-old Wesley Strick, who began his professional career as a music critic for Rolling Stone and has...
