D. B. Weiss
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Weiss in 2016
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Daniel Brett Weiss April 23, 1971 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, screenwriter, producer, director |
| Spouse(s) | Andrea Troyer |
| Children | 2 |
Daniel Brett Weiss (born April 23, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, producer, and director. Along with his collaborator David Benioff, he is best known as screenwriter, executive producer, and sometimes director of Game of Thrones, the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's series of books A Song of Ice and Fire.
His 2003 debut novel, Lucky Wander Boy, is themed around video games.
Weiss was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. His family is Jewish. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University. He earned a Master of Philosophy in Irish literature from Trinity College, Dublin with a thesis on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Weiss worked as personal assistant on films such as The Viking Sagas for New Line Cinema. For a brief period, Weiss also worked as a personal assistant for Glenn Frey. Weiss then went to Dublin in 1995 to study Anglo-Irish literature and met David Benioff, and three years later they met again in Santa Monica, California around 1998.
Weiss and Benioff wrote a screenplay for a film titled The Headmaster together, but it was never made. In 2003, Weiss and Benioff were hired to collaborate on a new script of Orson Scott Card's book Ender's Game in consultation with the then-designated director Wolfgang Petersen. It was not used.
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