Dan Weiss
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Weiss in 2016
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Daniel Brett Weiss April 23, 1971 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Television producer, television writer, novelist |
| Spouse(s) | Andrea Troyer |
| Children | 2 |
Daniel Brett Weiss (born April 23, 1971) is an American television producer and writer, and novelist. Along with his collaborator David Benioff, he is best known as co-creator and showrunner of Game of Thrones, the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's series of books A Song of Ice and Fire.
His 2003 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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