Mike Le

Mike Le
Mike Le at SDCC 2015
Born	United States
Occupation	Screenwriter, producer

Mike Le is an American screenwriter, director, producer, editor, comic book writer and illustrator. He created, directed, and served as executive producer on the web series K-Town and its subsequent "spin off" series, Roll Models. He has also written the feature-length screenplays to the films Dark Summer (directed by Paul Solet) and Patient Zero with Oscar-Winning filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky attached to direct, and Natalie Dormer, Matt Smith, and Stanley Tucci starring. In 2015, Variety selected Mike Le for their annual 10 Screenwriters To Watch list.

Le wrote and co-executive produced the feature horror film Dark Summer (2014), directed by Paul Solet and starring Keir Gilchrist, Stella Maeve, Maestro Harrell, Grace Phipps, and Peter Stormare. The film is "a stylized modern ghost story" and "follows the tale of a 17-year-old on house arrest for the summer. When his mother is away on business, a horrifying incident occurs, followed by an even more terrifying presence in the house."

Screen Gems recently acquired Le's script Patient Zero or "Patient Z" after a bidding war - the script is described as a character-driven action thriller, and features "a protagonist with the ability to speak the language of the undead who interrogates zombies with the hopes of finding Patient Zero and a cure for his infected wife." Those familiar with Le's script described it as containing "a rich mythology" with the potential to reinvent the zombie genre just as Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 28 Days Later did in 2002, and one account described the film as being similar to Interview with a Vampire but with zombies instead of vampires, and another account described it as being similar to the original ideas from Warm Bodies and The Walking Dead. The script was also ranked #5 on the "Blood List," a "Black List"-like list for unproduced films in the thriller, sci-fi and horror genres.