Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
| Scott Alexander | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 16, 1963 Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. |
| Alma mater | USC School of Cinematic Arts |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Children | 3 |
| Larry Karaszewski | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 20, 1961 South Bend, Indiana, U.S.A. |
| Alma mater | USC School of Cinematic Arts |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1990–present |
Scott Alexander (born June 16, 1963, Los Angeles, California) and Larry Karaszewski (born November 20, 1961, South Bend, Indiana) are an American screenwriting team. They met at the University of Southern California where they were roommates; they graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts in 1985.
Their first success was the popular but critically derided comedy Problem Child (1990). Alexander and Karaszewski claim that their original screenplay was a sophisticated black comedy, but that the studio watered it down into an unrecognizable state.
In 1994, Alexander and Karaszewski persuaded Tim Burton to direct a biopic about Edward D. Wood, Jr. They wrote the screenplay in six weeks.
Ed Wood led to a succession of offbeat biopics, including The People vs. Larry Flynt; Man on the Moon, about the short life of comedian Andy Kaufman; and Auto Focus, chronicling the downfall and subsequent murder of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane, which they produced. A script they penned about the life of Robert Ripley of Ripley's Believe It or Not! was at one time attached to Jim Carrey, but like their scripts about The Marx Brothers, The Village People, Sid and Marty Krofft and Rollen Stewart a.k.a. "Rainbow Man", it has yet to be produced.
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