An established Hollywood screenwriter and novelist whose credits include Arachnophobia, True Believer, Final Analysis, Wolf, A Nightmare on Elm Streetand the Martin Scorsese remake of Cape Fear. As a “script doctor” he has done production polishes on such films as Batman Returns, Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2. Strick wrote the original script for Tim Burton’s unproduced Superman Lives. His first novel Out There in the Dark was published by St. Martin’s Publishing Group and his second novel Whirlybird is available as a Kindle book. Since 1995, Wesley has served as a creative advisor at the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab. Strick is a writer/executive producer on the Amazon drama series, The Man in the High Castle. On this episode he talks about collaborating on projects with Tim Burton, studying creative writing with poet Thom Gunn and his early days as a rock journalist for Rolling Stone, Circus and Creem.