Biography
American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for creating the Purge franchise, writing all five films in the series and directing the first three, The Purge (2013), The Purge: Anarchy (2014), and The Purge: Election Year (2016).
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Home
2025
Writer, Director
A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building ...
Crisis Negotiators
2024
Original Story
Negotiator expert Cheuk Man Wai unexpectedly becomes the prime suspect in a murder case. Forced into a corner, he occupies the police station, taking ...
This Is the Night
2021
Screenplay, Director
In the summer of 1982, as all of Staten Island anticipates the opening of a blockbuster boxing movie, an Italian-American family must confront its gre...
The Forever Purge
2021
Producer, Characters, Writer
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they c...
The Purge: Behind The Series
2018
as Self
In an altered United States, several unrelated people discover how far they will go to survive a night during which all crime is legal for 12 hours. A...
The First Purge
2018
Characters, Executive Producer, Writer
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggressio...
The Purge: Election Year
2016
Characters, Director, Writer
Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Ro...
The Purge: Anarchy
2014
Director, Writer, Characters
One night per year, the government sanctions a 12-hour period in which citizens can commit any crime they wish -- including murder -- without fear of ...
The Purge
2013
Writer, Director
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During on...
Staten Island
2009
Director, Writer
Sully is desperate to give his unborn son the chance he never had. Jasper wants to escape the mobsters that have infiltrated his life and business. Pa...
Skinwalkers
2006
Screenplay
Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-re...
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
Screenplay, Co-Producer
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and crim...
Hate
2005
Writer
A look inside the Hate Crimes Unit of the NYPD
The Negotiator
1998
Screenplay
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elabo...
Jack
1996
Screenplay
Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10 year old boy looks like a 40 year old man. After y...