Derek Weissbein

Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Editor, Director and Producer

Los Angeles, California

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About Derek

Professional screenwriter located in Los Angeles. My script, LAYLA, about Eric Clapton, was featured on the 2016 Hollywood Blacklist and was optioned by LBI Entertainment and John Lesher of Le Grisbi Productions (Birdman). I was hired by Maven Pictures and actress/producer Olivia Cooke to adapt the non-fiction novel, COURTING DANGER, about tennis-pro-turned-WW2-spy, Alice Marble. I currently have a sci-fi feature in development with director Jessica M. Thompson (Netflix's The Invitation) and producer Ben Stillman attached.

I am also a freelance producer/director/editor. I am represented by Brendan Kenney of Mad Delusion.

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The Black List
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The Hit List
(2016)
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Mental Horror After her sister’s death, a guilt-ridden teen is sent to a remote mental health rehab center where she navigates tenuous group dynamics and fights to survive a masked killer who’s picking off the kids one by one.
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Music ⋄ Biography After becoming friends with the mysterious Beatle, George Harrison, guitar god Eric Clapton becomes infatuated with his new friend's wife, Pattie Boyd.
Vessels Sci-fi ⋄ Romance When a couple discovers they can recapture their honeymoon phase by inhabiting the bodies of others, they begin playing an addictive game to reinvigorate their monotonous relationship while ignoring the ethical and physical implications.
Residential Drama After a traumatic incident with a high-profile client puts his business’ future in peril, Dallas Well, a gifted therapist and co-owner of a teen mental health treatment center in Malibu, must navigate a PR nightmare and a corporate merger.
Dog Moms Comedy Four women are brought together after adopting dogs from the same litter of rescues. When one of the dogs goes missing, they band together to find her, forming an unlikely friendship in the process.
Touch of Grey Drama ⋄ Comedy After their rabbi father doesn’t arrive at his business trip destination, a family embarks on a cross-country journey with their estranged uncle to find him forcing everyone involved to strike a balance in their own lives.
Paradise Thriller ⋄ Crime While docked in a Croatian port town for two weeks, a rigid neurodivergent Naval officer grows infatuated with a beautiful woman, whose subsequent disappearance leads him down the rabbit hole of European sex-trafficking.
Black Action ⋄ Adventure After one of the world’s top pharmaceutical researchers uncovers she’s working for a nefarious company, she must convince a black-ops agent that he’s dying so that he will help her sneak back into the U.S from Switzerland.
The Invisible Woman Thriller ⋄ Horror Inspired by HG Wells' The Invisible Man.After her brotherʼs suicide and father's disappearance, a Hollywood make-up artist returns to her hometown for answers but instead finds herself in a cat-and-mouse game with with an unseen force driving her down the same rabbit hole that may have killed her brother.
Apple Tree Drama ⋄ Crime After nearly going broke on unsuccessful in-vitro procedures, Frank Bruchs and his wife move back to his hometown to the broken and twisted family he left behind 15 years ago. History repeats itself in this story that spans two generations of the lies and secrets that drive this small-town family deeper into emotional fragility.
O Father Thriller ⋄ Horror After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, David wearily journeys into the mountains with his rebellious son in hopes of instilling some discipline in him. While the family reunites, David is haunted by confusing memories of violence from his childhood and begins to doubt his father's intentions.
The Fall: Manhattan Thriller ⋄ Horror Tired of living a broke academia-oriented life, a straight-laced man visits his childhood friend who has promised him a coveted interview at his wall-street firm but instead is taken on a haunted journey through Manhattan on Halloween night.
Vacation Romance ⋄ Drama A pragmatic doctor with little faith in humanity prefers to dwell in the eerily comforting microscopic realm, where he is master of his domain. But his worldview is upended when he decides to go on the English walking tour his wife had been planning before her murder three years earlier.