Mitch Glazer

Glazer's earliest documented screen credit is a minor acting role — listed as 'Man selling film to Mr. Mike' in Lorne Michaels' *Mr. Mike's Mondo Video* (1979), the cult NBC special that never actually aired on television (Wikipedia). A strange starting point. But it signals something about the circles he was moving in early on: comedy, countercultural, New York-adjacent media. The writing career took hold through the 1980s, culminating in *Scrooged* (1988), the Richard Donner-directed Bill Murray vehicle that reimagined Dickens' *A Christmas Carol* as a savage satire of network television. Glazer co-wrote the screenplay, and the film became a genuine holiday staple — the kind of movie that turns up on cable every December whether you asked for it or not. He also appeared briefly in the film as a guest, one of only two acting credits on his record (Wikipedia). From there, his writing work continued into the 1990s and 2000s with *Great Expectations* (1998) and the CIA thriller *The Recruit* (2003), starring Al Pacino and Colin Farrell. Glazer stepped into the director's chair for *Passion Play* (2010), a fantasy drama he also wrote, starring Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox — a film that received a complicated reception, to put it diplomatically. Then came *Magic City* (2012), the project that arguably represents the fullest expression of his ambitions. The Starz series, set in a glamorous and dangerous Miami hotel at the dawn of the 1960s, earned Glazer two Primetime Emmy nominations and ran for two seasons (Wikipedia). *Rock the Kasbah* (2015), another Murray collaboration directed by Barry Levinson, rounded out his most recent major writing credit. Across all of it, what you see is a writer-producer who's never been content to repeat himself — even when repeating himself might have been the safer commercial play.