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Gilbert Adler

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Gilbert Adler (born in New York City, February 14, 1946)[1] is an American film producer who has collaborated with several notable filmmakers including Richard Donner, Brian De Palma, Walter Hill, Todd Phillips, and Bryan Singer.

In 1999, Adler—along with Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver—formed Dark Castle Entertainment, a film production label formerly affiliated with Warner Bros.

Career

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Adler's career spans several decades, film genres, and jobs. He began as a producer and helped shepherd Brian De Palma's low-budget family comedy feature Home Movies to the screen. The next few years weren't particularly auspicious; Adler continued working in the modest-budget sphere. In 1985 he produced the Stephen Gyllenhaal thriller Certain Fury, and the military comedy Basic Training. Over the next decade Adler found more work as he branched out into other film jobs and also found work in TV. For example, in addition to producing over 40 episodes of the horror anthology Freddy's Nightmares (1998), he directed one and wrote four of the episodes. He repeated this trifecta soon afterwards in a new job, the similar Tales From the Crypt (1991). In 1998, Adler directed one episode of the teen witch series Charmed, and for the re-imagining of the tropics-set drama Fantasy Island. It is in movies that Alder generally has concentrated his efforts, however. Working often, he's received producer credit on a raft of features, including the '06 superhero reboot "Superman Returns" and "Valkyrie,"[2] a biopic about would-be Hitler assassin Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, starring Tom Cruise.[3]

Filmography

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He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

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Year Film Credit
1979 Home Movies
1985 Certain Fury
Basic Training
1995 Demon Knight
1996 Bordello of Blood
1997 Double Tap
1999 House on Haunted Hill
2001 Thirteen Ghosts
2002 Ghost Ship
2004 Starsky & Hutch Executive producer
2005 Constantine Executive producer
2006 Superman Returns
2008 Valkyrie
2010 Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
2018 Evil Nature Executive producer
2021 Buckley's Chance
TBA Mirkwood Executive producer
Untitled Joe Louis Project
As writer
Year Film
1992 Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
1996 Bordello of Blood
As director
Year Film
1996 Bordello of Blood
As an actor
Year Film Role
1985 Basic Training Security Guard

Television

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Year Title Credit Notes
1987 The Hitchhiker
1988−90 Freddy's Nightmares
1990 Hollywood Dog Television film
1995 W.E.I.R.D. World Co-executive producer Television film
1991−96 Tales from the Crypt
1997 Perversions of Science
1999−2000 The Strip Co-executive producer
2014 Intelligence
2019 Then Again with Herbie J Pilato Executive producer
TBA The 'E' Division Executive producer
As writer
Year Title Notes
1988−90 Freddy's Nightmares
1991 Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories
1995 W.E.I.R.D. World Television film
1991−96 Tales from the Crypt
1997 Perversions of Science
As director
Year Title
1990 Freddy's Nightmares
1992−93 Tales from the Crypt
1997 Perversions of Science
1998 Fantasy Island
Charmed
Miscellaneous crew
Year Title Role
1987 Vietnam War Story Executive in charge of production for HBO
1994 Tales from the Crypt Crypt keeper sequences director
As an actor
Year Title Role
1987 The Hitchhiker Phil Murgo
1989 Freddy's Nightmares Max's Dad
Second unit director or assistant director
Year Title Role
1994 Tales from the Crypt Crypt keeper sequences director

References

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  1. ^ "Rotten Tomatoes: Movies | TV Shows | Movie Trailers | Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
  2. ^ "Gilbert Adler and Joel Eisenberg Sign TV and Film First-Look Deal with Aethon Books, Developing Rhett C. Bruno's "The Roach"". www.businesswire.com. May 13, 2021. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
  3. ^ "Gil Adler | Biography and Filmography". October 18, 2015. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
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