Adam Simon (born February 6, 1962) is an American director, producer,
and screenwriter. His directing credits include Brain Dead (1990),
Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger (1992), and Carnosaur
(1993). Simon, along with producer Brannon Braga, co-created the
television series Salem. As a screenwriter, Simon is known for Bones
(2001), and The Haunting in Connecticut (2009).He plays a humorous
version of himself, pitching a project and getting barred from the
studio lot in the famous opening-shot of Robert Altman's The Player
(1992). He previously appeared, thinly veiled, as a fictional
character in Christopher Guest's film The Big Picture (1989) and would
reappear in Kim Newman's novel Johnny Alucard (2013), where he again
pitches a project and becomes the only person in Hollywood standing up
to a particularly sinister studio executive.Kim Newman has noted that
Adam Simon has "become one of the most oft-cited figures in
contemporary Hollywood satire, and those in the know have begun to
play the game of Simon-spotting. [...] Remarkable look- and act-alikes
for Adam Simon have appeared in a couple of sinister Hollywood
satires: Adam Rafkin (Jarrad Paul) on the cancelled-too-soon TV series
Action, who ruins his emotional and physical health on successive
drafts of Beverly Hills Gun Club for sleazy überproducer Peter Dragon
(Jay Mohr); and Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) in David Lynch's
Mulholland Drive, who finds his entire life - and film project -
jeopardised when he considers going against the wishes of backers who
represent either organised crime or Hell."
and screenwriter. His directing credits include Brain Dead (1990),
Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger (1992), and Carnosaur
(1993). Simon, along with producer Brannon Braga, co-created the
television series Salem. As a screenwriter, Simon is known for Bones
(2001), and The Haunting in Connecticut (2009).He plays a humorous
version of himself, pitching a project and getting barred from the
studio lot in the famous opening-shot of Robert Altman's The Player
(1992). He previously appeared, thinly veiled, as a fictional
character in Christopher Guest's film The Big Picture (1989) and would
reappear in Kim Newman's novel Johnny Alucard (2013), where he again
pitches a project and becomes the only person in Hollywood standing up
to a particularly sinister studio executive.Kim Newman has noted that
Adam Simon has "become one of the most oft-cited figures in
contemporary Hollywood satire, and those in the know have begun to
play the game of Simon-spotting. [...] Remarkable look- and act-alikes
for Adam Simon have appeared in a couple of sinister Hollywood
satires: Adam Rafkin (Jarrad Paul) on the cancelled-too-soon TV series
Action, who ruins his emotional and physical health on successive
drafts of Beverly Hills Gun Club for sleazy überproducer Peter Dragon
(Jay Mohr); and Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) in David Lynch's
Mulholland Drive, who finds his entire life - and film project -
jeopardised when he considers going against the wishes of backers who
represent either organised crime or Hell."
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