Ed Solomon

Edward James Solomon born September 15 1960 is an American filmmaker He is best known for writing the screenplays to Bill Teds Excellent Adventure 1989 Men in Black 1997 and Now You See Me 2013 Solomon grew up in suburban Boston until his family moved to California He went to UCLA and majored in economics while beginning his career as a joke writer standup comedian and playwright While still in college he was a staff writer for Laverne Shirleymaking him at the time the youngest member of the Writers Guild of America He then spent three years writing the cult Showtime TV series Its Garry Shandlings Show before venturing into feature films in the 1980s He helped create and cowrite the critically acclaimed comedies Bill Teds Excellent Adventure and Bill Teds Bogus Journey with Chris Matheson Solomon also worked on a number of hit franchise films including Men in Black Charlies Angels and then writing the Now You See Me films Solomon worked on an early version of a Universal The Invisible Man remake with Johnny Depp In March 2016 he completed production on Mosaic a 12hour longform TV project for HBO in collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh This production would mark the first in a series of collaborations with Soderbergh including the neonoir film No Sudden Move in 2021 and more recently the crime series Full Circle which premiered July 13 2023 He married Cynthia Cleese daughter of Connie Booth and John Cleese in 1995 They have two children and divorced in 2011 Solomon is Jewish Description above from the Wikipedia article Ed Solomon licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia