Dan Harris co-wrote the blockbuster “X2: X-Men United” at the age of 22 for director Bryan Singer, an assignment offered to him after the director read the screenplay for IMAGINERY HEROES. X2 starred Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen and Halle Berry and opened with a domestic weekend gross of $85 million before grossing $415 million worldwide. In the same year, his photography was published by New York fashion landmark Visionaire, and he was honored as one of Variety’s top 10 screenwriters to watch.
Before getting his bachelors degree from Columbia University, Harris’ short film “Urban Chaos Theory” won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the NoDance Film Festival and has been distributed on DVD. The following winter, his short film, “The Killing of Candice Klein,” played to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival.
Upon graduation from Columbia in 2001, Harris won the Louis B. Sudler prize in the arts for his screenplay, “America’s Least Wanted” – the only time a screenplay has ever won. Just months after graduating from college and moving to Los Angeles, Harris and writing partner Michael Dougherty sold their first pitch, a horror film, to Phoenix Pictures.
Dan was born and raised in Pennsylvania. When he was seventeen, Woody Allen accidentally hit him with a tennis ball and he has wanted to be a movie director ever since.
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