Richard Lasser
Writing
Biography
I’m a professional screenwriter-for-hire who’s been chosen to write, rewrite or polish scripts for 30 different production companies and I’d love to help with any writing needs you may have. “Walking With the Enemy” (based on a true story and starring Academy Award Winning Best Actor Ben Kingsley) is the most notable of my 8 feature film writing credits. You can watch the film on YouTube. Most recently I was hired to write “Miranda’s Victim”, with Abigail Breslin, Luke Wilson, Andy Garcia and Donald Sutherland. I also wrote the horror/thriller feature, “The Counting House” starring Maggie Q (“Mission Impossible”). And I wrote the script for the feature film “The Tricks of Love”, starring Natasha Lyonne, (“Orange is the New Black”) which won Best Picture at the Monaco International Film Festival and 3 major acting awards. Following please find my bio and credits. Please tell me how I can help you with any of your projects. Cheers, Richard A. Lasser 310 990 5941 offyougo@gmail.com
Known For
Four employees of Island Fisheries come to a sun-scorched, isolated island to negotiate fishing rights with the sullen, paranoid islanders who have good reason to be afraid. Soon after the arrival of the four, a mysterious force the islanders thought was chained forever in the dark basement of the foreboding old Counting House is once again on the loose, savagely killing its women. Caught in a power struggle between rival island factions over how to stop the killing, the mainlanders are jailed. They manage to break out, but with a vigilante mob on their heels, can they reach the boat in time? They do, only to confront the mysterious, terrifying force.
The Counting House
When a desperate fashion photographer bets his rival he can turn an ordinary girl into a super-model, he has no idea of the consequences -- especially when he falls for her.
Tricks of Love
A dream vacation of a lifetime quickly turns into a hijacking, endangering passengers and crew, on a boat journey down the Amazon River and into the Brazilian rainforest. Desperate criminals storm aboard, pursuing a lost fortune in the jungle. Now under threat, and with food and fuel running low, the once idealistic tourists - now hostages - must use all their ingenuity as their Amazon cruise becomes a descent into a desperate struggle for survival.
Amazon Queen
A Vietnam vet goes to the east, gets enlightenment and becomes a spiritual leader, rescues a hooker,and rescues fallen youth.