Writing

Dan Harris

Born August 29, 1979 · Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA (age 47)

Dan Harris (born August 29, 1979) is an American screenwriter and director best known for working with Michael Dougherty and Bryan Singer, and whose writing credits include Superman Returns, X2, and X-Men: Apocalypse. Harris was raised in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He went to Wyoming Valley West Middle and High Schools and graduated from Wyoming Seminary. Before he received his bachelor's degree fro…

Known For

X-Men: Apocalypse

X-Men: Apocalypse · 2016

X-Men: Apocalypse

MovieScience FictionFantasy

After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

Superman Returns

Superman Returns · 2006

Superman Returns

MovieScience FictionAction

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

Trick 'r Treat

Trick 'r Treat · 2007

MovieHorrorFantasy

Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary · 2005

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary

MovieHorrorMystery

On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.

Until Death

Until Death · 2007

MovieActionThriller

Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.

Speedway Junky

Speedway Junky · 1999

MovieRomanceDrama

A naive drifter runs away from his army father in hopes of making it on the car racing circuit. In Las Vegas, he meets a young scam artist, who develops a crush on him. He is then introduced to a whole gang led by a young hustler. The racer-to-be then gets a lesson in the wild side, getting involved in one situation after another.

Imaginary Heroes

Imaginary Heroes · 2004

Imaginary Heroes

MovieComedyDrama

Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.

Speech & Debate

Speech & Debate · 2017

Speech & Debate

MovieComedyDrama

Frustrated by the hypocrisy they see in their parents, teachers, and the entire school board, an unlikely trio set out to find a common truth and make their voices heard as they revive a defunct school club and take on the world.

Filmography

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X-Men: Apocalypse

X-Men: Apocalypse · 2016

X-Men: Apocalypse

MovieScience FictionFantasy

After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

Story

Superman Returns

Superman Returns · 2006

Superman Returns

MovieScience FictionAction

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

Screenplay

Trick 'r Treat

Trick 'r Treat · 2007

MovieHorrorFantasy

Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.

Executive Producer

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary · 2005

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary

MovieHorrorMystery

On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.

Screenplay

Until Death

Until Death · 2007

MovieActionThriller

Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.

Writer

Speedway Junky

Speedway Junky · 1999

MovieRomanceDrama

A naive drifter runs away from his army father in hopes of making it on the car racing circuit. In Las Vegas, he meets a young scam artist, who develops a crush on him. He is then introduced to a whole gang led by a young hustler. The racer-to-be then gets a lesson in the wild side, getting involved in one situation after another.

Club Kid

Imaginary Heroes

Imaginary Heroes · 2004

Imaginary Heroes

MovieComedyDrama

Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.

Director

Speech & Debate

Speech & Debate · 2017

Speech & Debate

MovieComedyDrama

Frustrated by the hypocrisy they see in their parents, teachers, and the entire school board, an unlikely trio set out to find a common truth and make their voices heard as they revive a defunct school club and take on the world.

Director

Fish Don't Blink

Fish Don't Blink · 2002

Fish Don't Blink

A desperate young couple, on the run from the mob, drop anchor at a remote rundown restaurant in the middle of the desert named the Nautilus. At first, it seems like a great place to hideout but soon they find themselves smack dab in the centre of a family that gives a whole new definition to the word crazy and makes them think that maybe they'd be better off with the mob.

Producer

The Pumpkin Karver

The Pumpkin Karver · 2006

The Pumpkin Karver

After mistaking him for a masked killer, Jonathan fatally stabbed his sister's boyfriend on Halloween. One year later to the day, the siblings find themselves fighting for their lives against a very familiar masked murderer.

Officer Sirrah

MovieAdventureAction

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join Magneto and Mystique to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.

Screenplay