Cutthroat Island
After working for Leonard Stern, David Suskind and Daniel Melnick, Norman wrote several features and television projects, including the TV movie "The Challenge" and an episode of the "" TV series. Other screenwriting credits include the films "Oklahoma Crude" (which he would later adapt into a novel), "The Killer Elite" and "The Aviator". In 1995, he was one of several writers hired to rewrite "Cutthroat Island", at the behest of director Renny Harlin.