Adam Simon
Adam Simon (born February 6, 1962) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. His directing credits include "Brain Dead" (1990), "Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger" (1992), and "Carnosaur" (1993). Simon, along with producer Brannon Braga, co-created the television series "Salem". As a screenwriter, Simon is known for "Bones" (2001), "The Haunting in Connecticut" (2009), and "Books of Blood" (2020). Career. He plays a humorous version of himself, pitching a project and getting barred from the studio lot in the famous opening-shot of Robert Altman's "The Player" (1992). He previously appeared, thinly veiled , as a fictional character in Christopher Guest's film "The Big Picture" (1989) and would reappear in Kim Newman's novel "Johnny Alucard" (2013), where he again pitches a project and becomes the only person in Hollywood standing up to a particularly sinister studio executive. Kim Newman has noted that Adam Simon has "become one of the most oft-cited figures in contemporary Hollywood satire, and those in the know have begun to play the game of Simon-spotting. [...] Remarkable look- and act-alikes for Adam Simon have appeared in a couple of sinister Hollywood satires: Adam Rafkin (Jarrad Paul ) on the cancelled-too-soon TV series "Action", who ruins his emotional and physical health on successive drafts of "Beverly Hills Gun Club" for sleazy überproducer Peter Dragon (Jay Mohr); and Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) in David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive", who finds his entire life - and film project - jeopardised when he considers going against the wishes of backers who represent either organised crime or Hell."