Rick Drew

Cast · Writer

Beginning as an assistant director, Rick worked on such films as Terrence Malick's Days Of Heaven, the original Superman, and Robert Altman's, Buffalo Bill And The Indians. Since graduating from The American Film Institute to pursue a career as a writer/producer, he has written over one hundred hours of television for such series as MacGyver, Goosebumps, Mutant X, Twilight Zone, PSI Factor, Lonesome Dove, The Immortal, and Road To Avonlea, for which his episode, 'Incident at Vernon River' won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program. He has developed five series for television for Universal Television, Warner Brothers International, Ivan Reitman Productions and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is currently developing a one-hour police drama for Global Television. His produced movies include, Life In A Day for Paramount Television, Meltdown and Combustion, for the Sci-Fi Channel, Tell Me No Lies for the Lifetime Network and Inhabited, starring Malcolm McDowell. In addition to teaching screenwriting at the Vancouver Film School, he has contributed articles on screenwriting and filmmaking to international publications and has interviewed such luminaries as: Stephen King, William Goldman, Robert Altman, Ted Tally, John August, Jason Reitman, John Landis, Joe Dante, Joel Schumacher, Guillermo del Toro, John Logan, and Edward Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz.