1. Alex Tse was born on 1976 and is an American screenwriter and television show creator active since 2004.
21 Facts About Alex Tse
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Alex Tse was one of the creators and executive producers of the 2019 TV series Wu-Tang: An American Saga.
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Alex Tse grew up in San Francisco and attended Emerson College in Boston.
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Alex Tse, a Chinese American, was born in 1976 to a banker father and a teacher mother.
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Alex Tse grew up in the Richmond District in San Francisco.
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Alex Tse went to Alamo Elementary School, Presidio Middle School, and Lowell High School in the area.
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Alex Tse saw Pulp Fiction and was inspired by the film to pursue a screenwriting career.
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Alex Tse worked for under three years producing rap videos and working part-time jobs for Miramax Films and Walt Disney Pictures.
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Alex Tse's work attracted the attention of other independent rappers, for whom he produced videos.
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Alex Tse was encouraged to begin temping and found temp work at Disney, particularly under then-president Peter Schneider.
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Alex Tse learned more about screenwriting by reading scripts, with two noteworthy examples being the onomatopoeia in James Mangold's script for Heavy and the sarcasm in the narrative for Man on the Moon.
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Alex Tse was impressed with his script and encouraged him to write a pilot about gangs.
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Alex Tse developed a script for an untitled project for the singer Ashanti.
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Alex Tse developed a script for a remake of Super Fly for Warner Bros.
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Alex Tse said that the remake "had nothing to do with the original" and that it evolved into a possible film titled Gangland.
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Alex Tse was attached as screenwriter to adapt the following films that went unproduced: the 1951 science-fiction short-story collection The Illustrated Man and the 2005 American thriller novel The Winter of Frankie Machine.
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Alex Tse's major screenwriting debut came when he was a co-writer for the 2009 superhero film Watchmen, which was directed by Zack Snyder.
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In 2012, Alex Tse said he was planning to make his directorial debut with 87 Fleer.
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Toward the end of 2013, Alex Tse was hired by Columbia Pictures to write the script for a film adaptation of the racing video game series Gran Turismo.
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Alex Tse optioned in 2014 the rights to the 2010 graphic novel Tribes: The Dog Years by Michael Geszel and Peter Spinetta with an interest in writing and producing a film adaptation.
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In 2017, the film was in development with Alex Tse executive producing with Joel Silver's Silver Pictures.