Alex Tse

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Alex Tse (born 1976) is an American screenwriter who wrote the 2004 gangster film Sucker Free City, co-wrote the 2009 superhero film Watchmen, and wrote the 2018 film Superfly.

He is also a writer and executive producer for the 2019 series Wu-Tang: An American Saga. Tse grew up in San Francisco and attended Emerson College in Boston.

Personal life

Tse's favorite films include Annie Hall and Major League.

In 2006, Tse married Lisa, a graphic designer.

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Career

Tse produced 87 Fleer, a collection of four middle-class students from the Richmond District, after three years of small businesses. The company was captivated by his script and encouraged him to write a gangs-based pilot. Tse had written The Game, a first-story outline for a forthcoming television series by June 2002. The outline was turned into a complete script by the following September, which would later be released as the Showtime television film Sucker Free City (2004), directed by Spike Lee. Tse received a literary award from PEN Center USA for best teleplay, and he was nominated for best screenplay (original or adapted) for the 2006 Black Reel Awards. Tse and Lee discussed the possibility of a film based on Tse's first script 87 Fleer's first script. Tse produced a script for an unidentified project for singer Ashanti. He also wrote a script for a Super Fly (1972) for Warner Bros. and Silver. Tse said that the remake had "nothing to do with the original" and that it had developed into a potential film titled Gangland.

Tse performed uncredited script rewrites for films including House of Wax, Step Up, and its sequel, Step Up 2: The Streets, after Sucker Free City, Tse. He was also hired as screenwriter to adapt the following films that went unproduced: The Illustrated Man, 1951 science-fiction short-story collection, and the 2005 American thriller book The Winter of Frankie Machine were among the ones that went unproduced. Tse's first screenwriting appearance came as he co-authored the 2009 superhero film Watchmen, which was directed by Zack Snyder. He and fellow screenwriter David Hayter were nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Writing for Watchmen. Tse was hired by Watchmen to adapt the following films that were unproduced: The Phantom Tollbooth, a 1961 children's book, and The Traveler, a 2005 science fiction book. Tse said he was going to make his directorial debut with 87 Fleer in 2012. Tse was hired by Columbia Pictures to write the script for a film adaptation of Gran Turismo's racing video game series Gran Turismo near the end of 2013. Tse's work on the following films that went unproduced was deemed by the Hollywood Reporter: a remake of Highlander, a live-action adaptation of the anime film Ninja Scroll, a live-action remake of the anime film Tse, and a film adaptation of the graphic novel Battling Boy by Paul Pope.

The rights to the 2010 graphic novel Tribes: The Dog Years by Michael Geszel and Peter Spinetta, who expressed an interest in writing and directing a film adaptation were purchased by Tse in 2014. With Tse executive producing with Joel Silver's Silver Pictures in 2017, the film was in production in 2017. Sony Pictures acquired the rights to reimagine Super Fly's film, which was based on Tse's script later this year. In June 2018, the remake, dubbed Superfly, premiered.

Alex Tse was writing the screenplay for The Last Masters, a martial arts action thriller that is a US-China co-production between Global Road Entertainment and Tang Media Partners, in April 2018. In the ten-episode drama Wu-Tang: An American Saga, a collection of the American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, was released in October. The RZA and Tse created and wrote the series, which premiered in September 2019.

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