After scripting Clear and Present Danger (1994), Zaillian was one of three co-writers who adapted the TV show Mission Impossible (1996) for the screen. This effort, however, bombed in the opinion of the Razzie Awards who nominated Zaillian for the Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million, a dubious honor shared that year with David Koepp and Robert Towne . thefilter
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Graduated from San Francicso State University in 1975 with a degree in Cinema. A bankable "script doctor," a re-write man, he has worked on the screenplays to Crimson Tide, Primal Fear, and Amistad without credit. Also did uncredited rewrites on Patriot G www.imdb.com/name/nm0001873/
