Kevin Alyn Elders

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Kevin Alyn Elders
BornKevin Alyn Elders
OccupationScreenwriter, film director, novelist
NationalityAmerican
GenreThriller, action adventure, techno-thriller, military
Notable works Iron Eagle
Simon Sez
Website
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Kevin Alyn Elders is an American writer, film director, and producer whose work includes novels and screenplays for film and television.

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Career

Elders began his career in the 1980s as a screenwriter based in Southern California. In the length of his career, he has sold 23 of his 26 original screenplays. [1] [2] He made his debut with Iron Eagle , a military action-adventure film that predated the similarly-themed Top Gun by several months. [3] Though the film was not a major financial or critical success, it was enough of a success on home video to spawn several sequels, two of which Elders wrote and served as 2nd unit director on. [4]

He made his directorial debut with the 1999 action comedy film Simon Sez starring Dennis Rodman and Dane Cook. [5] [6] He wrote the 2009 techno-thriller Echelon Conspiracy . He published Room 502, his first novel in 2015. [7]

Works

Film

Television

Novels

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