Screenplays
Olson sold his first spec screenplay "IQ 83" to Dreamworks SKG, produced by Andrew Lazar of Mad Chance.
As a result, he took a year off to write "Encyclopaedia of Hell," a satirical book, and sold the film rights to Warner Bros. through Andrew Lazar's Mad Chance Productions. With Ken Kaufman and Howard Klausner, Olson co-wrote the final draft of the screenplay adaptation of his book for WB under a new title, "D-Men."
Olson collaborated on a number of screenplays: with legendary special effects director Phil Tippet on the screenplay "Veronica's Daughter," with writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait on the screenplay "Sightings" for United Artists, with writer-comedian Rob Schneider on the screenplay "Family Disorder" for Touchstone, with writer-comedian Kevin Nealon on the screenplay "Late Bloomer," with Ken Locsmandi on the story and screenplay for "Bronson Beak," was a contributing story-writer/songwriter for Disney's television film Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension, and adapted the novel "The Man Who Was Thursday" by G. K. Chesterton as a screenplay for Andrew Lazar of Mad Chance.
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