Scott Alexander (b. June 16, 1963, Los Angeles, California) and Larry Karaszewski (b. November 20, 1961, South Bend, Indiana) are a Hollywood screenwriting team. They met at the University of Southern California where they were roommates; they graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts in 1985.
Their first success was the popular but critically derided comedy Problem Child (1990). Alexander and Karaszewski claim that their original screenplay wa...
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Scott Alexander (b. June 16, 1963, Los Angeles, California) and Larry Karaszewski (b. November 20, 1961, South Bend, Indiana) are a Hollywood screenwriting team. They met at the University of Southern California where they were roommates; they graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts in 1985.
Their first success was the popular but critically derided comedy Problem Child (1990). Alexander and Karaszewski claim that their original screenplay was a sophisticated black comedy but that the studio watered it down into an unrecognizable state.
In 1994, Alexander and Karaszewski persuaded Tim Burton to direct a biopic about Edward D. Wood, Jr.. They wrote the screenplay in six weeks; the film was titled simply Ed Wood.
Their subsequent films include The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon (1999) and Agent Cody Banks (2003). They also did uncredited rewrite work on Mars Attacks! and Hulk.
They wrote a script about Robert Ripley called Believe it or Not....
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