Danny Bilson

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Daniel "Danny" Bilson (born July 25, 1956) is an American writer, director, and producer in movies, television, videogames, and comic books. With his writing partner Paul DeMeo, Danny Bilson wrote the movie The Rocketeer (1991), the videogame James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2003), the television series The Sentinel (1996), Viper (1994, 1996) and The Flash (1990), and issues of the comic book, The Flash. Bilson also directed and produced The Sentinel and The Flash. Bilson's scope has been characterized as transmedia. He has adapted comic books into movies (The Rocketeer), comic books into television (The Flash), and movies into videogames (James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing). Bilson's and DeMeo's writing has tended toward action and sci-fi genres, emphasizing more than human heroes and their visceral adventures. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Danny Bilson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

The Flash
7.8

The Flash

After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city.

Release Date2014-10-07

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Episode Count1

Vote Count11312

The Flash
7.4

The Flash

When a bolt of lightening crashes through a police crime lab, a mix of electrically charged substances bathes chemist Barry Allen, transforming him into the fastest man alive--The Flash.

Release Date1990-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count505

The Sentinel
7.1

The Sentinel

The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.

Release Date1996-03-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count48

Vote Count65

6.8

The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade

The Scarlet Speedster teams up with the city's previous superhero, The Nightshade, in two adventures.

Release Date1992-12-31

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count14

6.5

The Flash

A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.

Release Date1990-11-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count72

6.5

The Rocketeer

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.

Release Date1991-06-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count961

6.5

Da 5 Bloods

Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.

Release Date2020-06-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1101

6.3

The Flash II: Revenge of the Trickster

Every super hero has his nemesis - and this time Flash has that murderous mischief maker the Trickster

Release Date1991-09-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count30

CBS Summer Playhouse
6.3

CBS Summer Playhouse

CBS anthology series airing unsold television pilots during the summer season.

Release Date1987-06-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

6.0

Trancers: City of Lost Angels

Jack Deth, the super cop from the future, has put away three centuries worth of time traveling criminals. But Deth's most dangerous collar, the ultraviolent assassin Edlin Shock, has escaped from her maximum security holding cell and won't rest until she's exacted revenge. Meanwhile, Deth is trying to make a life for himself as a private eye in 1988 Los Angeles with his hot-blooded girlfriend Lena. Relationship troubles are just the beginning of Deth's problems when he learns that Edlin Shock has followed him back in time.

Release Date1988-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count21

The Watcher
6.0

The Watcher

The Watcher is an American anthology drama series that premiered on UPN in January 1995, during the network's inaugural season. The series aired Tuesday night at 9:00 p.m Eastern time.

Release Date1995-01-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Viper
6.0

Viper

Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal government to fight crime in the fictional city of Metro City, California that is perpetually under siege from one crime wave after another. The weapon used by this task force is an assault vehicle that masquerades as a Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster and coupe. The series takes place in "the near future". The primary brand of vehicles driven in the show were Chrysler or subsidiary companies. The Viper Defender "star car" was designed by Chrysler Corporation engineers. The exterior design of the car was produced by Chrysler stylist Steve Ferrerio.

Release Date1994-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count47

5.8

Trancers

Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the future's governing council.

Release Date1984-11-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count206

5.6

Trancers 3: Deth Lives

A time traveling cop, Jack Deth, from the future is taken back to the past to be given the task of destroying the Trancer program before it has a chance to get out of control, sending the world into a state of chaos and war.

Release Date1992-10-14

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count57

5.6

Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth

Once again someone from the future has come back to create an army of Trancers, human zombies who do what they're told without question or pause. Now officer Jack Deth, a cop from the future stranded in the past, must once again go forth to stop them. This sci-fi action sequel chronicles his courageous actions as he struggles to save the future. His difficulties are compounded when his boss sends his first wife back from the future to help Deth who has unfortunately, married a 20th-century girl.

Release Date1991-08-22

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count125

5.6

The Wrong Guys

Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks ensue due to their childhood enemies and a group of escaped convicts who mistake them for an FBI unit.

Release Date1988-05-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

5.3

Zone Troopers

American soldiers, led by The Sarge, are stuck behind Nazi enemy lines. As they make their way across the Italian countryside, they come across an alien spaceship that has crash-landed in the woods. The alien pilot is dead, but one of the ship's passengers is on the loose. As the GIs hunt down the alien by splitting into smaller groups, they're not only tracked by the Nazis, but also a whole host of other aliens come to save their stranded party.

Release Date1985-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count56

5.2

Company of Heroes

American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.

Release Date2013-02-25

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count164

5.2

Red Faction: Origins

In the year 2125, Alec Mason led the Martian Colonies to freedom in the hit action game Red Faction: Guerrilla. Now, Syfy and THQ are teaming up to continue the saga of conflict on Mars 25 years later in an all-new Original Movie, Red Faction: Origins. Stargate Universe's Brian J. Smith stars as Jake Mason, son of revolutionary hero Alec Mason (Terminator 2's Robert Patrick) and a Red Faction ranger. Fighting to preserve Martian freedom, Jake encounters a powerful new enemy in a dangerous and mysterious group led by the charismatic Adam Hale (Torchwood's Gareth David-Lloyd) and holding secrets that will rock the Mason clan. Jake must now battle the relentless regime and somehow reunite a family torn apart by war. Red Faction: Origins also stars Battlestar Galactica's Kate Vernon and The Tudors' Tamzin Merchant, and will feature music from Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica).

Release Date2011-06-04

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count75

5.2

Arena

An intergalactic fighting competition between champions of various worlds has traditionally been won by a species much larger and stronger than humans. Entering the contest, a human finds he has to battle against not just his opponents and his self-doubts, but the corrupt system. Far in the future, on a distant space station, the legendary Arena is where the best fighters from every planet come to vie for the championship. But for over half a century, no Earthling has been good enough to be a contender. Until out of nowhere, comes an underdog: the great human hope, Steve Armstrong... and the best anyone's ever seen. He's been training all his life for a shot at the big time, but now he's up against some mighty big muscle: a ruthless extra-terrestrial crimelord who'll pull no punches to make sure he stops Steve dead. In the mood for hard-hitting sci-fi action? Arena will knock you out!

Release Date1989-03-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count62

5.1

Chained Heat

Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after driving drunk and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling lesbian rapists and the guards and warden are no better.

Release Date1983-05-27

DepartmentCamera

JobSecond Assistant Camera

Vote Count65

4.9

Eliminators

A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.

Release Date1986-01-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count58

4.9

Ghoulies

A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.

Release Date1985-01-18

DepartmentCamera

JobSecond Assistant Camera

Vote Count272

4.8

Trancers 4: Jack of Swords

Jack is now back in the future. He had since lost Lena, and finds out that he's lost his other wife Alice to none other than Harris. While heading out for another assignment, something goes awry with the TCL chamber. Jack finds himself in a whole new dimension. He also runs across a different version of trancers. These guys seem to be in control of this planet. Jack manages to assist a rebel group known as the "Tunnel Rats" crush the rule of the evil Lord Calaban.

Release Date1994-02-02

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count41

4.8

Pulse Pounders

In this 'sequel' anthology, the film offers a TRANCERS sequel written by original creators Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo, a new Lovecraft adaptation THE EVIL CLERGYMAN, featuring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, and finally a sequel to THE DUNGEONMASTER.

Release Date1988-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

Human Target
4.3

Human Target

Human Target is an American action drama television series broadcast by ABC in the United States. It is based on the comic book character of the same title created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino, and developed for television by Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo. The seven-episode series premiered on July 20, 1992, and last aired on August 29, 1992. This series is unrelated to the 2010 Fox television series of the same name, also based on the Human Target character.

Release Date1992-07-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

4.2

Trancers 5: Sudden Deth

Jack Deth is back for one more round with the trancers. Jack must attempt to find his way home from the other-dimensional world of Orpheus, where magic works and the trancers were the ruling class (before Trancers IV, that is). Unfortunately, Jack's quest to find the mystical Tiamond in the Castle of Unrelenting Terror may be thwarted by the return of Caliban, king of the trancers who was thought dead.

Release Date1994-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count37

3.8

Trancers 6: Life After Deth

In a return to the groundbreaking original film's premise, Jack Deth is back - traveling back in time and into the body of his own daughter, Josephine, on a mission to save her life and save the world from the most lethal Trancers yet. Jack/Jo must adapt and survive being a girl while avoiding many assassination attempts by more powerful and dangerous zombie-like Trancers than he's ever faced before.

Release Date2002-07-23

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count32

Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection

Dave Stevens created The Rocketeer and reintroduced the world to 50's pin-up model Bettie Page. While carving out his own unique corner of importance in comic book and illustration art, Dave showed the world what it's like to pursue the life of a creative individual.

Release Date2022-12-01

Characterhimself

Trancers

Remake of the 1984 film 'Trancers'.

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

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