Dan Gordon (Writer)

Little is known about Dan Gordon, a figure with a modest footprint in Writer. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.

Works

Highlander: The Series

Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.

Release Date1992-10-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count400

Sidekicks

'Sidekicks' is half-hourlong US action series that aired in primetime during the 1986–1987 television season on ABC. Its backdoor-pilot 'The Last Electric Knight' aired in Febuary 1986 as part of 'The Disney Sunday Movie' line-up on ABC. The series follows young martial arts expert Ernie Lee and his guardian, police detective Jake Rizzo.

Release Date1986-09-26

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count5

Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles

The exploits of the Mobile Infantry squad, "Razak's Roughnecks," during the SICON–Bugs War between a newly united humanity and an extraterrestrial race, known as the "Bugs," also sometimes referred to as Arachnids.

Release Date1999-08-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count22

Highway to Heaven

A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.

Release Date1984-09-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count33

Vote Count184

Dog House

Digby is in the Dog House - literally - and none too thrilled about it. Why should he be? After all, he is a police detective, or was... until a car accident transported his brain, voice and personality into Spot the dog. Digby makes for one wisecracking, opinionated St. Bernard who has a unique perspective on humans.

Release Date1990-10-21

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

Soldier of Fortune, Inc.

Soldier of Fortune, Inc. was a television show created by Dan Gordon which ran for two seasons, from 1997–1999 The show was about an elite team who performed "unofficial" missions for the US Government. During the first season, the show dealt with terrorists and drug lords, and often tackled issues such as patriotism and self-sacrifice. For the second season, the show was renamed SOF: Special Ops Force. Andrews and Sheppard left the show. Dennis Rodman and David Eigenberg replaced them, though their "hip" characters and new plots led many to abandon the show, leading to its cancellation. The theme song was performed by Trevor Rabin. During the second season, a voice-over by Peter Graves was added.

Release Date1997-09-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

Rambo: Last Blood

After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the granddaughter of his housekeeper María, disappears after crossing the border into Mexico to meet her biological father. Rambo, who has become a true father figure for Gabriela over the years, undertakes a desperate and dangerous journey to find her.

Release Date2019-09-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenstory

Vote Count4013

Big George Foreman

Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring and makes history by reclaiming his title, becoming the oldest and most improbable World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ever.

Release Date2023-04-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenstory

Vote Count313

Passenger 57

Airline security specialist John Cutter, finally returning to the job after his wife's death, finds himself stuck on a flight being hijacked by notorious terrorist Charles Rane. Unfortunately for the terrorists, they're also stuck with him.

Release Date1992-11-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1038

Wyatt Earp

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the dreaded Clanton and McLaury gangs.

Release Date1994-06-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count874

The Hurricane

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Release Date1999-09-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1448

Murder in the First

A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.

Release Date1995-01-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count581

The Celestine Prophecy

A spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a worldwide awakening, arising within all religious traditions, that moves humanity toward a deeper experience of spirituality.

Release Date2006-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count73

Irena's Vow

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.

Release Date2024-04-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count67

Gotcha!

A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.

Release Date1985-05-03

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count152

The Assignment

Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.

Release Date1997-09-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count151

Let There Be Light

An atheist goes through a near-death experience in an auto accident before converting to Christianity.

Release Date2017-10-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count66

Tank

After relocating his family - and his prized restored Sherman tank - to a small Georgia town, Sargeant Major Zack Carey butts heads with the local sheriff. Zack doesn't agree with the ways of the local police, and when the sheriff goes after Zack's son, it's time for Zack to roll out the Sherman tank and wage a little war of his own.

Release Date1984-03-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count83

Surf Ninjas

Two Asian-American "surfer-dude" brothers discover they are the long lost princes from a China Sea Island. Part of their inheritance includes magically-induced martial arts prowess and seeing the future. Using their new powers, they act to overthrow the island's current dictator, a despotic madman with a metal face!

Release Date1993-08-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count144

Expecting Mary

Expecting Mary is the story of a young girl, who's had all the trappings of an upscale life, but it's only when she finds herself in a small New Mexico town, in a downtrodden trailer park, that she learns the real meaning of love, sacrifice and family.

Release Date2010-11-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Just Play Dead

When wealthy criminal mastermind Jack Wolfe is cornered by the Feds, he plans to fake his own death and claim the $30 million life insurance payout with his “grieving” wife Nora, while framing her surfer lover Chad for his murder. But Nora is cooking up a scheme of her own: kill Jack for real, frame Chad and keep the fortune for herself. As lies unravel, Nora and Jack scramble to outsmart one another, leaving one burning question: who will come out on top in this twisted game of life and death?

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Showdown

Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for the two of them. At the saloon-hotel run by Adelaide, Shadrach is convinced that one of the cowhands on the Captain McKellar cattle drive to Montana is his man. He takes the job of trail-herd boss to find the killer. McKellar preaches to Jones that he should forget revenge and let the law of retribution take care of the killer. Shadrach's hard driving of the men and his hunt for the killer makes him bitterly hated, and his retribution quest ends in a manner he did not anticipated.

Release Date1950-08-15

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count5

Terror in the Mall

A group of people are trapped in a deserted mall during a flood along with an escaped prisoner.

Release Date1998-07-29

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count14

Miracle in East Texas

Two creative con men romance widows to invest in their worthless oil well during the Great Depression. Hilarity ensues when they accidentally make the biggest oil strike in the world, pitting them against jilted lovers, angry investors and a no-nonsense judge.

Release Date2020-02-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Taking the Heat

When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but before they get there they have to deal with several attacks from killers.

Release Date1993-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4

Nowhere to Hide

Divorcee learns from the FBI that her husband has mafia connections and put a contract on her life. She gets into the witness protection program and falls in love with the agent who protects her.

Release Date1994-10-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Warrior Strong

Bilal Irving, a professional basketball player returns to his small, Northern Ontario town of Dumont. He re-connects with his former coach, and conflict ensues as they both struggle to put their egos and complicated pasts aside to mentor the town’s only basketball team.

Release Date2023-09-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

Dedication

A Marine commander, relieved of duty after a mission gone wrong, must confront her past and prove her worth in a relentless battle against hostage-takers led by a vengeful anarchist's son.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Pruning the Family Tree

Upon the sudden death of their abusive, philandering patriarch, four damaged women are forced to confront the material and emotional wreckage left in his wake while wryly attempting to put both his remains and his memory to rest.

Release Date2013-08-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

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