Eric Heisserer

Writing

Eric Heisserer

Born 1970-04-30 · Norman, Oklahoma, USA

Eric Andrew Heisserer (born 1970) is an American filmmaker, comic book writer, television writer, and television producer. His screenplay for the film Arrival earned him a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the 89th Academy Awards in 2016. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Heisserer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Arrival poster
7.6

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

Arrival

2016

Extinction poster
6.1

A chief mechanic at a factory, haunted by apocalyptic nightmares, becomes a hero when Earth is invaded by a mysterious army bent on destruction.

Extinction

2018

Bird Box poster
6.8

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Bird Box

2018

A Nightmare on Elm Street poster
5.5

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

2010

Final Destination 5 poster
6.2

Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and is unleashed after one man’s premonition saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. But this group of unsuspecting souls was never supposed to survive, and, in a terrifying race against time, the ill-fated group frantically tries to discover a way to escape Death’s sinister agenda.

Final Destination 5

2011

Lights Out poster
6.4

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

Lights Out

2016

Lights Out poster
6.4

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

Lights Out

2016

The Thing poster
6.3

When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.

The Thing

2011

Bloodshot poster
6.7

After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine—'Bloodshot'. As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life. But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility to get revenge, only to discover that there's more to the conspiracy than he thought.

Bloodshot

2020

Hours poster
6.6

A father struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Hours

2013

Hours poster
6.6

A father struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Hours

2013

No artwork available
NR

Two teenagers discover they are magically and intermittently swapping bodies. When a disaster threatens to upend their lives, they must journey to meet and save their worlds.

Your Name

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NR

Sequel to Lights Out. Plot TBA.

Lights Out 2

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NR

A woman dives into her husband’s memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself.

Dissolution

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NR

A woman dives into her husband’s memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself.

Dissolution

No artwork available
NR

Described as a survival sci-fi story with shades of The Martian and Edge of Tomorrow. Plot TBA.

The Earthling

No artwork available
NR

A professor of mathematics discovers that 1=0, upending the universal foundation of math and ultimately, the foundation of her relationship with her husband. As they both learn to find new meaning in this enlightened world, they must begin to confront the deterioration of their love, while also helping end the worldwide catastrophic events that her new formula has created.

Division by Zero

No artwork available
NR

A professor of mathematics discovers that 1=0, upending the universal foundation of math and ultimately, the foundation of her relationship with her husband. As they both learn to find new meaning in this enlightened world, they must begin to confront the deterioration of their love, while also helping end the worldwide catastrophic events that her new formula has created.

Division by Zero

No artwork available
NR

Described as a cyber thriller. Plot TBA.

Mysteria

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NR

Described as a cyber thriller. Plot TBA.

Mysteria

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NR

A past-life regression therapist and an agent from the Predictive Analytics department of Homeland Security become unlikely partners when they discover a phenomenon tied to reincarnation, uncovering a supernatural killer exploiting his own past lives.

Simultaneous