Writing

Danny Bilson

Born 1956-07-26 · Los Angeles, California, United States

​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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Rocketeer poster
6.5

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.

The Rocketeer

1991

Trancers poster
6.0

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.

Trancers

1984

Da 5 Bloods poster
6.4

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.

Da 5 Bloods

2020

Trancers: City of Lost Angels poster
5.8

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.

Trancers: City of Lost Angels

1988

The Flash poster
6.5

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.

The Flash

1990

Arena poster
5.3

On a distant space station far in the future, the best fighters from every planet vie for the championship in an intergalactic fighting competition. After over fifty years of no human contenders, Steve Armstrong emerges having trained all his life for a shot at the title, only to come up against a ruthless extra-terrestrial crime lord who wants him dead.

Arena

1989

Eliminators poster
4.9

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.

Eliminators

1986

Pulse Pounders poster
5.0

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.

Pulse Pounders

1988

The Wrong Guys poster
5.7

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.

The Wrong Guys

1988

The Wrong Guys poster
5.7

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.

The Wrong Guys

1988

Zone Troopers poster
5.4

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.

Zone Troopers

1985

Zone Troopers poster
5.4

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.

Zone Troopers

1985

The Flash II: Revenge of the Trickster poster
6.5

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

The Flash II: Revenge of the Trickster

1991

No artwork available
NR

A modern-day descendant of Caine hopes to turn his estranged son away from a life of crime.

Kung Fu the next generation

1987

No artwork available
NR

A modern-day descendant of Caine hopes to turn his estranged son away from a life of crime.

Kung Fu the next generation

1987

No artwork available
7.0

Michael Payton, career criminal and expert driver, is injured during a heist and captured by the Metro City Police Department. MetroPol wipes Payton's memory and he is reborn as Joe Astor, MetroPol officer on the Viper Project. Astor is the only driver capable of handling the top-secret muscle car that transforms into an armored machine known as "The Defender." TV movie that preceded the 1994 TV series of the same name.

Viper

1994

No artwork available
7.0

Michael Payton, career criminal and expert driver, is injured during a heist and captured by the Metro City Police Department. MetroPol wipes Payton's memory and he is reborn as Joe Astor, MetroPol officer on the Viper Project. Astor is the only driver capable of handling the top-secret muscle car that transforms into an armored machine known as "The Defender." TV movie that preceded the 1994 TV series of the same name.

Viper

1994

Journeys through the Darkzone poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Journeys through the Darkzone

1984