Alex Tse

Alex Tse

Birth : 1976-05-20, San Francisco, California, USA

Death : 2018-05-01

History

Alex Tse is an American screenwriter who wrote the 2004 gangster film Sucker Free City and co-wrote the 2009 superhero film Watchmen. Tse grew up in San Francisco and attended Emerson College in Boston.

Profile

Alex Tse

Movies

SuperFly
Screenplay
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
Tales of the Black Freighter
Writer
A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost.
Watchmen
Screenplay
In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
Sucker Free City
Writer
The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv (Mackie) is a member of the "V-Dubs", an African-American street gang. Lincoln (Leung) is a rising figure in the Chinese mafia. Gentrification forces Nick's family to move out of their home in the Mission District into Hunter's Point where they are harassed by the V-Dubs. K-Luv's side business of selling bootleg compact discs leads him to enlist Nick's help to bootleg CDs and to negotiate a truce with Lincoln. Lincoln conducts an affair with his boss' daughter Angela (Carpio), a Stanford student engaged to a medical student classmate.
Silent Rain in the Ninth
Producer
Silent Rain in the Ninth is an honest character study illustrating the essential nature of an addicted horserace gambler in one of his days at the track...
Silent Rain in the Ninth
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Silent Rain in the Ninth is an honest character study illustrating the essential nature of an addicted horserace gambler in one of his days at the track...