Background
Feldman is the son of Philosophy Feldman, an attorney who became a Hollywood producer and executive.
Feldman is the son of Philosophy Feldman, an attorney who became a Hollywood producer and executive.
Feldman graduated from Harvard University, where he became interested in photography and design. He worked a while as a documentary photographer, then studied graphic design at the Yale School of Art and Architecture.
Early life and photography
He has three brothers, Ken, Gary and Randy. Dennis even worked on Philosophy"s best known, 1969"s The Wild Bunch, with a small apparition on the opening Texas town sequence. Feldman went on to earn acclaim as a still photographer, teaching photography for ten years at both the San Francisco City College and Boston University, and published a collection of photographs entitled American Images.
Film career
Feldman then decided to work on the film industry, first with the help of fellow writer brother Randy, with both doing script doctoring.
Feldman"s first film cr was Just One of the Guys (1985), co-written with Jeff Franklin. Feldman was paid about $330,000 up front for the script and had the option to direct, but eventually the studio picked Michael Ritchie for the task.
Originally titled The Rose of Tibet, it was planned to be "a Raymond Chandler movie with supernatural elements", but the eventual film, released in 1986, became a comedy starring Eddie Murphy. He then had his directing debut adapting his script Real Men (1987) and produced Dead Again (1991), which he also developed the story with Scott Frank.
In 1995 Feldman wrote and co-produced Species, based on a script idea he had in 1985.
He also penned a comic book adaptation of the film by Dark Horse Comics and helped Yvonne Navarro write the film"s novelization. His latest screenwriter cr is Virus (1999), which Feldman contributed some drafts after the ones made by Chuck Pfarrer, author of the original comic.