Education
Before entering the University of California, Los Angeles program, Widen attended Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California.
Before entering the University of California, Los Angeles program, Widen attended Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California.
A student in University of California, Los Angeles"s screenwriting program, he sold his script for Highlander while still an undergraduate. Widen worked as a firefighter for three years. He witnessed a person killed by an explosive backdraft, which became the basis for the screenplay for the movie Backdraft.
In 1995 he wrote and directed the supernatural thriller The Prophecy starring Christopher Walken.