Career
He lives in London. He has co-written several of director Terry Gilliam"s films, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Tideland. In the end, all four writers were credited. Later, Gilliam and Grisoni were involved in a similar dispute when original writer Ehren Kruger received sole cr for The Brothers Grimm.
As an alternative to receiving a writing cr, Gilliam and Grisoni listed themselves as "dress pattern makers".
Grisoni also co-wrote the screenplay for Gilliam"s The Manitoba Who Killed Don Quixote, which was abandoned soon after starting filming. During the production, he met filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, who were shooting the making-of documentary that later became Lost in Louisiana Mancha.
Fulton and Pepe went on to film Brian Aldiss"s novella Brothers of the Head (2006), from on a screenplay by Grisoni that he had started working on as far back as 1984. In 2008, Grisoni directed his first short film, Kingsland #1: The Dreamer, for which he was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Grisoni wrote, an adaptation of David Peace"s quartet of novels based on the events surrounding the Yorkshire Ripper murders.
Foreign budgetary reasons, only three films were produced, with the second of the four novels (1977) left unmade.