Career
Among his screenwriting credits are the films The Wild Bunch, Sorcerer, The Brink"s Job, Eraser, The Hi-Lo Country and RoboCop 2. More recently, he was a Creative Consultant for the Chris Carter science fiction television series Millennium. He is also notable for allowing a centipede to crawl over his face in the tunnel scene of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
In fall 2008, he assumed the post of executive producer for the Vincent Doctorate"Onofrio-Kathryn Erbe episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, he took over as show runner/executive producer for all episodes in the series" ninth season.
In 2008, Green was the Head Writer/Showrunner of the television pilot Bunker Hill, starring Donnie Wahlberg and Bridget Moynahan and directed by Jon Avnet. The pilot was not picked up for a series.
In 2010 Green was the showrunner/executive producer of the ninth season of the United States of America Network television series, Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Green wrote the 2015 miniseries adaptation of Killing Jesus: A History.