Charles Stephen Haas (born October 22, 1952), also known as Charles Haas or Charlie Haas, is an American

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, and

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Biography

Haas was born in

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, the son of Eunice (

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Dillon) and Philip Haas, who was an attorney. Haas began his writing career with the film '' Over the Edge'' (1979). It was co-written with Tim Hunter and starred

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. He later worked on '' Martians Go Home'' (1990) starring

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. At around this time he was approached to write the script to the film '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch'' (1990), which was directed by

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and produced by

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. Haas also had a small acting role in the film as one of the scientists. Haas later took part in recording the

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for that film, and it was noted that it was Haas's idea to set that film in

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. Haas would later work with Dante and Finnell again, writing the script for and appearing in the film '' Matinee'' (1993), also work with Dante again on developing a script titled ''Termite Terrace'', based on

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' start at Warner Brothers in the 1930s, the project ultimately never made it to the pre-production stages as Warner Bros. chose to make ''

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'' instead. Haas wrote the 2009 novel ''The Enthusiast'', which was published by HarperCollins. He also wrote a humor piece for

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in April 2010.Haas, Charlie. "Seder, the Sundance Movie." The New Yorker, 5 April 201

/ref> In 2022 he presented a new novel, ''Sunland'', as twelve serialized episodes of The Last We Fake fiction podcast.

Filmography

Film

Television

Bibliography

References

External links

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Spelunk
an excerpt from the novel ''The Enthusiast,''

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. *The Last We Fake fiction podcas

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