Neil Burger

Neil Berger is a Hollywood screenwriter, producer and film director. Neil began his directing career in 2002, making his debut with the dramatic film Interview with a Murderer. Berger conceived and directed the story of a sixty-two-year-old man dying of cancer who confessed to his crime before he died, giving an interview to an independent journalist. His confession would be a real sensation because he claimed to have shot President Kennedy. In 2006, the director made another film “The Illusionist”. more

Neil Berger is a Hollywood screenwriter, producer and film director.

Neil began his directing career in 2002, making his debut with the dramatic film Interview with a Murderer. Berger conceived and directed the story of a sixty-two-year-old man dying of cancer who confessed to his crime before he died, giving an interview to an independent journalist. His confession would be a real sensation because he claimed to have shot President Kennedy.
In 2006, the director made another film “The Illusionist”. In this picture he told a story that happened in Vienna in the early XX century. There was a mysterious man who called himself an illusionist. He showed the audience unusual tricks that seemed magic. Despite the fact that the story of the “Illusionist” is completely a director’s fiction, some of its details relied on the biography of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria.
A couple of years later, Neil made a film. "Cool turn" . Berger told the story of three soldiers returning on vacation from the front, but flights at the airport were canceled, and the guys took cars and rushed to Las Vegas.
In 2011, Neil began directing the film not according to his own script. The painting got its name Areas of Darkness And she talked about a New York writer who, in order to overcome his creative crisis and personal failure, took a secret drug called NZT. The pill activated his brain to the maximum extent – he became a millionaire, a genius, a writer, and a drug addict. But the manufacture of the pills was suddenly shut down, and now he is forced to produce the product on his own.

There was a problem in the form of those who wanted to get this pill, and the girl of the character who did not want to be with an addict. The picture with Bradley Cooper in the title role grossed over 161 million dollars.