He was born in
New York City. His screen credits include
Wall Street and
W., both directed by
Oliver Stone. Weiser was
Oliver Stone's screenwriting partner on the movie
Wall Street, released in 1987 and a cult classic. He also helped Stone write the film
W in 2008, about the life of US President
George Bush. The dialogue was positively received by
Roger Ebert for not containing overtly "revisionist history." Weiser's other projects include two civil rights dramas, developed as feature films, but made for television.
Murder in Mississippi, a chronicle of the 1964 Freedom Summer movement and the lives and deaths of Cheney, Schwerner, and Goodman, the three young civil rights workers who were killed by the Ku Klux Klan, which aired on NBC in 1990.
Freedom Song, a semi-fictional account of the early SNCC movement in Mississippi, was co-written with Phil Alden Robinson, who also directed. Weiser also adapted the novel,
Fatherland, by Robert Harris, for HBO. He wrote the NBC four-hour mini-series
Witness to the Mob in 1998, which was produced by Robert De Niro. In 2013, it was reported he'd optioned the novel
Three Graves Full and intended to write the script. ==Personal life==