God Save Texas
Docuseries. Executive Producer Lawrence Wright, Directors Richard Linklater, Alex Stapleton & Iliana Sosa. (2024)
A documentary trilogy inspired by Lawrence Wright’s book, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State, follows three filmmakers’ distinct perspectives on their Texas hometowns. Richard Linklater returns to Huntsville, to expose the prison-industrial complex from a very personal perspective. Alex Stapleton goes back to Houston to study the intersections of the…
The Looming Tower
Limited Series. Created by Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney & Lawrence Wright. (2018)
Nominated for three Emmys and based on Wright’s Pulitzer-prize winning book of the same name, The Looming Tower traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11. The series follows members of the I-49 Squad in New York and Alec Station in…
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
Written and performed by Lawrence Wright, directed by Alex Gibney (2010)
Premiered on HBO in September 2010 » From the Tribeca Film Festival Program Notes: Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) collaborates with Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright to bring Wright's titular one-man play to the screen. Wright made waves in 2006 with his best-selling book, The Looming Tower, chronicling fundamentalist Islam's rise to power, and…
Noriega: God’s Favorite
(Written by Lawrence Wright, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, 2000)
Articles & Reviews: "The Riddle of Noriega" July 5, 1999, The Los Angeles Times By DAVID LAMB "Double Take: Austin Scribe Lawrence Wright Tackles Noriega -- Twice" March 10, 2000, Austin Chronicle By CARY L. ROBERTS
The Siege
(Written by Lawrence Wright, directed by Edward Zwick, 1998)
Articles & Reviews: "They Saw It Coming" September, 2002, Written By By Richard Stayton