Brian Helgeland

American film director, screenwriter and producer, born January 17, 1961 in Providence, Rhode Island. Known for writing L.A. Confidential (1997), Conspiracy Theory (1997), The Postman (1997), Mystic River (2003), Man on Fire (2004) and Green Zone (2010), and directing Payback (1999), A Knight's Tale (2001) and Legend (2015).