Biography
John Fasano was an American screenwriter, film producer and director. Born in Old Bethpage on Long Island, New York, he began his career making industrial films and low-budget horror features such as Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987) and Black Roses (1988), which he also directed.
After moving to Los Angeles in 1989, Fasano sold his first spec script and co-wrote the screenplay for Another 48 Hrs. (1990). He worked extensively as a script doctor on films including Tombstone (1993), for which he received an associate producer credit, Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) and Judge Dredd (1995). His other screenwriting credits include Universal Soldier: The Return (1999), Darkness Falls (2003) and Jesse Stone: Stone Cold (2005). He received a Writers Guild of America nomination for the telefilm The Hunchback (1997). Fasano died in 2014.
