October Road  

GARY FLEDER, director/executive producer
Gary Fleder, who is originally from Norfolk, Virginia, most recently brought John Grisham's "Runaway Jury" to the big screen for 20th Century Fox. His feature film career, however, began on the opposite side of the law, with the blackly comic "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead," produced by Miramax in 1995. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and garnered Fleder two awards from the Cognac Festival du Film Policier. Since then he has honed his skills and kept audiences mesmerized with thrillers such as "Kiss the Girls," "Don't Say a Word" and "Impostor."

Fleder's career as a television director began in 1993 with an award-winning episode of "Tales from the Crypt." Since then he has directed pilots and key episodes of several dramas, including "LA Doctors," "Blind Justice" and "The Evidence." He also directed the Peabody Award-winning episode of "Homicide: Life on the Street" entitled "Subway," starring Vincent D'Onofrio.

Fleder is currently in pre-production on "The Express" with Universal Pictures, the life story of Ernie Davis, the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy and whose NFL career was cut short by leukemia.

SCOTT ROSENBERG, executive producer
Scott Rosenberg was born in Boston and went to school at Boston University. He has written the feature films "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead," "Beautiful Girls," "Con Air," "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "High Fidelity." He also has uncredited rewrites on "Armageddon," "The General's Daughter" and "Spider-Man," and created and executive-produced the Showtime 20-episode series, "Going to California."

Rosenberg (along with "October Road" co-creators Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec) recently completed the script for the remake of the 1967 classic "The Dirty Dozen" for Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver.

JOSH APPELBAUM and ANDRÉ NEMEC, executive producers
Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec were born in New York and have been writing partners for the past 12 years. They have been writer-producers on "Early Edition," "Profiler," "Going to California" and "Fastlane." They also spent three years as co-executive producers on the ABC drama, "Alias."

Appelbaum and Nemec have numerous feature scripts in development, including "Let's Get Harry" and "21 Jump Street" at Sony, as well as "The Dirty Dozen" at Warner Bros.