Patrick Melton

Patrick Melton is an American screenwriter, producer and novelist. Film career In 2004, Melton won the third season of Project Greenlight, along with Marcus Dunstan and John Gulager. The television show premiered on Bravo and resulted in the horror/comedy film Feast and two sequels followed, Feast II: Sloppy Seconds and Feast III: The Happy Finish. However, it was Melton's involvement with the Saw series, that brought him worldwide recognition and international box office success. He wrote Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, and Saw 3D for a worldwide take of nearly $500,000,000. Additionally, Melton wrote the home invasion thriller The Collector, which was directed by Dunstan. Melton and Dunstan adapted the graphic novel Smoke and Guns by Kirsten Baldock and Fabio Moon. In the fall of 2006, Dimension Films preemptively acquired a dark and edgy horror/thriller spec script from Melton and Dunstan titled The Neighbor for a six-figures.