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Dean Devlin is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actor best known for his blockbuster collaborations with director Roland Emmerich, including Stargate, Independence Day, and Godzilla. He is also known for creating the Librarian and Leverage television franchises.
Stargate, released in 1994, was the first movie to have a dedicated website. Dean Devlin co-wrote and co-produced the film alongside director Roland Emmerich.
Geostorm earned $221 million globally on a production budget of $120 million. Despite that gross, Deadline Hollywood calculated in March 2018 that Warner Bros. lost $71.6 million on the film once all expenses and revenues were factored in.
Devlin's mother, Pilar Seurat, was a Filipino actress. He later channeled that connection into Almost Paradise, a series he developed with Philippine media conglomerate ABS-CBN, filmed entirely in the Philippines with a majority Filipino cast, premiering in the United States on the 30th of May 2020.
Dean Devlin's father, Don Devlin, was an actor turned writer-producer who was noted for discovering Steven Spielberg. Don Devlin lived from 1930 to 2000.
Devlin spent most of the 1980s as a working actor, often playing teenage characters despite being in his 20s. He gradually shifted to writing scripts, with his first produced screenplay being Universal Soldier. He then teamed with Roland Emmerich after appearing as an actor in Emmerich's film Moon 44.