He is best known for writing the screenplays to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Men in Black (1997), and Now You See Me (2013).
He went to UCLA and majored in Economics while beginning his career as a joke writer, stand up comedian, and playwright.
He then spent three years writing the cult Showtime TV series, It's Garry Shandling's Show, before venturing into feature films in the 1980s.
Solomon worked on an early version of a Universal The Invisible Man remake,[2] with Johnny Depp.
In March 2016 he completed production on Mosaic, a 12-hour long-form TV project for HBO in collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh.