Russell Gewirtz (born 1967 in Great Neck, New York) is an American screenwriter, best known for writing the screenplay for Spike Lee's 2006 film Inside Man.
Gewirtz attended Trinity School in New York City before earning a degree in computer science from Tufts University.
[1] After brokering a lucrative real estate deal in 1999, he left New York for several years and spent time in France and Brazil.
It was at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival that he originally pitched the idea for Inside Man to Daniel Rosenberg and became a Hollywood screenwriter.
[3] Gewirtz's second screenplay was Righteous Kill, a thriller starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro,[4] which received mainly negative reviews.