[2] Weiser was Oliver Stone's screenwriting partner on the movie Wall Street, released in 1987 and a cult classic.
"[4] Weiser's other projects include two civil rights dramas, developed as feature films, but made for television.
Murder in Mississippi, a chronicle of the 1964 Freedom Summer movement and the lives and deaths of Cheney, Schwerner, and Goodman, the three young civil rights workers who were killed by the Ku Klux Klan, which aired on NBC in 1990.
Freedom Song, a semi-fictional account of the early SNCC movement in Mississippi, was co-written with Phil Alden Robinson, who also directed.
He wrote the NBC four-hour mini-series Witness to the Mob in 1998, which was produced by Robert De Niro.