“There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie.”

American screenwriter, producer, director, and actor

Dean Devlin is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and film and television actor. He is best known for his collaborations with director Roland Emmerich, and for work tied to the Librarian and Leverage television franchises. He co-founded the production companies Centropolis Entertainment and Electric Entertainment. He also appeared as a series regular on the short-lived television series Hard Copy, and his career spans writing, producing, directing, and acting across film and television.