Considered one of the pioneer screenwriters of the action genre, Black
made his mark with his Zwei stahlharte Profis (1987) screenplay. He also collaborated on the
story of the sequel, Lethal Weapon 2 - Brennpunkt L.A. (1989). Each successive script he turned in had a
higher price attached it, from Last Boy Scout - Das Ziel ist Überleben (1991) to Tödliche Weihnachten (1996), and in between a
re-write on the McTiernan/Schwarzenegger Last Action Hero (1993) script.
