Mikko Alanne is a screenwriter, producer, and documentary filmmaker best known for writing director Oliver Stone's Vietnam war drama PINKVILLE.
Alanne most recently penned director Renny Harlin's war correspondent drama GEORGIA, and adapted investigative journalist Adam Penenberg's auto safety scandal expose TRAGIC INDIFFERENCE for Academy Award-winner Michael Douglas. Alanne also wrote adaptations of New York Times best-sellers FRANKLIN AND WINSTON and THE LONG ROAD HOME for upcoming films.
Alanne is currently adapting Beryl Markham's classic African memoir WEST WITH THE NIGHT for Warner Bros. and Heraldo Munoz's THE DICTATOR'S SHADOW for Phoenix Pictures.
On the television front, Alanne most recently sold the supernatural drama SERAPHIM to the CW with CBS/Paramount and executive producer Samuel L. Jackson. Alanne's TV credits include the cop drama PRECINCT ZERO for FX and the reincarnation mystery SECOND CHANCE for ABC Studios. Alanne's other teleplays include his adaptation of Steffan Postaer's apocalyptic novel THE LAST GENERATION for NBC, and the time travel thriller PARADOX and the forensic drama THE BODY FARM for ABC.
Alanne also wrote RAMPART: A DETECTIVE'S REQUIEM, about the infamous LAPD scandal, for HBO Films. Because of his research for the film, Alanne was called to testify as a witness in Federal Court.
On the documentary front, Alanne is currently producing SHAC 7, about the controversial free speech trial. Alanne's other documentary films include VOICE OF DISSENT, which caused The Los Angeles Times to call for a reopening of the Robert Kennedy assassination case, and the History Channel's acclaimed TERROR STRIKES MOSCOW, about the 2002 theater hostage siege.
A native of Finland, Alanne graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in film and sociology. An activist for both human and animal rights, he previously worked as a Historical Content Supervisor for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.