This screenwriter and his partner, Larry Karaszewski, struggled through several unsuccessful projects before hitting gold with self-described "weirdo biopics" of director Ed Wood Jr. and porn king Larry Flynt.

Born and raised in Southern California, Scott Alexander began shooting Super-8mm films as a teenager, becoming in his own words, the "Joseph Levine-Ed Wood of Palisades High". While attending film school at USC, he met Karaszewski whom he discovered also shared his love for low rent horror films like those of Herschell Gordon Lewis. While an undergrad, Alexander began a script about porn