Diane Drake
Diane Drake is an American screenwriter and teacher, and former Vice President of Creative Affairs for Sydney Pollack's production company, Mirage Enterprises. She lives in Los Angeles and is best known for the films Only You and What Women Want. Early life Drake was born and grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. She studied Communications/Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. Career Diane Drake worked for Sydney Pollack's production company, Mirage Enterprises, from 1988 to 1992, rising to the position of Vice President of Creative Affairs. Writing Drake began writing screenplays in 1991. Her first screenplay, Dog Meets Cat, though never more than optioned material, earned her a writing assignment with Hanna-Barbera. She worked on rewriting The Prince and the Pauper, with dogs, in a project that was never produced. In 1992 she wrote a spec script called Him, which sold to TriStar Pictures for $1 million. It was produced in 1994 as Only You, starring Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey, Jr. The movie was remade in China by the Huayi Brothers in 2015. In 1995 Drake wrote a spec script called Ladies Man, in which a male protagonist who works in advertising