- A native of Highland Park, Illinois, David Marconi was passionate about filmmaking from an early age. After winning several high-school film making competitions, Marconi was awarded an alumni merit scholarship to attend the University of Southern California's film school. After graduation, he landed his first job as Francis Ford Coppola's assistant on "The Outsiders". Following that, Coppola promoted Marconi to production supervisor/2nd unit on "Rumble Fish".
In 1993, Marconi wrote and directed his first feature film, "The Harvest", a visually detailed stylish noir starring Miguel Ferrer and Leilani Sarelle. Shortly thereafter, Simpson/Bruckheimer commissioned Marconi to write an original screenplay, A high-tech thriller dealing with privacy issues titled "Enemy of the State", starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman, the film would gross over 250 million dollars worldwide. On the success of Enemy of the State, Marconi would redevelop Jerry Bruckheimer's television series "Soldier of Fortune".
Marconi also has co-authored three serialized novels with Flint Dille: "Agent 13, The Midnight Avenger", "Agent 13 and the Serpentine Assassins" and "Agent 13 and the Acolytes of Darkness", An action-adventure series set in the 1930's.- IMDb mini biography by: F.J. Trescothik
- [re Edward Snowden] He's not a villain, he's not a spy. He's just a man who saw something that he believed was quite wrong. I salute him for his guts and his courage. And I'm sure there are twenty screenwriters in Hollywood right now trying to track down the rights to his story.
- [re Ennemi d'État (1998)] When Lucas Foster at Simpson/Bruckheimer brought me in, he said he wanted to do a movie about how a guy gets taken down electronically. Behind him on his office wall was a poster of La Mort aux trousses (1959). So I said, 'All right, 'North by Northwest', a guy is taken down electronically, got it.' I started looking around at possible bogeymen, and I came across this book called 'The Puzzle Palace', by James Bamford, in which he pretty much lays out everything that the NSA is doing now and has done for years. It was a massive eye opener. Anyone who was in any way paying attention to this stuff knew that the NSA was a big vacuum cleaner and that they were storing everything. This has been going on since World War II.
- [re Ennemi d'État (1998)] The Department of Defense asked me to come down and speak to them after the film came out. I met CIA guys and NSA guys. I found them all to be very professional. They were very focused on the mission and on defending the country. I didn't walk away with a sense that any of them were malevolent. But some of them also had a very myopic view-here's what you do, and you sit at your computer and you do it. What you have is this machine that's self-perpetuating. It starts to grow on its own, and the more power it gets, the more power it wants to assume. And as a result of the Patriot Act and 9/11, that apparatus is looking more and more at what's going on inside this country.
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