Sam Wasson

In 2021, he and former Los Angeles Times investigative reporter and editor William Rempel filed a lawsuit against the Superior Court of Los Angeles County requesting that the court unseal the 2010 conditional deposition transcript of former deputy district attorney Roger Gunson in the long-running case against Roman Polanski. They were represented by Susan E. Seager of the University of California Irvine's Press Freedom Center. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon initially opposed the unsealing, but later reversed his position.

On April 7, 2020, Paramount Pictures announced that they had optioned The Big Goodbye with Ben Affleck attached to direct and pen the adaptation with Lorne Michaels producing.

In 2020, Wasson co-founded the Felix Farmer Press publishing house with producer Brandon Millan.

In July 2018, FX announced that it had teamed up with showrunner Steven Levenson and Hamilton duo Thomas Kail and Lin-Manuel Miranda to produce a limited series based on Wasson's book Fosse with Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams attached as the series leads. Levenson served as showrunner and wrote the premiere episode which was directed by Kail. Nicole Fosse, daughter of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, served as co-executive producer. Fosse/Verdon premiered in eight parts on April 9, 2019, and went on to receive seventeen Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series, and three Golden Globe nominations, including Best Limited Series or Television Film.

Sam Wasson (born September 24, 1981) is an American author, film historian, and publisher. Wasson's work often explores Hollywood socially, artistically, culturally and historically. He first gained attention with his 2006 monograph on the films of Blake Edwards, A Splurch in the Kisser.

Wasson is the author of seven books. He is the winner of two Meilleur livre étranger sur le cinéma from the Cinémathèque française and was shortlisted for the Arts Club of Washington's Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing, and the New York Public Library's George Freedley Memorial Award. During the course of writing his fourth book Fosse, Wasson unearthed the long forgotten 1961 ABC special "Seasons of Youth” starring and choreographed by Fosse. In 2022, Wasson and Jeanine Basinger were given access to the American Film Institute archives to write Hollywood: The Oral History, his first oral history. His book The Big Goodbye, about the making of the movie Chinatown, received a positive review by The New York Times.