Thick as Thieves

Scott Sanders is an African American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his work with the films "Black Dynamite" and "Thick as Thieves". Scott began his career as a television writer working on such hit TV shows as A DIFFERENT WORLD, ROC and THE WAYANS BROTHERS. His directorial... debut came on the 1999 HBO feature film THICK AS THIEVES starring Alec Baldwin. Scott is also a DJ in Los Angeles, spinning under the name Suckapunch.
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Scott Sanders is an American television producer and theatrical producer. He is best known for the theatrical musical version of Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple, of which he was Lead Producer along with Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, and Harvey Weinstein, for producing Elaine Stritch: at... Liberty, and for his work on numerous musical and theatrical productions. Sanders grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida and was a 1975 graduate of Gibbs High School in Pinellas County, Florida, which at the time was undergoing court-ordered desegregation, and to which he was bused. He was Class President at Gibbs. He is a 1979 graduate of the University of Florida. During college he worked as an intern in the advertising department of the St. Petersburg Times. Sanders began his career at Radio City Music Hall in New York, producing artists including Liberace, Sting, Diana Ross, and The Grateful Dead. He was Executive Producer there for 15 years and has been credited with reversing the venue’s steady decline after its near-bankruptcy in 1978. Sanders brought in rock concerts and popular cultural events including the Super Bowl halftime show and galas for President Bill Clinton.
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