Alex Tse is an American screenwriter who grew up in San Francisco and went to Emerson College in Boston. His first script to be produced was Sucker Free City, a Showtime television movie directed by Spike Lee and released in 2004. Tse has also written the script for Watchmen, a film directed by Zack Snyder to be released in 2009. The screenwriter is currently scripting film adaptations of the thriller novel The Winter of Frankie Machine and the sci-fi short story collection The Illustrated Man.