Fortunately, as luck would have it, Herz wrote the American Pie screenplay in three weeks and sold it for $650,000 to Universal. “Some of my best writing comes from pressure,” said Herz in a March 2012 interview with media blogger Todd Chance of Michigan. Herz was one was of the guests during the Waterfront Film Festival in Saugatuck (Michigan) in 2001. While Herz had no part in the writing of the final installment of the American Pie series (American Revolution), he was brought on as an executive producer.