Biography

Gunnar Ryan Wiik (born September 23, 1981) is a Norwegian actor and entrepreneur. Wiik resides in Los Angeles, California. Wiik grew up in the seaside town of Drøbak, Norway. In 2007, Wiik appeared as Jason in the thriller Timber Falls.In September 2009, Wiik co-founded WR Entertainment with James F. Cardwell, Duane M. Eberlein, Alan E. Bell, Michael Joseph Smith, Øyvind Holm-Johnsen, and Steinar Larsen. On May 9, 2011, Daily Variety announced that WR Entertainment (through its subsidiary WR Films Entertainment Group) had acquired the motion-picture rights to all 83 novels in the best-selling Morgan Kane series, which had sold more than 20 million books to date. In January 2016, Wiik announced that he intended to star as the lead role in the planned Morgan Kane films, but later failed his audition.On January 13, 2016, WR Entertainment became a publicly traded company on the Oslo Stock Exchange Merkur Market under the name WR Entertainment ASA. Two months later, a private placement took place.

In December 2016, Wiik resigned from WR in response to a group of shareholders seeking his and Chairman James F. Cardwell's removal from the company. This process was later chronicled by WR investor Jan Henry Løken in VG's documentary The Ballad of Morgan Kane. Wiik stated in a press release that he resigned because of "creative differences." Cardwell was later voted out by the shareholders at an EGM.