Haythe wrote the screenplay of the 20th Century Fox thriller The Clearing. The film was released on July 2, 2004, and was later released on DVD on November 9, 2004. It was directed by Pieter Jan Brugge, and starred Helen Mirren and Robert Redford.
Haythe wrote the screenplay to Revolutionary Road, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Kathy Bates, and based on the popular 1961 book of the same name by Richard Yates. The film was released on December 26, 2008 and was nominated for a USC Scripter Award as well as a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
After, Haythe was a co-writer and executive Producer of Snitch, a 2013 action-thriller starring Dwayne Johnson. Haythe also helped rewrite The Lone Ranger, a 2013 Disney/Bruckheimer-produced re-imagining of the iconic radio character, starring Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp. The script was originally written by Pirates of the Caribbean and Shrek scribes Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot, and had more of a supernatural element with werewolves and "ghost coyotes", which was ultimately toned down in the finished film.
Haythe reunited with Lone Ranger Director Gore Verbinski to write A Cure for Wellness, a 2016 science fiction psychological horror thriller film. He then wrote the spy thriller Red Sparrow and the upcoming musical biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, both released in 2018.
