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In January 2019, Gleeson was commissioned by Disney+ to write The Grimm Legacy, the first in a potential franchise based on the book series by Polly Shulman.

In July 2017, Gleeson began principle photography on his third film as writer and director, Don't Go (2018 film), starring Stephen Dorff and Melissa George. The film is based on a screenplay by Ronan Blaney who shares a writing credit with Gleeson. Don't Go was released in the US through IFC Films on 28 October 2018.

In 2013, Fox Searchlight Pictures commissioned Gleeson to write Tolkien, based on his original pitch, about the English writer and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien. Fox Searchlight and Chernin Entertainment produced the biographical film, which stars Nicholas Hoult and was released in 2019.

In 2008, Gleeson signed with Creative Artists Agency and sold his time travel sci-fi spec screenplay 'The End of History' to Sony Pictures and Original Film. He followed this up with several more spec sales and commissions to studios including Focus Features, Fox Filmed Entertainment, Mattel Films and Paramount Pictures.

Gleeson's next film which he also wrote and directed, the crime dramaThe Front Line, was released in cinemas in 2006 also through Buena Vista Int. Variety (magazine) called it; 'A satisfying blend of crime drama and geopolitical think piece about a Congolese refugee in Dublin, [The Front Line] sustains high levels of suspense while delivering an emotional wallop.' The Sunday Independent (Ireland) commented; 'Gleeson has delivered a terrific film that reminds us what big screens were made for, and it deserves to be a smash.'

A native of Cappamore, Co. Limerick, Gleeson is the third generation of his family to enter the film business. His grandfather opened up the Regal Cinema, Cappamore, in the early 1940s, and his father, Eddie Gleeson, took over the business, opening up several more screens across the south west of Ireland, including the Curzon Cinema, Kilmallock, and the Ormond Cineplex, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. David began his career at the age of nineteen writing and directing non-professional theater in Limerick City with the one-act drama Class Control.