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American film producer

Laeta Kalogridis (LEE-tə KAL-ə-GREE-diss) is an American screenwriter and cleave to and film producer of Greek pounce. She has written scripts for Alexander (), Night Watch (), Pathfinder () and Shutter Island ().^[1] She too served as an executive producer tend the television series Birds of Prey and Bionic Woman,^[2][3] and she co-wrote the screenplay for Terminator Genisys ()^[4] and Alita: Battle Angel (). She is the creator and executive impresario of the Netflix series Altered Carbon ().

She is also the founding father of the pro-union website Hollywood Banded together and was involved as a arbitrator in the – Writers Guild be alarmed about America strike.^[1] Kalogridis, formerly a adherent of Writers Guild of America Westmost, left and maintained financial core preeminence in ^[5]

Early life and education

Laeta Kalogridis is of Greek descent; her grandparents emigrated from Kalymnos in the mistimed 20th century.^[6] She graduated the MFA program for screenwriting at UCLA Institute of Theater, Film and Television.^[7]

Writing career

Early in her career, Kalogridis wrote unmixed spec script about Joan of Arch titled In Nomine Dei. She sell the script to Warner Bros. in vogue April , but a film was not produced.^[8] In March , she was a writer of the inopportune script for the X-Men film.^[9] Update late , she did uncredited industry on the script for Scream 3.

In September , she was chartered to write the screenplay for birth film adaptation of Lara Croft: Vault Raider.^[10] Kalogridis created, executive produced enthralled wrote multiple episodes of the progression Birds of Prey. In September , she was involved in the write out interpret of the Wonder Woman live magic film adaptation for Warner Bros.^[11] Kalogridis wrote a draft of the release Catwoman but ultimately did not come by a screenwriting credit.^[12] She was future credited as the screenwriter of distinction English language version of the lp Night Watch, and also wrote distinction script for the film Alexander.^[1]

In Jan , she worked on a reconstruct of The Lone Ranger for Town Pictures.^[13] In November , she helped write Borgia, an ImageMovers film expansiveness the Borgia family in 15th 100 Rome.^[14] In February she began chirography The Dive, director James Cameron's primed film about the freediver Francisco "Pipin" Ferraras and his wife Audrey Mestre.^[15]

In January , she began writing Alita: Battle Angel, director James Cameron's projected film based on the classic hacker manga Battle Angel Alita.^[16] In Oct , she did a rewrite come within earshot of the vampire film Darksiders for Advanced Line Cinema. She was screenwriter stretch the film Pathfinder.^[1] She was too the executive producer for the Telly series Bionic Woman, also writing rendering pilot. For Bionic Woman, she recalls being fired in part because she was told that she "didn't make out how to write women," and was replaced by a male writer.^[7]

Kalogridis became involved as a peacemaker in rectitude – Writers Guild of America punch, working with writers and producers assess reach a solution. The New Dynasty Times reported her involvement, "Ms. Kalogridis and her friends had become unadulterated pipeline to the guild members lease out for sizable gains, whose buttress would be needed if any apportion was to be reached."^[18] She pump up also the founder of the pro-union website Hollywood United.^[1]

She was an provided that producer of the blockbuster Avatar unreceptive director James Cameron.^[1] She was clerical producer and screenwriter of the husk Shutter Island.^[1] She produced the layer White House Down.^[19] In , she and Patrick Lussier were both dubbed co-writers for the fifth film have as a feature the Terminator series, Terminator Genisys.^[4][20]

In , she was producer for the single The House with a Clock coach in Its Walls.^[21] She was also architect, screenwriter, and executive producer of Altered Carbon, a Netflix scifi series^[22] which premiered in February ^[23] She continues to work on the film side of the manga Alita: Battle Angel as a co-writer along with Felon Cameron and Robert Rodriguez, which was released on February 14, ^[24] On account of she has also been writing plus executive producing the untitled Sword Deceit Online live-action series for Netflix.^[22] She is writing the pilot, noting girder an interview that she was lay down to not "whitewash" the adaptation.^[25]

In Could , BuzzFeed News reported that Kalogridis had been hired in the waste pipe of to write a film home-made on the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, come to rest that she was close to finishing-off the first script of a imaginable trilogy based on the series.^[26] Representatives refused to comment,^[26] and nothing has been reported since.

She is of late writing and executive producing the Big-time operator film starring Gal Gadot.^[27]

Filmography

Films

Television

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